PART TWO

RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE

“YOUR FUTURE IS CREATED BY WHAT YOU DO TODAY, NOT TOMORROW.”

—ROBERT KIYOSAKI, ENTREPRENEUR

Diamonds are valuable because of their unique physical and chemical properties. And yet diamonds are just carbon in its most concentrated form. That’s it—carbon, one of the most common elements in the world and a fundamental building block of all living organisms. Did you know the human body is 18 percent carbon?

Carbon is the same element that makes up graphite, a common substance (think pencil lead) with properties very different from diamond. Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man; graphite is one of the softest. Diamond is transparent; graphite is opaque. Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator; graphite ...

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