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May 23, 2008 at 1:50 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie
Having read all of Napoleon Hill’s books, his magazines and other peoples ideas on the Principles Of Success within Think and Grow Rich, I’ve finally come to a conclusion of what Hill is was so eloquently saying.
There are two major principles within Think And Grow Rich that stand out far and above anything else mentioned.
In fact, if you read between the lines, and sometimes between the books (i.e. read some of Hill’s earlier and later works) Hill leaves some clues to what the Key parts of his philosopy are.
Now, Hill states that it is better if you discover the secret yourself, and I believe that to be true. I’ve seen so many different answers to the Carniegie secret that what’s important is that you try to find it for yourself. You get such an emotional boost when you discover it for yourself that it can be the motivator to change your life from that moment on.
If on the other hand you’ve read Think and Grow Rich several times and still seem to miss the point then continue to the end of this post.
Before you do though, think about this. Even though Napoleon Hill interviewed 500 of the worlds richest people, and also thousands of others who were not rich, it took him many years to distill down the formula of what it is that makes someone a success. He also DID NOT practice what he preached. He did leave a few clues about the REAL motivating factors that cause people to succeed.
He left some clues to it in his many books. What bugs me is that he didn’t bring these to the attention of people. Sorry, I should state that He DID bring these to people’s attention, but they were only passing references to the one true thing that I feel allows people to become successful, and to why only a tiny percent of people ever discover it.
Now if you want my explanation of Napoleon Hill’s ‘Secret’ Then Read the following post.
http://www.thehabitcode.com/2008/05/16/the-carnegie-secret/
May 16, 2008 at 3:04 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie
Ok, So you are here to discover the Andrew Carnegie Secret the Famous Industrialist Andrew Carnegie told to Napoleon Hill in their Interview at Carnegie’s house in 1908. If NOT I suggest you CLOSE THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY.
Napoleon Hill States that it is better to discover the secret for yourself. If you have read the book a few times and still can’t find the answers then read on!
Note that this is only my personal interpretation, but it is based on a four year study of Napoleon Hill’s writings.
Napoleon Hill was a young newspaper reporter, sent on an assignment to interview Andrew Carnegie, who was the richest person in the world at the time.
Although those that know what was actually said in the interview are no longer with us, from reading Napoleon Hill’s Work you get some of the clues to the philosophy, and to what parts are the keystones to the whole philosophy.
Here are just some of the clues.
1: In Think and Grow Rich - “The Master Mind principle, or rather the economic feature of it, was first called to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, over twenty-five years ago. Discovery of this principle was responsible for the choice of my life’s work.“
2: Throughout Think And Grow Rich - The stories that Hill uses contain obvious use of The Master Mind Principle.
* Andrew Carnegie and his staff of 50 men. Experts in their own field.
* Napoleon Hill and his Son learning to hear again. (remember a mastermind can be achieved with just 2 minds)
* The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence.
* Henry Ford and his masterly use of a master mind to supply him specialized knowledge.
* The formation of United States Steel Corporation by Charles M. Schwab.
* The Story Of Gandhi.
* Napoleon Hill’s Imaginary Master Mind in the chapter on the sixth sense.
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“Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either consciously, or unconsciously, employed the ‘master mind’ principle.”
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3. In Law Of Success - “In This introduction you will find a description of a newly discovered law of psychology that is the very foundation stone of all outstanding personal acheivements. I refer to this as the Master Mind”
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” Many a man who never knows the real source of his success, is made by his wife, through application of the Master Mind.”
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“It is believed by many scientists…that the law of the master mind is the basis of practically all of the more important achievements resulting from group or cooperative effort”
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“Nearly twenty years ago I interviewed Mr. Carnegie for the purpose of writing a story about him. During the interview I asked him to what he attributed his success. With a merry little twinkle in his eyes he said:
“Young man, before I answer your question will you please define your term ’success’?”
After waiting until he saw that I was somewhat embarrassed by his request he continued:
“By success you have reference to my money, have you not?”
I assured him that money was the term by which most people measured success, and he then said:
“Oh, well - if you wish to know how I got my money - if that is what you call success - I will answer your question by saying that we have a master mind here in our business, and that mind is made up of more than a score of men who constitute my personal staff of superintendents and managers and accountants and chemists and other necessary types.
No one person in this group is the master mind of which I speak, but the sum total of the minds in the group, co-ordinated, organized and directed to a definite end in a spirit of harmonious co-operation is the power that got my money for me. No two minds in the group are exactly alike, but each man in the group does the thing that he is supposed to do and he does it better than any other person in the world could do it.”
Then and there the seed out of which this course has been developed was sown in my mind, but that seed did not take root or germinate until later. This interview marked the beginning of years of research which led, finally, to the discovery of the principle of psychology described in the Introductory Lesson as the Master Mind.
I heard all that Mr. Carnegie said, but it took the knowledge gained from many years of subsequent contact with the business world to enable me to assimilate that which he said and clearly grasp and understand the principle back of it, which was nothing more nor less than the principle of organized effort upon which this course on the Law of Success is founded.
