Last Tuesday night my friend at home, who drives me home from these lectures, he said, “I’ve been thinking over your very, very brilliant statement, ‘Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. What would it be like were it true? How would I feel were it true?’” And then said he to me, “Here is a statement, a very common statement, but it really fits” and this is what he said, “Try it on for size.” It’s a very marvelous statement. Try it on for size. You want to be (and you name it), something much bigger than you’ve experienced before, much bigger. Well, it’s too big! But try it on for size, and then we can adjust it. We can fit it. Try it on. How would the world see you were you now the man that you want to be? How would they see you? Well, I’m embarrassed, it’s too big. Well, we’ll cut it down, bring it down until finally it seems natural. You do it until it seems natural, when it seems to take on the tones of reality. What’s real to you, what’s natural? Well, try it on for size. What would the feeling be like were it true? And so, you feel that it is natural and it feels natural. From that moment on, things will begin to happen. It’s going to come into this world as a perfectly normal, natural fact.148 ¶25