Napoleon Hill was the master or was it really his wife who was the master writer…that’s part of “the secret”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
The Library of Congress conducted a survey asking which books most influenced reader’s lives. Number one, by a wide margin, was the Bible. In second and third places were Atlas Shrugged and Think and Grow Rich.
Napoleon Hill revealed the means of inspiration and achievement. He was also the first to envision the Internet. “The Laws of Success,” was published in 1928. Hill’s Theory of the Mastermind, explained how information could pass from one mind to others through the ether. (Such a futuristic concept, in 1928, is not that far removed from what we now know as the Internet.) His later book, “Think and Grow Rich,” captures the essence of his theory, but fails to expand on the scientific data detailed in the original work, which Hill obtained from Alexander Graham Bell.
Napoleon Hill was a theist, but contemptuous of organized religion. His emphasis on faith was more scientific in nature, rather than mystical. He believed that faith, like sex, was a mind stimulant. Used properly, and directed toward a desired goal, he believed that faith caused a chemical reaction in the mind, which served to release energy and creativity. More importantly, he believed that the opposite of faith, namely doubt and fear, were the great enemies of achievement. He saw them as disintegrating elements, which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it ineffective and self defeating. Even staunch objectivists would have difficulty in finding fault with such thinking.
Quotes you can bank on.
“The emotions of faith, love, and sex are the most powerful of all the major positive emotions. When the three are blended, they have the effect of ‘coloring’ thought in such a way that it instantly reaches the subconscious mind, where it is changed into its spiritual equivalent, the only form that induces a response from Infinite Intelligence.”
(NapoleonHill, Think And Grow Rich, – page 49)
“All down the ages, the religionists have admonished struggling humanity to ‘have faith’ in this, and that, and the other dogma or creed, but they have failed to tell people how to have faith. They have not stated that ‘faith’ is a state of mind that may be induced by self-suggestion.” “Faith is the ‘eternal elixir’ which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all ‘miracles,’ and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!”
(Napoleon Hill – Think And Grow Rich – page 52)
“Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!”
(Napoleon Hill, Think And Grow Rich, – page 66)
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