The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. Chapter 11, power of the master mind, the driving force, the ninth step toward richespower is essential for success in the accumulation of money, plans are usless without sufficient power to turn them into action. This chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and apply power. Power may be defined as organized and intelligently directed knowledge. Power, as the term is used here, refers to organized effort sufficient to enable an individual to transmute desire into its montary equivalent. Organized effort is produced through the co ordination of effort of two or more people who work toward a definite end in a spirit of harmony. Power is required to accumulate money. Power is necessary to keep the money after it has been accumulated. How can power be acquired? If power is organized knowlede, let us examine the sources of knowledge, infinite intelligence. This source of knowledge may be accessed with the aid of creative imagination, through the subconscious mind, as described in the previous chapters on faith, auto suggestion and imagination, and as will be elaborated on in chapter 13, the subconscious mind and chapte 14, the brain. Accumulated experience. The accumulated experience of humanity may be found in any well equipped public library. An important part of this accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges where it has been classified and organized. Editor's comment, the computer revolution and the internet have had a profound effect upon the quantity of information available and on the ease of access and ability to organize that information. This is the end of the editor's comment, experiment and research. In the field of science and in practically every other walk of life, people are gathering, classifying and organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which you must turn when knowledge is not available through accumulated experience. Here too, the creative imagination must often be used. Editor's comment, to day, because of the computer revolution and the internet, publishing and dissemination of information happens so quickly that there is almost no lag time between experiment or research and the integration of those results into available knowledge. This is the end of the editor's comment, knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be converted into power by organizing it into definite plans and by putting those plans into action. If you examine the three sources of knowledge, you will see how difficult it would be if you had to depend pon just your own efforts to assemble all the knowledge you need and turn it into definite plans of action.