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13 SECRETS OF NAPOLEON HILL 
 
1.  DESIRE  
 
It is not accidental that Hill begins with desire. Success always begins  
with desire.   
Most people want to be successful. Wanting success is a waste of time.  
Worse, it just produces frustration. Only a burning, all-consuming, fervent  
and passionate desire will produce the exceptional results that make up  
true success.   
Wanting is best understood by its second meaning in the dictionary: lack.  
To want for something is to lack something and so long as you merely  
want success, you will lack success. Wanting is mere wishful thinking.   
Desire, on the other hand, is an extremely potent force. It is a supreme  
motivator. It is a metaphysical principle of creation.   
Desire is an energetic emanation of the human spirit that enacts the law  
of attraction. Desire is the metaphysical equivalent of gravity. Desire  
draws to you the thing desired, or the elements that will constitute the  
thing desired. Desire is the fuel that ignites the fire that transmutes  
thoughts into things.   
The sad truth about most people who claim to want success is that they  
actually do not desire success. What they desire is comfort and security.  
The path to real success often demands that you give up comfort and  
security in order to gain rewards greater than mere creature comforts  
and minor financial security.   
For years, I wanted to be a millionaire. I wanted and wanted to no avail.  
It was not until, one day, in my frustration and anger, I graduated from  
wanting to truly desiring success, and, as a result, I was almost magically  
catapulted into millionaire status.   
It was the burning passion of fervent desire that pushed me out of my  
comfort zone of mediocrity and security and empowered me to achieve  
real success. It was my desire that enabled me to get past the fear of  
failure and get past the frustrations of obstacles to achieve the success I  
had wanted for so many years.   
You must have or develop a burning passion for success. Without it, you  
are highly unlikely to achieve it. Get passionate or stay home.   
This is critical…your desire must be specific. It must be attached to a  
clear and specific ideal, a clear and consistent thought picture of what  
success means to you.   
Desire is one of the ten "Ds" of super-success that I define, explain and  
elaborate on in the seLFTech Success Library eBooks.  
 
 
2.  FAITH  
 
Hill says, "all thoughts that have been emotionalized (given feeling  
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through desire) and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate  
themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart."   
What he alludes to, but does not fully explain, is that it is our beliefs  
themselves that either empower us to soar to previously unimaginable  
heights or chain us to the lower echelons of achievement.   
Not only must you have a burning desire for a specific thought of success,  
but you must also have the faith or belief that success is not only  
available to you as an abstract, but it is your birthright and all you need  
to do is claim it as your own and it shall be yours.   
Your faith in your ideal and your faith in your right to the havingness of  
this ideal is crucial to your being able to end up having it.   
Most people have their faith or belief formed by the evidence of what has  
already happened or been made manifest. As a result, they find it difficult  
to believe in things that are not historically proven. If what has been  
historically proven for the masses and for you personally (thus far) is  
mediocrity, then without the belief in the potentiality of success as being  
'as real as' the actuality of mediocrity, you will not be able to achieve the  
imagined ideal of success.   
Hill also goes on to say that autosuggestion or repeated affirmations can  
enable faith and belief. He does not address the issue of core beliefs that  
can, despite all affirmations to the contrary, imprison a person in lack and  
limitation.   
Hill, himself, was fortunate that his association with Carnegie, and the  
other self-made successful people that Carnegie introduced him to,  
enabled him, over time, to discard any core beliefs he may have had  
about wealth or poverty and success or failure and to take on new core  
beliefs. He was, in effect, brainwashed by his own research into the  
principles of success so that his core beliefs became those he wrote  
about.   
You may have to do the same…brainwash yourself…cleanse your mind of  
any limiting core beliefs you may hold so that new empowering beliefs  
can be installed. How to do that is addressed in the seLFTech Success  
Library. All the tools you need are there waiting for you to discover and  
apply so that you may achieve the success you desire.   
"Faith is," indeed, to quote Christianity's greatest salesman, Paul, "the  
evidence of things not (yet) seen." Doubt can turn a molehill into a  
mountain. Faith can move mountains.   
Know this…there are two separate energetic vibrational outputs of human  
consciousness that lead to creation, or conscious manifestation, when  
they are braided together. The first is concrete, specific, repetitive,  
idealized thought combined with desire (the emotionalized thought that  
Hill refers to). The second is firm, profound belief in the actuality of an  
ideal combined with intentionality of behavior. Have faith. It shall come to  
pass.   
You must have both electromagnetic braids of consciousness happening  
at the same time:   
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Thought plus desire. Faith plus intent. This whole process of  
manifestation is explained in the eBook, Creating and Living a Super  
Successful Life.  
 
