How has Napoleon Hill affected your thinking?

[cultivategreatness]

Napoleon Hill was such a great thinker. He is definitely one of my Heroes. I remember someone suggesting reading his book while I was waiting tables at a Macaroni Grill in Overland Park, KS on January 1st 1995. It changed the course of my thinking forever.

In fact, to honor his mentorship of me, and Im certain so many others, I have created a Napoleon Hill Law of Success Podcast Series.

So far, I have done The first 3 lessons,

1. The MasterMind Group
2. A Definite Chief Aim
3. Self-Confidence
4. The Habit of Saving
5. NEXT UP- Leadership and Initiative


Such an amazing mind and thinker... How has Napoleon Hill affected your thinking?

[micth]

I just bought the law of success and think and grow rich off amazon, so he hasn't affected my thinking yet :P, but hopefully ill get through them in a week or two... i've heard such great things about Napoleon Hill and i can't wait to read his books.

Btw, your website is pretty rockin

[cultivategreatness]

Hey thanks!

Yeah, Think and Grow Rich is a classic, however the Law of Success is more comprehensive, although nearly 1600 pages... sort of a daunting task.

Which is one of the reasons I wanted to do that podcast series, so I could dissect each Lesson in the Law of Success. 1600 pages, 100 pages a week for 16 weeks or so... plus all the other books I am reading!!!

Man, I need this photoreading thing to start working for me! heh

[Hugh Hollowell]

Napolean Hill's writing is to Personal Development what the Gospel of John is to Christianity.

Hill was quite daring for his time, and should be required reading for every high school student. The idea that we become what we think about seems so... common, yet the implications are earthshattering. Prior to that, success literature was focused on changing our circumstances... work harder, save money, be a saver. All good advice, but Hill showed us that we could change ourselves.

The Laws of Success is definantly the way to go, as Think and Grow Rich was written to be a popular introduction for the masses. Much more detail is available in the LOS.

It is also interesting to note that Hill spoke of such things (without using the names we now have for them) as Out of Body Experiences, Guides, Channeling, and the Collective Unconscious.

Highly Recomended.

[Dbarker]

Originally Posted by Hugh Hollowell

Hill was quite daring for his time, and should be required reading for every high school student.

I agree. I worked with a teacher that did some work with her students on Think and Grow Rich. Great stuff. Hill got me thinking about MY thinking and how I could change circumstances by thinking I could. I am looking forward to reading Law of Success.

[cultivategreatness]

One thing that has always perplexed me about Dr. Hill was that apparently, he ended up broke. And one of his students, applied his information better than he did, W. Clement Stone, and ended up helping Napoleon out and bought the rights to his work. Apparently W. Clement Stone Trust owns the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

Kind of interesting. I have never found the whole story out,but I heard that from Brian Tracy.

So, you can know... but that doesnt mean you act on what you know.

[ImOpen]

Originally Posted by Hugh Hollowell

The idea that we become what we think about seems so... common, yet the implications are earthshattering.

Just to clarify: That is Not his idea, Buddha said that more than 2000 years earlier.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Hugh Hollowell

Prior to that, success literature was focused on changing our circumstances... work harder, save money, be a saver. All good advice, but Hill showed us that we could change ourselves.

Hi Hugh


Have to just stick my oar in here and suggest that Benjamin Franklin in his Autobiography was way into personal change before NH was born!

Franklin was one of those guys who belived that internal integrity was beyond everything else and was the torch for others to follow in their self improvement.

In fact Frank Bettger became who he became because of Ben Franklin's 13 week system of self improvement.

[Lonewolf]

There's many more exciting developments taking place in newer fields like hypnosis, meditation and Neuro Linguistic Programming. Reading Napoleon Hill is like reading Freud to understand modern psychology; it's an old classic.