January 24, 2011

Think & Grow Rich Most people in today’s society define success as someone who makes a lot of money or has done something important to help form today’s society. People such as Bill Gates or Donald Trump are considered successful because they have lots of money. Even actors whose lives are wrecked and destroyed are considered successful because of the money they have. Others, like Thomas Edison, are considered successful because of accomplishments they achieved in their lives. Thomas Edison, for example, created the light bulb, so most people would consider him successful. In his book, Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill gives 13 steps on how to have the right mindset, attitude, and ability to become successful. The
If you don’t work hard, you will never get any closer towards achieving your goals. Finally, you must practice all the traits to thinking rich. Success requires hard work. Without it, it will never be found. The seventh step towards thinking and growing rich is to be able to make decisions. You must be able to make firm, prompt decisions. Being decisive is key. People won’t follow or depend on you if you can’t make decisive decisions that you stick with. Being persistent is the eighth step in thinking rich. Most people just give up on their dreams after their first failure. But everyone is going to stumble and fall. Everyone is going to have bumps in the road. But in order to go places in life and to grow, you must be able to overcome those adversities. No matter what, you must push forward and work towards your goal. A great example of this is Thomas Edison. He tried thousands of was to make a light bulb. Of all those times, only one of those tries worked. What does that mean? That means he failed thousands of times. When asked about this, he said, “I didn’t fail a thousand times. I found a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.” So how was he able to accomplish this? He was persistent. He never quit trying even though he failed a bunch of times. In the end, he was successful and invented what some would say is one of the greatest most important inventions ever. Power of the master mind is hills ninth step. In this chapter, Hill talked about picking the