3.  AUTO-SUGGESTION  
 
Hill emphasizes in this chapter, for the second time in the book, the  
crucial importance of having clearly defined written goals that are  
repeated, preferably out -loud to oneself throughout the day. Now he goes  
further and states that it is very important to affirm one's goals and  
ideals at some quiet time, such as just before falling asleep.   
He may have been unfamiliar with meditation techniques or may have  
been reluctant to encourage their use in a time when such things were  
seen as a part of eastern mysticism and as being out-of-sync with his  
obvious Christian beliefs.   
Here is why the quiet time is ideal for auto-suggestion or affirmation.   
When you intentionally think about, repeat and affirm your ideals, you  
are planting the seeds that will grow to bear fruit. When your mind is  
busy with all kinds of distracting thoughts, or worse, non-contributory or  
negative thoughts, you are planting your seeds amongst an abundance of  
weeds. When your mind is still and focused, you are, in effect, preparing  
fresh and fertile, weed-free, ground in which to plant your thought seeds.  
In addition to preparing the ideal mental ground to plant your thought  
seeds, meditation also stills your mind so that intuition can be accessed,  
insight can be attained and your connectivity to the absolute can be  
ascertained. Since all creativity springs from the potentiality of the infinite  
and absolute, it only makes practical sense to become as intimate with  
the infinite as you can manage. Meditation is the well-worn and proven  
method of achieving this intimacy.   
Repeated affirmation of ideals and goals is highly effective. It is even  
more effective when done in a meditative state. It is even more effective  
when you use insight, obtained through meditation and contemplation of  
self, to come to know and consciously choose which core beliefs you will  
hold, discard or take on.   
You are fortunate beyond measure in comparison to those who lived  
when Hill originally wrote Think and Grow Rich. Not only is the ignorance  
of and prejudice against meditation almost gone from the educated  
people of today, there are now several advanced techniques enabled by  
scientific understanding and application of brainwave states and their  
relationship to mental activity.   
We have all been, in a sense, brainwashed by our parents, our teachers  
and our societal groupthink to hold certain expectations and certain  
beliefs. Choosing to enact what Hill calls autosuggestion and affirmation is  
choosing to do your own intentional brainwashing (or what Leary,  
Bateson, Lilly and others have called 'meta-programming your own bio- 
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computer') in order to program yourself for success.   
Hill proposed writing down your ideals and goals on 3x5 cards and  
carrying them with you. I support this. There is something magical in  
writing (not typing). Today, however, you can also record your goals,  
ideals and affirmations into MP3 files and listen to them while driving,  
walking or standing in line at the bank to deposit your developing wealth.  
Your own voice, repeating, over and over again, your affirmations of your  
ideals and goals will implant these into your subconscious tape loop that  
runs in the background 24/7.  
   
