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With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.
(46) Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts---and reveal its erroneous nature. Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and (47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that?”
(46) 艾的贡献在于他抓住了一个我们都很认同的假说，并揭示了它的错误本质，这个假说就是：因为我们不是机器人，所以我们能够控制自己的思想。因为我们大多数人都认为意识是和物质分离的，所以我们以为可以将想法隐藏起来,不让它们影响我们；这让我们能够做到，这样想却那样做。但艾认为，潜意识和显意识能产生同样多的行为，而且，(47)尽管仅通过显意识我们或许就可以维持“控制”这种错觉，但是实际上，我们却总是遇到这样一个问题:“为什么我无法让自己做成这件事情或者实现那个目标呢?”
Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded: “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t “get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.

由于愿望和意志会因为那些与愿望不一致的想法的出现而遭到破坏，艾得出了一个结论:“我们感兴趣的不是我们渴望得到的东西，而是我们自己。”成就之所以出现，是因为作为一个人你体现了外在的成功品质；你不是"获得”成功，而是"变得”成功。意识与物质之间并没有鸿沟。
Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” (48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
艾的这本著作名声大噪的部分原因在于书中提出了“环境不能造就一个人，只能彰显一个人”这一论点。(48)这一说法似乎是为忽视需要帮助的人，为剥削的存在，还有为上层人士的优越和下层人士的卑微作出了合理解释。
This, however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fat, (49) circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation. Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.