![]() ![]() ![]() To play this record for a group will prove to be of only temporary help. The second is that this record was produced for your own personal use, to go with you on your own exciting journey. The first is that whenever you listen to this record, have a notebook handy and make notes as we go along. And right here, let me make two important points. With this as our foundation, let’s talk about Napoleon Hill’s famous 13 proven steps to riches as found in his book, Think and Grow Rich, remembering, of course, that riches or whatever it is you happen to want. By controlling your mind, you can control your destiny here on earth. If you know what you want, and if you want it strongly enough to muster the kind of persistence that simply cannot be stopped, you will most certainly achieve it. So this then is the truth on which Think and Grow Rich is based. It can be strengthened to lead on to unimagined conquests. Cerami wrote, “The truth is that the human mind is as real an organism, as any muscle in the body, but far greater in potential power and like muscle fiber. Wise men have been saying this for centuries. Thoughts are things, incredibly powerful things when mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for their translation into material objects or riches, riches being whatever it is you happen to want. That one may start with nothing but thoughts, ideas, and organized plans. A philosophy based on the fact that riches of every kind begin with the state of mind. The reason Think and Grow Rich has withstood the test of time is because it rests on the broad clean foundation upon which may also be found every accomplishment of man, the clear unchallengeable fact that everything begins with an idea. Unless whatever it is you build is based on truth, you will end with the entire structure falling in, scattered about you like the armor of Homer’s ancient warriors. To begin, we have to understand the simple truth, the principle or philosophy which lies in the supporting structure of this work. He who had been a passenger was now suddenly the captain. The man was now the possessor of the unique, unseen talent for turning dreams into reality, thoughts into things, so-called fate or the idle effects of exterior circumstances were no longer in command. The suffocating and tangling webs of self-imposed frustration and indirection had fallen away and now the way was clear. The man who then stood and walked out into the world was a different, a changed man. When the last page of Think and Grow Rich was read, the hand which put the book down on the table was a different hand. His second important ability was the knack or skill of writing about his findings in such a way that it was instantly understood intellectually, but what is perhaps even more important for this particular subject, understood emotionally as well. He went after the solution to accomplishment in the same way Thomas Edison discovered the solution to the electric light, relentlessly, indefatigably, implacably until the truth which had been there all the time was revealed to him. ![]() Napoleon Hill went after the answers to achievement in the same way a scientist seeks to open to the light of reason, a secret of nature. The first was in the manner in which he approached his subject. He certainly was not the first man to be appalled at the poverty and seemingly endless struggle and lack of direction he saw about him as a boy and as a young man, nor was he the first to write on the subject, but he possessed two unique, highly developed abilities seldom found in one man. Now, what’s the secret of this amazing book? Why has this book out of all the thousands of self-help books remain the one towering giant? I think to understand this, you have to know Napoleon Hill as I do. I’ve sat in richly paneled, carpeted executive offices and listened to world-famous business leaders, some of them old enough to be my father, tell me that everything worked out fine after they had read, Think and Grow Rich. One of my closest friends found the book several years ago and stayed home for three days reading and digesting its material and he then went on to reach the top in his industry. ![]()
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