  
 4.  SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE  
  
In this chapter of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill goes to great  
lengths to make the distinction between generalized knowledge and  
specialized knowledge; and between formal education and practical  
information. By citing examples of the lives of certain individuals in an  
offhand manner, Hill alludes to the most important thing about  
knowledge.   
Here it is plainly spoken: Knowledge, by and of itself, has little, if any,  
value.   
You may find that shocking or, at least contrary to everything you've  
been taught, but it is true. Knowledge only becomes valuable in its  
application. You may have heard that knowledge is power. Wrong. It is  
applied knowledge that begets power, wealth and the advancement of  
humanity. The secret is in the application, not in the knowledge itself.   
For years, I considered myself to be highly educated about success. I  
willfully ignored the evidence of my own lack of success, considering it a  
temporary aberration. Once, I really got that it is the application, not the  
possession, of knowledge that produces results, I went from average to  
highly successful in a matter of months.   
To quote one of the wisest of teachers, Confucius:   
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it;   
not having it, to confess your ignorance."  
Hill does point out, in the first paragraph of this chapter, that although  
universities possess perhaps all of the aggregate knowledge of  
humankind, professors, for the most part, although surrounded by all this  
knowledge and though very knowledgeable, have themselves little or no  
money; while many people of little formal education go on to produce  
great wealth and great material advancements for all humanity.   
He also alludes to, but does not spell out plainly, that the very best form  
of specialized knowledge, that a person who desires success and wealth  
can obtain, is the knowledge of how to become successful. How sad it is  
to teach our children to aspire to success but not teach them how to get  
it. We teach them that an education will bring them success and  
happiness, but neglect to tell them what specific education that is and  
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further neglect to say that it is the application of the specific education  
that will bring success and happiness.   
Hill makes great use of the story of Henry Ford proving, in the courtroom,  
that although he was uneducated, he was not ignorant, because, as he  
said it, "any time I should wish to know something specific, I can simply  
push a button on my desk and some person who knows the answer will  
come to provide it to me."   
These days, with the accumulation of information and training being as  
easy as the 'click of a mouse', there is no excuse for not being successful  
in any field, except that you are ignorant of the principles of success, or  
for some personal perversity, refuse to apply them to your life.   
  
   
 5.  IMAGINATION  
  
In this chapter, Hill not only points out the role of imagination in human  
development, but also makes the clear distinction between the two main  
types of imagination, which he calls 'synthetic imagination' and 'creative  
imagination'.   
This distinction is a critical understanding. I, or others, may haven chosen  
to label and explain, in our own writings, these distinctions in different  
ways, but the labels do not matter. Most people, who claim to use their  
imagination, are using the type Hill called 'synthetic imagination'. It is of  
little use, save for personal entertainment.   
The great humanistic psychologist, William James, had this to say about  
the same subject:   
"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely  
rearranging their prejudices."  
Synthetic imagination is the manipulation of effects. Creative imagination  
is causal that creates effects.   
All things, from the invention of writing to the invention of the Internet  
came about because of the use of creative imagination. Synthetic  
imagination merely, at best, can improve upon what already exists. The  
bringing of new things into existence requires the use of creative  
imagination.   
The creation of wealth can be obtained, with diligence, through the  
informed and practical use of synthetic imagination (e.g. creating a better  
mouse trap), but most wealth and most advancement in human  
technology comes about through the use of creative imagination.   
Succinctly put, your imagination is the workshop in which you, mostly  
without conscious recognition, create the results that show up in your life.  
What you hold as an image in your mind is what shows up in your life.   
If what you are imagining is simply a rehash of what has already occurred  
or been created by others, then your results shall be limited to what has  
been, not what can be. The sad, sad, sad thing that we inflict upon our  
children and ourselves is the dampening of imagination. 'It is only in your  
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imagination,' is the common refrain. We neglect tell them or reinforce  
that all great and wonderful things that exist in our world had their  
genesis 'only in imagination'.   
What is not recognized, honored and amplified is that it is the dreamers,  
the imaginers, who go on to produce the new, the wonderful, the unique  
advancements that end up creating, not only personal wealth, but greater  
wealth and well-being for all humankind.   
Know this: that which you imagine, expect and visualize in your internal  
world is that which gets produced in your external world.   
This is now been proven by the science of quantum mechanics. As has  
been so expertly described by the scientific genius, David Bohm, the  
explicate (or external physical reality) is, not only best understood by,  
but is brought into being by, the implicate (or internal reality) of pure  
consciousness and its imaginings of what is and what can be.   
  
