"Think & Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill - Review
 |
| Think and grow rich |
Welcome ! Here is the summary of "Think & Grow Rich"
Napoleon Hill, reveals in this bestseller the method adopted by all those who have made a fortune. Everyone can become rich by adopting thirteen principles of life inspired by this experience. You will discover how to instill the desire for wealth, develop a plan to achieve your ends, and persevere in your determination. Your subconscious, your sexual desire and your sixth sense will be put to use. This method, when followed to the letter, overcomes all obstacles. The power of thought and beliefs is so strong that it can change the course of our lives!
1. Introduction: no one gets rich by chance:
Getting rich is not the result of chance or luck, but the result of a personal commitment to put into practice the advice detailed by Napoleon Hill in this book. The author presents his method as unique and infallible, so anyone can "learn" how to get rich.
Hundreds of famous Americans have revealed that they have built their wealth thanks to the secret of Andrew Carnegie, author of the bestseller: Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller, Edwin C. Barnes, Theodore Roosevelt being the best known in France. The author gathered their testimony to develop the first "Philosophy of Success." Some like Henry Ford had no other education than that contained in this book. All of these great fortunes attribute their success to the effectiveness of the Carnegie Method described by Hill. His advice has never failed anyone and no success or fortune is built without it.
What is the secret of the Carnegie Method? “All success, all fortune, begins with an idea”. Here is an encouragement for those who wish to make a fortune: “If you are ready to receive the secret, you already have half of it” (p. 13). The method presented by the author is universal, because it requires resources that everyone can find within themselves, regardless of any education. The first step in the journey to a rich future is the dream. From the dream arises the desire which allows, thanks to the power of autosuggestion, to achieve the impossible. "Anything that man thinks and believes in can come true."
To have "faith" in our dreams, we must imagine the objects of desire, contemplate them to the point of believing that we already have them. The rest of the journey is only the execution of the precise and concrete "plan" drawn up by the candidate for fortune. Perseverance and the ability to make decisions are two major assets in reaching the end of the road. All that remains is to live as if victory were won!
2. Become rich by adopting 13 principles:
The practical philosophy of success developed by Napoleon Hill consists of 13 principles that must be accomplished in a specific order. Their simplicity makes them accessible to as many people as possible. Those who apply them all always come to an end. What are these principles?
1. A burning desire for fortune is a prerequisite for becoming rich.
2. Faith in our ability to be successful comes from clearing our minds of doubts and negative thoughts.
3. It is possible for us to master our subconscious through the power of autosuggestion.
4. Identify the specialist knowledge that will help you achieve the stated goal.
5. Use your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of our mind which transforms our mental energy into actions and wealth.
6. Plan the actions to take to realize your idea.
7. Don't procrastinate indefinitely when it comes to taking action, know how to make decisions. Better to be wrong and correct than to stay put.
8. Find in yourself the resources that allow you to overcome obstacles and persevere in our initiative.
9. Surround yourself with the best and mentors who support and understand your vision, you can't do it alone.
10. Harnessing the energy of sexual desire helps develop enthusiasm, imagination, creativity.
11. Maintain positive thoughts and words, they are recorded in your subconscious and influence your success.
12. Partner with smart, positive people who share your purpose.
Adopting the first 12 principles allows you to acquire the 13th. It is the sixth sense which translates into a hunch alerting you to dangers and opportunities.
3. The ability to act on oneself: the key to fortune:
To be successful, our worst enemy is the negative thoughts generated by our intimate fears. They flourish in our subconscious, the real master of our life. We can act to control it and free ourselves from its nefarious hold. This transformation comes at the cost of daily efforts to print other ideas, to act on our subconscious, positive ideas, the desire for wealth for example. The best remedies are repetition, meditation, and the association of emotions with thoughts. Once filled with our desires and positive ideas, the subconscious gets to work. It formulates intuitions that express like a sixth sense and which are up to us to grasp and use to achieve the goal.
A keen examination of conscience will take you strides towards wealth.
