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“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.
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.”
I told in my post the other day how I’d ordered Benamin Franklin’s Autobiography and I’m glad to say that they were delivered by amazon in their normal prompt way. What I didn’t tell you was that I also ordered Napoleon Hill’s Law Of Success. This book was the actual culmination of all the long years of study that Napoleon Hill had so studiously undertaken for Andrew Carnegie interviewing over 500 wealthy and brilliant people for the best part of twenty years.
Published in 1928 in a set of eight volumes, it is a monument to Personal Development. I can feel in my bones that I’m about to partake on a great adventure of discovery and I can see no other option but to study all of Hill’s works. I know of no other person that would have spent the amount of time Hill did to get the information he did. Heck, half of the people he’d interviewed had died by the time he’d published his work!.
I had a vested interest to read “The Law Of Success” (LOS) because of Napoleon Hills “Think And Grow Rich” (TGR). In TGR Hill plainly states in several chapters of how controlling Habits is a fundemental part of success.
I’ve only been flicking through LOS but Already Two chapters have the word Habit in the title. (The copy I’ve got is the updated 21st Century Edition, aparently LOS was originally 15 chapters long. This is 17 ).
Here is a quote that just sends shivers down my spine too:
“The word Habit is an important word in connection with this philosophy of individual acheivement, for it represents the real cause of everyones economic, social, professional, occupational, and spiritual condition in life. As has already been stated, we are where we are and what we are because of our fixed habits. And we may be where we wish to be and what we wish to be only by the development and the maintenance of our voluntary habits.”
Anyway, back to the study, and to my original ideas on Benjamin Franklin soon…
