newly conceived self and if you continue to hold it the day will come when you are in reality that person Shakespeare said assume the virtue if you have it not now let's take this great truth and follow some of its implications in assuming the virtue you are assuming via your imagination but here we must make a distinction between daydreaming and a true mental picture or proper use of the imagination perhaps there is some genie who will drop $100,000 into your lap or overnight provide you with a mansion luxuriously furnished I have never had