Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

Note that it is “think” and “grow rich,” and not “work hard” and “grow rich.” The title of the Napoleon Hill (Oct. 26, 1883, Nov. 8, 1970) book is brilliant. Indeed “right thinking” is the pre-requisite to wealth generation.

“Think and Grow Rich” was published in 1937. The currently resurgent popular terms “Right Thinking,” “Law of Attraction,” and “The Secret (of getting rich),” as well as the concept behind the terms originate from 19^th Century American New Thought Movement that began in the 1860’s. The Movement sought to move the conventional, doctrinal, and institutional organized religion toward a spirituality, divinity, individual, independent, and intellectual realm of religious believe. Since the Movement advocate individual and independent thinking, there were many concept and applications of the “Right Think.”

Napoleon Hill’s concept of the “Right Think” was “Thoughts” generated by, associated and embedded with a burning desire to succeed in a personally identified definitive purpose.

Hill’s premise is that the burning desire stimulates the all-powerful subconscious mind to generate Ah-Ha ideas and solutions, while mobilize the subconscious to attract people, events and circumstances to manifest success for that burning desire and definitive purpose.

To learn the earlier sources of this believe system and life philosophy, and how it can be practiced to fruition, wait for my next blog, and visit www.achievingtruefreedom.com

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