This last week I waited paitiently for the postman to arrive, The delivery – Napoleon Hill’s First Editions – ordered from Amazon was now 5 days overdue. I had ordered the book as it contained some reprints of Napoleon Hill’s writings from his two magazines “Hill’s Golden Rule” and “Napoleon Hill’s Magazine”. I was hoping to learn some more information to fill The Habit Code’s philosophy.
Here then is a review of the book:
The book contains 236 pages and is a collection of articles first published in Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine (Published between February 1919 and September 1920) and Napoleon Hill’s Magazine (Published between April 1921 and September 1923) with one other article from ‘Science Of Success Homestudy Training Course’ written with W Clement Stone.
Foreword By Don M Green – Don M Green explains a little background information on Napoleon Hill’s life and of what he accomplished.
Chapter 1. What You Need To Know. The book was compiled and edited by Michael J Ritt Jr. a co worker of Napoleon Hill’s during his years with W Clement Stone and the author of Hill’s Biography ‘A Lifetime of Riches: The Biography of Napoleon Hill‘ Highly Recommended Reading. In this chapter Ritt explains some of the language that Napoleon Hill used and some of the events he wrote of so that the following chapters will be easier to read.
Chapter 2 – The End Of The Rainbow – Taken From Napoleon Hill’s Magazine September 1921 – Hill writes about the journey he has taken to reach this point in his life. It is good to get a perspective on the failures of the man as well as the Successes.
Chapter 3 A Personal Inventory Of The Seven Turning Points In My Life – Taken From Hill’s Golden Rule December 1919 – Hill writes about the Golden Rule and also on the benefits of finishing anything that you start.
Chapter 4 When A Man Loves His Work – Taken from Napoleon Hill’s Magazine October 1921 – Hill talks about a 10 times increased return when you devote the work that you do in life to a thing that you love.
Chapter 5 Initiative – From Napoleon Hills Magazine August 1921 – Napoleon discusses the Initiative of his son Blair, and of the ability to find answers using initiative rather than knowing the facts themselves.
Chapter 6 Permanent Success is Built On Hardship and Temporary Failure – Taken from Napoleon Hill’s Magazine April 1921.
Chapter 7 The Magic Ladder To Success – Taken from Napoleon Hills Magazine April 1921.
Chapter 8 The Power of Organized Effort – Taken From Napoleon Hills Magazine June 1921.
Chapter 9 The Master Mind – From Napoleon Hill’s Magazine March 1922.
Chapter 10 Some Interesting Facts Concerning Character Analysis – From Napoleon Hill’s Magazine April 1921.
Chapter 11 Success – Taken from Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine February 1920.
Chapter 12 Your Personal Success Profile Questionnaire – From Science Of Success Homestudy Training Course.
Chapter 13 32 Contemplative Philosophical, In-Depth Reflections. Taken mainly from various Napoleon Hill’s Magazine’s.
As a book to help you fathom out Success and the step by step plan to achieve it, this book will probably fail you, but as an education in the man behind ‘Think and Grow Rich’ it is another must have book. In it you will find the beginnings of works that were re-written for ‘Law Of Success’ and even within these pages you have the ability to watch how Napoleon Hill’s writing mind worked (for example the two passages on The End Of The Rainbow).
The book is Fascinating stuff and recommended if you are at all interested in the man behind Think And Grow Rich. You can see the details here Napoleon Hill’s First Editions
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