Carnegie’s group of men constituted a Master Mind and that mind was so well organized, so well co-ordinated, so powerful, that it could have accumulated millions of dollars for Mr. Carnegie in practically any sort of endeavor of a commercial or industrial nature. The steel business in which that mind was engaged was but an incident in connection with the accumulation of the Carnegie wealth.
The same wealth could have been accumulated had the Master Mind been directed in the coal business or the banking business or the grocery business, for the reason that back of the mind was power - that sort of power which you may have when you shall have organized the faculties of your own mind and allied yourself with other well organized minds for the attainment of a definite chief aim in life.”
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Within Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill states that there are TWO parts to the secret. Well, my understanding on that is that you must have a Definite Cheif Aim. This DOES NOT need to be your final life’s goal. It just needs to be a normal goal. The big secret is that you must get emotionally attached to it.
“Big Deal” - I hear you say.
This is where I think most people fall down on the whole Think and Grow Rich formula. You must get emotional about your goal.
Now, I’m not talking about getting a bit excited. I’m not talking about urging, or wishing, shouting, screaming or even jumping up and down emotional. I mean you have to get emotional “as if someone had tied a concrete ball around your neck and thrown you into the Fishermans Wharf” emotional.
On a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being drowning) The closer you are to a 10 the better. It depends on your DESIRE. How much you want something. A 1 is when your just wishing for something, because it might be nice to have. A 10 is when your life depends on it.
When you think about it…when you really think about the Secret in Think and Grow Rich, it is all about your subconscious. Well , not just yours, but the subconscious of your Master Mind group too.
The reason you need to get emotional is this - ONLY Emotionalized thoughts have any ACTION influence upon the subconscious mind. The more Emotion you can mix with a thought, the more your subconscious will take action on that thought.
This can be achieved SLOWLY using the principle of AUTOSUGGESTION Or it can happen quickly such as when having a breakdown, crisis, accident or even when being super emotionally charged.
A Perfect Example
For an example that shows the secret in all it’s glory I refer back to a story that Napoleon Hill tells in Law Of Success. It starts with Napoleon Hill making a trip to Lumberport, West Virginia. At the time of his visit the interurban electric train line did not make it all the way to Lumberport, but stopped three miles away. The remainder of the distance had to be covered by foot. Unfortunately that afternoon the rains came down and Napoleon Hill had a dreadful long trudge through deep yellow mud, to get to his destination.
Now imagine if you will the emotion and the state of mind as Nap Hill dragged himself three miles through the pouring rain, and mud.
Do you think he was emotionally charged?
Absolutely! With anger, admittedly, but he was probably boiling up this emotion for an hour or more.
When he eventually reaches the town of Lumberport, sodden, muddy and exhausted, he bumps into the cashier of the Lumberport Bank and strikes up a conversation as to why the line has not been built
To cut a long story short Napoleon Hill gets so het up about the fact that the trolley line does not come all the way into the town of Lumberport that he finds out the reasons why there is no line into town. He then sets his Definite Major Purpose there and then - To get the streetcar line built. This would be no mean task - because the cost of building the line and bridge was un-economical. Or so it seemed.
Now, did Napoleon Hill go to his hotel and use Autosuggestion to get his subconscious mind working. NO!. (His subconscious was already on the case because he was EMOTIONAL about the cause) He made plans there and then and within 24 hours had got together a MASTER MIND of the towns People, The Mayor, The Divisional Superintendent of The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. After meetings with all concerned he Convinced the three main parties involved that it was in their interests to get the line built (again USING The MASTER MIND Principle). Within 3 weeks the contracts were signed. Within Two Months construction had begun, and three months after that, the first streetcars were running into Lumberport! Amazing.
So, in conlusion the major parts of the Carnegie Secret are as follows:
1. Convincing YOUR Subconcious Mind Of a Goal or Definite Chief Aim.
2. Convincing The Subconscious Mind of your MASTER MIND group to accomplish your goal.
ALL Other parts of the philosophy are to reinforce these two ideas and act as a feedback system.
January 15, 2008 at 3:08 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Napoleon Hill
You know the feeling, I’m sure…
…when you start a conversation with someone, and then deep down, something inside you just clicks. Without a word being uttered the person you’re talking too feels it too. A strange Primeval “deep in the soul” kind of feeling when your mind ‘connects’ with another person’s.
They somehow know what you’re about to say. Your thought paths converge. You’re both completely absorbed in the conversation. A feeling of confidence washes over you and time no longer exists. In this absorbed state of mind hours will pass you by as quickly as they ever have. I suppose for want of a better term, you could call it Empathic Hypnosis, as you are both taken into a trance like state.
This “Empathic Hypnosis” is what is behind the power of Napoleon Hill’s Master Mind Theory. Producing this ‘connection’ between two people is hard enough, but when you add in more minds to form a group of three or more, the fine balancing act between the minds in the group gets harder, logarithmically it seems.
Let’s first get back to this Empathic Hypnosis theory and try and work out what it actually is.
