Think and grow rich ( By Napoleon Hill 1937 Books )

THINK AND GROW RICH 

                                                        || NAPOLEON HILL||

When I first started Eventual Millionaire, I lived in a small town in the middle of the Maine woods. No one around me had any interest in business, so I turned my attention to books, blogs, and eventually podcasts.

One of the first books I read was Think and Grow Rich, a 1937 book by Napoleon Hill. In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill teaches what called the thirteen steps to riches. Those thirteen steps, he claimed, were the secret to building wealth.

Needless to say, I was intrigued. Some of my favorite business quotes come straight from Napoleon Hill. I’ve included many of them in this post for you to see, too.

Hill claimed he learned the thirteen steps to riches from Andrew Carnegie whom he worked with for two decades. Carnegie was the wealthiest man in the world at the time. According to Hill, Carnegie shared his success secrets with him and connected him with over 500 of the most successful people in the world to learn their secrets, too. Those people included Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, and Alexander Graham Bell.

Twenty years later, Napoleon Hill turned the lessons he learned after connecting with those 500+ into the thirteen steps to riches, which he outlined in Think and Grow Rich. The thirteen steps included well-known principles, like desire and persistence, as well as unconventional principles like the power of the mastermind (he called it “master mind” at the time; today it’s just one word) and the mystery of sex transmutation.

Not very many people talk about the sex transmutation part of the book, but it’s a pretty interesting chapter. Basically, Napoleon Hill claims that the most successful people had strong sex drives and the ability, discipline, and self-control to react to their sexual urges by engaging in non-sexual, productive actions, like exercising, eating better, and working harder to impress the object of their desire. Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, had little self-control and reacted to sexual urges with destructive physical expressions.

How Think and Grow Rich Changed My Life

Al though Think and Grow Rich changed my life in many ways, two things stick out above all.

The first way it changed my life was by my applying Napoleon Hill’s steps to riches. Although I can’t say I’ve applied all thirteen of them, the power of the mastermind had a particularly strong impact on my life.

A mastermind is a group of two or more people working together to help each other reach a goal. In a mastermind group, each person benefits from the education, experience, influence, and perspective of the others. That helps everyone accomplish more, and faster, than they ever could alone.

This principle changed my life. In fact, it’s probably the most impact of the thirteen steps in the past 80 years, as more and more people experience the power of being in a mastermind group.

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My problem with the mastermind principle was that, although I had run masterminds as a coach with my mentor, I had never started my own and had nobody in my life who would want to start one with me. Ideally, you want to find members that are MORE successful than you, and when I looked around to my immediate network, I didn’t have anyone I could ask.

I decided to send a few cold emails to some bloggers I followed and asked if they wanted to start a mastermind group with me. One of the first people to say yes was an unknown blogger name Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.com. A few others joined us. We began meeting virtually every week to help each other grow our online businesses. 

More than six years later, each of us has achieved more success than we could have ever dreamed. We still meet regularly and I can say without any hesitation that being in this group was one of the best decisions I’ve made in business. Here’s a worksheet on starting your own mastermind if you’d like to start your own.

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