  
 6.  ORGANIZED PLANNING  
  
This, in my opinion, is the weakest chapter of Hill's book. He speaks of the  
need for organized planning, but skirts around the issue; instead offering  
suggestions about how to get a job and writes some useless paragraphs  
extolling the American way, which, in any case, no longer exists as he  
describes it.   
Every noteworthy or great accomplishment came about because there  
was a plan.   
What Hill should have done (and does do in other chapters) is point out  
the need to have concrete written goals that are in harmony with one's  
chosen purpose and/or ideals.   
Goals are not vague aspirations like, 'I want to be rich.' They are  
concrete, defined steps in the fulfillment of your personal vision or  
purpose. They are a specific plan.   
I am always amazed by how many people continue to refuse (through  
laziness or a lack of belief in the necessity) to have clear, concise, written  
goals, despite being presented again and again with the evidence that  
those who do have written goals succeed and those who do not…do not.   
There have been many studies about the effectiveness of having written  
goals. They invariably show the same results.   
95% of people who have (and daily refer to) written goals end up  
accomplishing them.  
95% of people who do not have written goals, do not accomplish  
much of anything. 
If you can read this paragraph and not have begun the process of having  
written goals by the time you go to bed tonight, you should know that you  
are choosing failure.   
Businesses that succeed have a business plan. The business of life also  
requires a plan.   
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When you have a plan, you know what you are about; you know when  
 
you are on (or off) track; you can measure your progress; you can tell  
others who might enroll in your vision what it is that needs doing; you can  
provide leadership to all those who enroll in your plan; and most  
 
7.  DECISION  
 
Decision is another one of the ten 'Ds' of super-success that I describe in  
the Library.   
Napoleon Hill says this, "Analysis of several hundred people who had  
accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the  
fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly,  
and changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed at  
all. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the  
habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these  
decisions quickly and often."   
Another Napoleon, Bonaparte, says this:   
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than  
to be able to decide."  
The ability to make clear, firm resolute decisions is as precious a gift as  
life itself. It is what enables human beings to take control of their lives, to  
rise above chance and circumstance and to chart a destiny. Those who  
fail to make conscious choices may as well not have any free will, for they  
squander the gift of decisiveness.   
The successful and happy human being is the one in whom choice is  
intentional and purposeful. Decision produces results. It can, also be said  
that the failure to decide is, in itself, a decision, a decision to let your life  
be governed by event and circumstance.   
Decision can be called choice by design. Lack of decisiveness is choice by  
default. It is also a choice. It is the decision to choose unhappiness,  
mediocrity and commonality.   
  
 "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom  
nothing is habitual but indecision."   
 — William James  
   
Those who make decisions are the masters of their fate. Those who don't  
are the servants of fate. Those who decide to become, to enact and to  
have, according to their own design, are assisted by the laws of creation.  
There is enormous power unleashed by a simple decision.   
  
 "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it  
happen."   
 — Ralph Waldo Emerson  
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Unfortunately, many people miss the importance of the last phrase in  
Napoleon Hill's first sentence in the second paragraph above, and they  
treat their decisions like men treat a TV remote control, constantly  
changing from one expectation to another.   
Decisions should be firm; as in the following example:  
"I resolve this date of (day, month, year) ________________  
to do such and such and to stay the course until it is done."   
Which brings us to Hill's eighth secret of success… persistence.  
  
  
 8.  PERSISTENCE  
  
On almost every page of my Prosperity Paradigm eZine, you will find a  
very succinct formula that I like to shorten to p3=P. It is this: purpose +  
passion + persistence = Prosperity.   
Hill says this, "Persistence is an essential factor in transmuting desire into  
its monetary equivalent." He goes on to explain that desire (passion) plus  
the power of will (persistence) make an irresistible pair and almost  
always end up producing wealth.   
A long attention span, combined with determination, is an attribute  
shared by all successful people. These days most people don't have the  
attention span of a gnat. They channel surf. Their opinions change from  
day to day. They cannot read anything longer than a USA Today article.  
They move from fad to fad. They change from one business opportunity  
to the next without ever waiting for their work to bear fruit.   
Thomas Edison commented that 90% of people quit 90% of the way to  
accomplishing their goals. These days it is 99% who quit a mere 20% of  
the way. Those who persist, win. Those who do not, lose. That is as true  
today as it was 60 years ago when Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich.   
It seems that the only thing that most people have the capacity to persist  
with is their bad habits of thinking and believing. Despite the  
overwhelming evidence that the way they think and what they believe is  
not producing the results they desire, they persist in hanging on to what  
does not work.   
Define your ideals, plan their enactment and persist in your plan and you  
will produce results. Desire and faith (belief) are the fuel that produces  
persistence. Persistence turns stumbling blocks into stepping-stones on  
your pathway to success. The many perceive a molehill as an  
insurmountable mountain blocking their path; the few choose to see a  
mountain in their path as an opportunity to gain a vaster perspective of  
their pathway forward. It is simply a matter of attitude.   
Purpose plus passion plus persistence equals prosperity.   
Calvin Coolidge said it clearly:   
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent  
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with  
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talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a  
proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated  
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are  
omnipotent."  
This is as succinct as I can say it… If you fail to persist, you will persist in  
failing.  
   
