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    Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on
    the tree, but each apple has just ten seeds. That's a lot of seeds!

    We might ask, "Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few
    more apple trees?"

    Nature has something to teach us here. It's telling us: "Not all
    seeds grow. In life, most seeds never grow. So if you really want to
    make something happen, you had better try more than once."

    This might mean:
    You'll attend twenty interviews to get one job. You'll interview
    forty people to find one good employee. You'll talk to fifty people
    to sell one house, one car, one vacuum cleaner, one insurance
    policy, or a business idea. And you might meet a hundred
    acquaintances just to find one special friend .

    When we understand the "Law of the Seed", we don't get so
    disappointed. We stop feeling like victims. We learn how to deal
    with things that happen to us.

    Laws of nature are not things to take personally. We just need to
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