• Hypnosis
• Meditation
• Fasting
• Drugs
• At the point of waking ( hypnopompic state  )
• At some crisis or other deep emotional state.
• Auto Suggestion (Self Hypnosis)

Around the time of me stopping smoking I was extremely ill with a chest infection - I can remember clearly thinking that I felt so ill that I could actually die. I remember grasping deep down into my conscious and talking to myself to say this cannot go on, smoking is damaging my body and I will not let this happen anymore. I felt a strange wave of emotion through my body and instantly knew that I was never going to smoke again. It was a very uplifting experience, as if my soul had been touched. I believe that was the moment when my subconscious got the message and knew that for my survival I (we) had to give up smoking.

• Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine - publisher and editor (1919-1920)
• Napoleon Hill’s Magazine - publisher and editor (1921-1922)
• The Law of Success (1925)
• The Law of Success (1928)
• The Magic Ladder to Success (1930)
• Think and Grow Rich - (1937).
• How to Sell Your Way through Life (1939)
• Mental Dynamite (1941)
• The Master key To Riches (1945)
• How to Raise Your Own Salary (1953)
• taught Philosophy of Personal Achievement with W. Clement Stone and lectured on the Science of Success (1952-1962)
• Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960)
• abridged version of Think and Grow Rich (1960)
• You Can Work Your Own Miracles, was published posthumously (1971) following Napoleon Hill’s death in 1970 at the age of 87.

With the onset of the Great Depression Napoleon Hill decided on editing down the Law Of Success and making it more accessible to people. This edited and rewritten version was published in 1930 and titled: The Magic Ladder To Success.

The book is hard to track down so I’ve ordered a reprint copy (available from highroads media ).

Interesting though is a quote from the book that states:

“Leaders are not born, they are molded by a remarkably similar, simple, and dynamic set of habits.”

I will let you know what my thoughts are about the book when I read it.

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/

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 already 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.

You buy a course, read a book, watch a DVD.
It shows you a plan that someone followed to become successful. They finally had a breakthrough of their cycle of procrastination, and now (through their plan) they have more money, a better way of life, fast cars, beautiful women. They have improved in some way and now they’re trying to teach that method to you.

You’ll know from experience though, that following the plan of someone else does not normally work.

Why is this?

Well, personally, I think it’s because the person teaching you the new method should teach you what they have done from BIRTH! See, for someone to be in the same state of mind when following the course, you need to have all the experiences as the teacher.

This is not a recipe to bake a cake! you are trying to get someone to change their HABITS and that, I’m afraid, comes under the influence of your sub-conscious mind.

As soon as you realize that Personal Development comes from your change of habits, and this is controlled DIRECTLY from your sub-conscious, you will have the foundation to do anything you wish.

Convincing your sub-conscious mind is the key, and the habit code will show you the 7 methods of controlling your subconscious mind.

As Carl Jung stated the Collective Unconscious is the “reservoir of the experiences of our species“.

I personally take that to mean that an amount of the experiences that YOU have during your lifetime (whether that’s Memories, Emotions or Imaginative thoughts) CAN be passed from generation to generation. If an experience generates ENOUGH emotion within you then this can form a connection in the brain that is passed on through our genes so that the next generation can benefit from the experience.

When all’s said and done we are Animals. Maybe we are fairly advanced for our species ( maybe not a good thing all the time ). But we have evolved with Instincts. Instincts are inbuilt within the brains of humans from conception. They have to be transferred by some genetic method. Instincts have evolved by the necessity of life to re-generate. Passing on useful information from one generation to the next allows the next generation to be slightly different and this genetic mutation allows life to proliferate.

All the Instincts we have are governed by our SUBCONSCIOUS mind, we have no knowledge of them, until the Instinct is triggered by some emotional need. i.e. Sex, Hunger, Protection.

Now as well as Instincts that cover our basic human needs what if actual thoughts could be passed from generation to generation. Unfortunately, you cannot consciously remember these thoughts. They are stored within your Collective Unconscious. I am not saying that ALL your thoughts can be transfered to the Collective Unconsciousness of your offspring. What I am saying is that IF thoughts are mixed with a tremendous amount of emotion then these will burn a deep indelible path in your synapses and with this depth of UNconscious recording, a shadow, an emotion or maybe even the actual thought, is passed through your genes to your offspring’s Collective Unconscious.

Maybe it is just one dominating thought or experience that is passed from generation to generation, but when an external trigger fires this unconscious thought, it will influence you to make a decision one way or the other. Wouldn’t this be a good explanation of ‘The Sixth Sense’ that Napoleon Hill wrote about in Think And Grow Rich. In fact it might explain quite a few human experiences that we get such as déjà vu, telepathy, Regretion and Dreams.

If it happened that one Emotionalized Memory (EM’s) was passed down between generations then we would receive one from each of our parents. Our parents would have received two each from their parents and… so on… and so on…

…Now in the post on the collective conscious I said that if you go back just three generations then you will have received 14 EM remnants. Ok, I hope your still with me here, If we go back just 64 generations ( that would take us back to the first century A.D. if we believe a generation to be 30 years for arguments sake ) then how many EM’s would you expect to be passed down to you.

I’m sure the answer will surprise you. It sure did me.

The answer is 18,446,744,073,709,551,614

which works out at Eighteen Quintillion, Four Hundred Forty Six Quadrillion, Seven Hundred Forty Four Trillion, Seventy Three Billion, Seven Hundred Nine Million, Five Hundred Fifty One Thousand, Six hundred and fourteen.

No wonder there are so many shrinks in the world.

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.

The amount of experiences, good or bad, in each of the three parts of the psyche, make up your character. For example if you have had a particularly happy childhood and then measured your ‘collectors’ at the point of adolescence your Good experiences collector would look like the following:

Now this isn’t a perfect situation because you have an imbalance in all three parts between your Good Experiences and your Bad Experiences. Balance is a good thing. The difference shown on the diagram shows a weakness that can then have an effect if we experience some sort of a crisis that effects one of the three parts.

Red is Mind, Body is Green and Soul is Blue. Measuring these three energy levels allows us to see if there is an overuse, or underuse of energy and to which area it is attributed.

Now, I’m thinking of adding two experience collectors, one on the Good habits IN and an other on the Bad Habits Out. We’ll see.