  
 9.  POWER OF THE MASTER MIND  
  
This is my favorite chapter of the entire Think and Grow Rich book. Not  
just because Hill stresses the importance of having a mastermind group  
of like-minded people, but also because he clearly explains the value of  
specific knowledge and that power is derived only from the direct and  
purposeful application of knowledge.   
The importance of brainstorming with like-minded individuals cannot be  
overstated. Work groups, executive teams, board members are all the  
direct recognition that the collective power of several minds working and  
planning together can accomplish much more than one mind alone.   
Two or more minds, working in harmony, produce a synergistic energy  
that weaves a concrete reality out of purpose, vision and determination.  
Harmony is not just some nicey-nice, feel-good environment. All creation  
is comprised of vibration. Harmonious vibrations are creative. Discordant  
vibrations are destructive. When you intentionally place yourself into a  
harmonious position, you are acting in concert with the natural laws of  
universal creation.   
The people you hang around with are a part of your mastermind team.  
Play close attention to the quality of thinking that your associates have.  
Most people prefer to hang out with those who do NOT challenge them. It  
is more comfortable. What do you, your friends and associates talk  
about?   
Below average people talk about other people, read People magazine  
and, in so doing, affirm that the activities and successes of other people  
are more real and more valuable than their own.   
Average people talk about things, events and circumstances, watch the  
nightly, network, nightmare news and, in so doing, affirm that the  
conditions of the world control their success.   
Above average people talk about ideas and concepts, read good books  
and, in so doing, affirm that their own success is dependent upon learning  
and applying the right ideas.   
Super successful people talk about their own ideals and visions,  
communicate about them with other super successful people, and in so  
doing, affirm that their success derives from their personal power to  
think, desire, believe and act with intent/purpose.   
If you had the opportunity to have a group of super successful people as  
your personal advisors, coaching you to become all that you were capable  
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of becoming, and mentoring you to achieve the fulfillment of your  
potential, would you take it?   
Would you follow the advice of the people who have achieved huge levels  
of success, personal fulfillment and happiness in place of those who are  
mired in mediocrity?   
Would you like to have self-made millionaires on your mastermind team?   
If the answer is yes, then obtain the seLFTech Success Library AND  
information from other proven success coaches like Napoleon Hill,  
Randy Gage and Harv Eker .   
Study the specific knowledge of success and apply it to your life and you  
will succeed.  
  
  
 10.  TRANSMUTATION  
  
Boy, I had a tough time with this chapter when I first read the book in my  
youth. I honestly thought that, although I recognized there to be a link  
between creativity and sexuality, it was mostly some old man's  
rationalization for waning sexual vitality.   
It was not until I studied Kundalini, the Chakras and began to understand  
the true vibratory nature of creation that it became clear that what Hill  
was talking about was a prime metaphysical understanding about creative  
energy and how to utilize it. It was also, as he predicted, not until I had  
passed my fortieth birthday that I actually began to clue into what he was  
talking about.   
We have, culturally, so many moralistic assumptions and beliefs about  
sexual energy that we prevent ourselves from fully understanding what it  
is and what it is capable of. The whole subject is so complex that several  
books could be (and have been) written about the subject without fully  
explaining it.   
Many women today may understandably be put off by Hill's seemingly  
sexist attitude. However, it is a huge mistake to miss the vital importance  
of Hill's message in this chapter by dismissing his supposed prejudice  
through some prejudice of one's own.   
First, it should be understood that he was immersed in the culture of his  
times. Second, it should not be missed that women have a greater innate  
capacity to consciously use sexual energy and attractiveness to get what  
they want in life and that many men need to be educated about their own  
power.   
Sexual energy is also closely related to charisma and charisma attracts  
not only people, but wealth and power.   
The drive for success is 'coincidently' often also strongest in those who  
also have a high sexual drive. The truly empowered person is one who  
has learned, as Hill says, to transmute much of that sexual energy into  
creative energy and not squander it in vain physical pursuits.   
   