Before any action, we must understand what usually hinders us in accomplishing our projects. First area of exploration, our way of working. A list of questions given by Napoleon Hill allows for personal examination on this point: "Were my opinions and decisions based on intuition or on careful thought and study? Have I gotten into the habit of budgeting for everything: my time, my expenses, my income, and am I sticking to it? "(P. 104)
Hill makes a list of excuses that we usually use not to do anything. Identifying ours allows us to counter them. Our fears are scrutinized: what clues allow us to identify them? What are their symptoms? How to protect yourself from it? Targeted actions make it possible to overcome them and move forward. The in-depth study of the many success stories allows the author to establish a large number of precise and concrete checklists that are useful in any personal development project.
To acquire the discipline of life which leads to success, perfect self-control is essential. Indeed, how to own wealth when you do not own yourself? To own oneself is to be able to make daily efforts, sometimes unnatural, without any external constraint forcing us to do so. The only motivation comes from within and arises from the desire for wealth.
4. We carry powerful sources of energy within us:
Sexual desire is one of the strongest human desires. Each one carries within him the strong energy produced by this desire. Channeled and directed towards your creative imagination faculty, it can change your life. The author takes commercials as an example. Those with the strongest sexual energy perform better.
Instead of directing this energy only towards the fulfillment of sexual desires, we can use it to charm and attract people who can help us achieve our goal of wealth with a great capacity for conviction. "Young people tend to waste their energy by allowing their sexual emotion to express itself too often," says Hill. This is why success rarely appears before the age of 40. "Most human beings have never learned that sexual energy can be used for creative purposes" (p. 153). When they experience it, it sets the stage for success.
Belief in the existence of your sixth sense is necessary to achieve wealth. This stage is the top of the path. While it is not possible to explain how the sixth sense works, it can be learned by adopting Hill's advice. Only experience makes us aware of its significance. Those who are successful are guided by "an inner voice". This voice always carries them towards success.
Our brains are the other great ally of success. Hill believes it works like a radio station that picks up and transmits waves. These waves are thoughts. They allow us to communicate with those around us without making speech noises. Positive and negative waves are transmitted and generate influences. A person with positive thoughts will influence your own state of mind. Hence the importance of surrounding yourself well. Emotions increase the ability of thought transmission. When two people emotionally desire the same goal, they attract each other and their energy is increased tenfold to face difficult times, overcome obstacles, sometimes setbacks, and persevere on the path to success.
5. We need others to be successful:
To be successful, therefore, we must surround ourselves with people who share our quest. We can promote this context by choosing this or that company. A stimulating, positive, empathetic work team will be a major asset. Surrounding yourself with lazy, depressed, pessimistic, jealous people will tend to steer you away from success. You risk imitating them by osmosis and giving up your desires.
Collective intelligence, produced by a "collective brain" is another key to success. It is the synthesis of intelligence and the experience of a group of people whose only thing in common is to achieve their goals. They meet regularly, take on challenges and solve problems together. Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist who encouraged Hill to write this textbook on the philosophy of success, had his own group of "geniuses." Henry Ford regularly brought together Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and other brilliant minds.
Behind every man's success is a woman. “The desire to please is the greatest motivation. Before the dawn of civilization, the hunter who wanted to please a woman tried to distinguish himself by bringing back more game than others. The nature of man has not changed in this regard. Today's “hunter” does not bring home the remains of wild animals, but manifests his desire to be pleasing to his wife by offering her nice clothes, a car, money. "(P. 161) If the only avowed goal presented by the author is that of wealth, the unconscious motive would be different.
Imagination is another great player in success, there are two types. The first, synthetic imagination, creates new concepts on the basis of existing ideas. Creative imagination makes it possible to create from nothing. The meeting between the two is the condition for success. It is done in particular through meetings and fruitful collaborations between people with complementary profiles. “The story of almost every big fortune began when an idea maker and idea seller met and worked together. Carnegie surrounded himself with men responsible for accomplishing what eluded him, men who forged ideas, made them come true, thus building his fortune and that of his collaborators.
6. Conclusion:
Think & Get Rich published in 1937 has sold over 70 million copies to date.
To develop his work, Hill spent much of his life studying the lifestyles of the great American fortunes. He bases the authority of his claims on their experience and does not hesitate to present his method as infallible. A man who burns a burning desire for wealth can have whatever he wants, provided he respects the principles set out by the author.
Think & Get Rich started two types of literature: self-help and motivational books, and get-rich-quick. Despite the proliferation of works in these fields, it remains the benchmark of the genre.
Comments
Post a Comment