Here’s an interesting quote by Frank Haddock:

“A point has neither length, breadth, nor thickness. Move it in thought any distance in one direction, and you have the line. Move the line FROM its direction any distance, you have the surface. Move the surface OUT of its plane any distance, you have the solid. Thus you have obtained length, breadth, thickness, line, surface, solid, motion, space, time, number, structure, body, and, in the attention, mind,–and scores of other factors (study out a long list),–by means of that which has no length, no breadth,
no thickness.

The real YOU is that point. YOU move and describe a line of life. This line, repeated, becomes habit, which moved through time, makes conduct, and right conduct, projected through life, yields magnetism.

If you live only on surface I, you are mere animal. If you project, that surface through to III, you are a fine moral person. If you project surface II through to surface IV, you are magnetic. If you combine these solids, YOU are the Ideal Pyramid, “I AM POWER.”

What Frank Haddock is saying here is that everything big starts from something tiny. A point has no size, yet if you move it, you get a line… move the line, you get a surface… move the surface, you get a solid.

From that simple nothingness, all the “something” of the world appears.

The quote says you’re like that point and your choices create the line of your life. Then, your repeated choices become habits and your habits shape your character, which then becomes the force people feel from you.

Live only on the surface and you’re just getting by.

Live through your deeper layers and you become someone with strength, depth, and presence, that solid, steady “pyramid” of a whole person.

That is true magnetism.