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 11.  THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND  
  
It is quite clear to any reader of this chapter, who has also read Haanel's  
The Master Key, that Hill draws heavily on that earlier work to formulate  
his thoughts for this chapter. It was Haanel, not Hill, who gave me my  
personal "ah-ha moment" about the real nature of success and its source  
as being within the mind rather than in the external world. It was Haanel  
that helped me become an 'overnight success' and self-made millionaire.   
My modernized version of The Master Key is one of the seventeen eBooks  
that make up the seLFTech Success Library. It is essential reading for  
anyone who truly desires to become a successful conscious creator.   
Most people have little understanding of the workings of their conscious  
mind and even less understanding of the workings of their subconscious  
mind. Here are the essential understandings you need to acquire:   
It is the subconscious mind, NOT the conscious mind that exerts  
the most control over your beliefs, thoughts and actions and thus,  
your results.  
The subconscious can, however, be consciously programmed and  
controlled by the conscious mind.  
The subconscious mind is the source of insight, intuition,  
imagination and creativity.  
The subconscious mind is also your direct link to the collective  
subconsciousness of humanity, which also has a greater influence  
on your beliefs, thoughts and actions than does your conscious  
mind.  
The subconscious mind is also your direct link to universal  
consciousness, which is the source of all power and creativity.  
Your subconscious mind is accessible only when you learn how to  
still the hyper activity of the conscious mind. Meditation  
techniques are the best way to accomplish this control.  
To learn precisely, as I did, the make-up and use of the sub-conscious  
mind, and, a step-by-step cumulative program on how to put it to its  
maximum benefit, order your copy of Volume 2 of the seLFTech Success  
Library which contains The Master Key and more material that will awaken  
you to your power and potential, AND, allow you to finally have the  
results you've been striving to attain.  
   
  
 12.  THE BRAIN  
  
Hill can be forgiven, I think, for mixing brain and mind together as if they  
were one and the same thing. Most people still do the same thing.   
However, simply because mind is evident in brain does not mean that one  
is the other anymore than a glass should be confused with the water it  
contains.   
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The attributes of the brain are quite simple. It is a mass of biological  
material that permits electrochemical activity. The attributes of the mind  
are quite a bit more complex.   
Hill also shows, once again, his limited knowledge of brain/mind activities  
and meditation techniques here. He refers again the increased frequency  
of the mind/brain when creativity is engaged. Although there is some  
truth to the idea that brainwave activity spikes momentarily during  
periods of intense creativity, it is now pretty well understood that  
creativity, insight, intuition and the so-called super-learning state come  
about when brainwave activity is reduced (not increased) from the  
normal Beta frequencies of 15 to 75 cycles per second (cps) to the Alpha  
state frequencies of between 7 to 14 cps.   
It is through the deliberate slowing down of the activities of the conscious  
mind that the subconscious attributes of mind can be accessed. Deeper  
meditative states like Theta, which exhibits brainwave activity of between  
4 to 6 cps provide access to even deeper subconscious attributes of mind  
and to the collective subconsciousness of humanity. Deeper still is the  
Delta state of ½  to 4 cps, wherein the infinite universal intelligence can  
be both perceived and accessed.   
So, contrary to popular misconception, it is not increased brain activity  
that produces great ideas or the resulting wealth; it is in reducing and  
consciously controlling the specific activities of mind i.e. thought, that  
produces inspiration, insight and wealth.   
It is now understood that the average human has about 60,000 thoughts  
per day; 99% of these are non-productive, non-contributory random  
subconscious noise. The few who learn how to examine and exert control  
over the thoughts that they allow to pass through mind are the ones who  
attain, achieve and accomplish so much more than their fellows.   
It is not the general increased vibration of mental activity as described by  
Hill, but the increased frequency of specific, consciously chosen thoughts  
 