I’ll explain that in the next update soon.
November 26, 2007 at 5:24 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, What Are Habits, Napoleon Hill
Cosmic Habitforce. What is it really?
Napoleon Hill describes it so:
“Cosmic Habitforce is the greatest of all natural laws. It is Nature’s comptroller through which all other natural laws are coordinated.”
However you think the universe was created, you cannot deny the underlying march of time and the precise way that all things within the universe seem connected. The creation of stars, galaxies, planets and ultimately life seems to be on automatic pilot. Whether you believe in a God or not you cannot deny the sheer beauty of the way the laws of nature work and how they all seem to mesh perfectly, stopping for nobody.
Nothing is needed to keep the universe on it’s course, it does so without a care, as if it was a clock so perfectly ballanced, that it needed the mere first winding to set it on it’s way.
As nature set it’s physical laws it also set it’s biological ones, the absolute continuation of life and how it evolves to match any change in it’s surroundings, again, automatically, and without any external help. Habit is a neccessity of life, and habitation seems to be a mechanism where the changes in an environment for a species causes a habit to form. This habit formation causes brain patterns to be hard wired, and this in turn causes habits to become heredetery. The passing of one habit to the next generation can help the next generation to survive, it allows for changes in evolution.
Cosmic Habitforce is the law that fixes habits. It is the conductor that keeps the universe in time but changing all the time, making sure that everything evolves, that night follows day, that oaks will come of acorns, that life will evolve and thrive to it’s natural environment.
November 7, 2007 at 11:20 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Napoleon Hill
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 acheive 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
July 17, 2007 at 1:05 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Napoleon Hill
If you take an interest in Self Improvement then you will realize that it is a continuous process and success cannot be acheived through reading just one self help book.
One habit that Napoleon Hill discovered successful people practice was what he dubbed R2A2. To gain the benefits you:
Recognize - Recognize a principle, technique or improvement that will benefit you.
Relate - Relate the improvement to your beliefs, experience, business or life.
Assimilate - Assimilate the improvement into your daily routine.
Apply - Take action and make the Improvement a Habit.
June 29, 2007 at 10:16 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill’s Famous 17 Principles of Success…
If you do some research, and find out about his 17 Principles, what you are about to read may suprise you.
Hill didn’t seem to keep to the same 17 principles, In fact, from my research up till this point I’ve counted no less than 38 different Principles that he’s used throughout his books and publications.
There are a core number that Hill refers to in every publication I’ve read.
But the rest he seemed to pick sometimes calling it a different name, but meaning the same thing such as:
Pleasing Personality sometimes called Attractive Personality
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Learning From Defeat sometimes called Profiting By Failure or Learning From Adversity and Defeat
Other times throwing in a completely new principle such as Positive Mental Attitude as he became acquainted with W. Clement Stone.
I’m still waiting for a couple more books to arrive before I publish all the different principles Hill came out with.
Let me know if you find any that are not in Hills more famous books Think and Grow Rich and The Law Of Success
April 5, 2007 at 2:23 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie
Reading through one of Napoleon Hill’s books “How To Raise Your Own Salary” I come to a chapter about Learning From Defeat.
The Book is a breakdown of what was said between Hill and Carnegie during their meetings in 1908. In my search for confirming the link between Personal development, success and habit I am trying to link up as many connections as I can and here, in this book is one great big humdinger of a connection.
I quote…
Napoleon Hill: “From what you say about habits, I reach the conclusion that Success is a habit”
Andrew Carnegie: “Now you are getting the idea! Of course success is a habit”
March 7, 2007 at 11:45 am · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Habit Quotes, Napoleon Hill
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.” - Napoleon Hill.
Napoleon Hill. He knew the importance of Habit.
January 17, 2007 at 4:58 pm · Filed under Napoleon Hill
In the original version of The Law Of Success, Napoleon Hills Philosophy of success contained 15 principles. The Master Mind was put down as an introduction to the whole philosophy and not included as one of the principles but as an all encompassing method of gathering the skills and tapping into the unconcious minds of it’s participants.
Eventually The principle of the Master Mind was installed as the first of the prionciples of The Law Of Success, as below:
1. The Master Mind
2. A Definite Chief Aim
3. Self Confidence
4. The Habit Of Saving.
5. Initiative And Leadership.
6. Imagination.
7. Enthusiasm.
8. Self Control.
9. The Habit Of Doing More Than Paid For.
10. A Pleasing Personality.
11. Accurate Thought.
12. Concentration.
13. Co-Operation.
14. Profiting By Failure
15. Tolerance.
16. The Golden Rule
Eventually Napoleon Hill came to believe that Cosmic Habitforce, which he sometimes referred to as the Universal Law, was the final lesson in the course that finally took him 20 years to complete. By then Cosmic Habitforce was part of the whole philosophy and given 17th place in the table.
Hill spoke of the Cosmic Habitforce as the Greatest Of All Natural Laws.
“Cosmic Habitforce is the medium by which every living thing is forced to take on and become part of the environmental influences in which it lives and moves.”
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