This week as we have been reviewing earlier parts of the Master Key lessons, I am delighted to notice the changes and growth over the past several months.

After listening to Master Key Lesson Nine on Monday and Lesson Ten on Tuesday, I continued each day with the next lesson in sequence, and it has been an insightful study.

History is an amazing construct. For example, currently we are in the end of January 2026. We are a quarter of the way into this century, yet to people who were born after the turn of the century, there is little awareness of the world before their birth.

They wonder what the big deal was about Y2K shutting down all the computers around the world, and go back to their smart watches and devices that had previously had only been suggested in Dick Tracy comics.

People tend to think of things that they know as always having been that way. Cell phones and the ability to text or call someone anywhere in the world are taken for granted today, and our ability to remember a cellular phone the size of a briefcase, a portable computer the size of a suitcase, a landline that was affixed to the wall of the kitchen give away our age.

I remember one day when my teenage son argued with me about a truck. I had called it a Dodge Ram, and being quick to correct his mom like most teenagers are, he informed me it was not a Dodge, but that Ram was the make of the truck.

In my wisdom, I laughingly explained that it wasn’t always that way, and that Ram previously had been a division of Dodge. He didn’t believe me at first, but once he Googled it and verified it online, he finally had to accept that I did have more knowledge and experience about it than he did.

We grew up going to the library and researching with encyclopedias, and now information and the Internet are at our fingertips.

Master Key 12.23 explains”

“The mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it. This explains why it is so difficult for us to receive or appreciate an entirely new idea; we have no brain cell capable of receiving it. We are therefore incredulous; we do not believe it.” Charles Haanel, Master Key System

We have been using these principles to learn the power of our thoughts, concentration, persistence, and creativity, but this week I have seen this thought from a new perspective.

Not only do our brain cells need to be developed to receive new ideas, other people are not able to understand what we are doing because they do not yet have the brain cells capable of receiving or believing.

I am an idea person. Now, I am the first to say they are not all good ideas. I love problem solving and having a challenge. I will think and evaluate, and then start unraveling the situation like a tangled mess of string.

Often I will propose a suggestion, and someone with more knowledge in a discipline like electricity or physics or aerodynamics will explain why that suggestion is not feasible. Accepting the input as new learning, I move on to the next possible solution.

What has puzzled me in the past is when I have a marvelous idea and passionately share it with someone I expect to share my excitement about it, but there is little or no reaction. It is like they just can’t see the potential.

Other people are so small-minded it is like they have blinders on. Why continue to do something in a limited way when there is vast abundance and wide open possibilities? Sadly some people seem unable to see beyond the familiar not because their perspective has not yet expanded.

When various scientific discoveries were made, it wasn’t that they suddenly became that way. They were always that way; man’s finite mind just did not yet have the capacity to realize it. The atomic structure of objects was always there; we just couldn’t see it.

The world was round before anyone decided it was flat or it was proven to be round. The process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation is experienced by everyone whether they understand it or not. Matthew 5:45 says:

“For He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” The Bible

The key is to be able to focus our thoughts, draw conclusions, and intentionally create brain cells. The introduction to Part Eleven states

“Remember that while every effect is the result of a cause, the effect in turn becomes a cause, which creates other effects, which in turn create still other causes, so that when you put the law of attraction into operation you must remember that you are starting a train of causation for good or otherwise which may have endless possibilities.” Charles Haanel, Master Key System.

As we create new brain cells and have new ideas, the effect becomes the cause, and as this train keeps going, we grow.

Not everyone will be able to understand what we are doing, because the capacity to receive new ideas develops over time. James Allen said:

“He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.” James Allen

Sometimes true growth requires us to think in secret, even when it means outgrowing the familiar.