13.  THE SIXTH SENSE  
 
This chapter is so profound that I hesitate to even comment on it. Long  
before people began 'channeling' discarnate entities for their wisdom,  
Napoleon Hill was having full cabinet meetings in his imagination with  
men, many long dead, that he considered to be the 'wise ones'.   
At one point he stopped, fearful that his imaginary meetings were  
becoming more real than everyday reality. His imaginary MasterMind  
mentors came to him to demand he continue his work or perish for  
refusing to fulfill his destiny. And so he did. And what a great work it has  
proven to be. Much of the wealth of the last half of the twentieth century  
came about because of the actions taken by men and women who were  
directly inspired by Napoleon Hill and Think and Grow Rich to create, not  
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being for all humanity.   
What Hill calls the sixth sense is your direct and intimate connection to  
the infinite, ineffable universal mind, source of all that is and all that can  
be. You are the channel whereby the infinite makes manifest the finite.  
You are wealthy beyond measure. All you need to do is to claim your  
birthright.   
Think clearly, purposefully, creatively. Attach to those idealized thoughts  
a passionate desire to have them made manifest. Have faith that it shall  
be so. Attach to your belief the firm intent that your beingness and  
actions will cause the ideals to be made real. And so it shall be.   
Think and Grow Rich is a gem; it should be required reading in all  
schools. Even its few errors are themselves apparent to us now these 60  
years later due mostly to the advances that have come about, in great  
part, to the knowledge and inspiration provided by Hill himself.   
If you have not yet read Think and Grow Rich, read it now.   
If you have read Think and Grow Rich, read it again NOW.   
If you have read it again, memorize it.   
If you have memorized it, put it into practice.   
You will indeed be able to think, and grow rich…in so many ways.  
  
   
 CLOSING THOUGHTS  
  
What exactly are you thinking? Why? To what purpose? What are you  
desiring? What do you have faith in? Yourself and your right to wealth? To  
what intent do you think what you think, say what you say, do what you  
do   
Here is Napoleon Hill's secret of success explained…   
Clear consistent THOUGHT entwined with fervent desire,  
combined with profound belief entwined with purposeful intent,  
creates the results you consciously choose to have in your life.   
  
Create an ideal, form a plan, affirm its reality and persist until it is  
made manifest. Know that you are given the power to create what  
you desire. Then, just do it.   
  
 "What you think about, you bring about."   
 — Anonymous   
    
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human  
being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."   
— William James   
    
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It  
cannot be changed without changing our thinking."   
— Albert Einstein   
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"We are what we think. With our thoughts, we make our  
world."   
 — The Buddha   
 
SUMMARY 
   
"Do you want wealth? Get the wealth consciousness."  
— Charles Haanel   
  
   
"Successful men and women become successful because they  
acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success."   
— Napoleon Hill   
  
   
"Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can  
achieve."   
 — Napoleon Hill   
  
   
"Think and Grow Rich."   
 — Napoleon Hill  
  
  
   
Hill's closing warning (and I shall make it mine, as well)… fear is the great  
destroyer. Banish fear from your life. It does not serve you in any way.  
Go forward in faith; faith that you have destiny to fulfill. Fear not. There  
is, after all, nothing to fear except fear itself. And it is a mere phantom, a  
ghost that disappears in the light of awareness.   
  
Please feel free to pass this eBook (or the link to it) on to your  
loved ones and any who you feel might be ready for Napoleon  
Hill's timeless, inspirational and motivational message.   
This eBook was brought to you compliments of Leslie Fieger and  
Ed Zivkovic at ezau.com.   
If you want more in depth information about the true science of success,  
please visit the seLFTech Success Library.   
  
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AS A MAN THINKETH - JAMES ALLEN

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