Think and grow rich.[brief summary]

Think and grow rich

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“Think and grow rich” this single book had made many people rich and had made them many fortunes which no book has ever done.

So let’s begin.

Napoleon hill was a journalist and writer who fortunately got the chance to take interview of the richest person of that time Andrew Carnegie. Interview was going well but then Carnegie kept a very serious offer before him.

Carnegie said that i know that most of the people will fail during the process of getting successful while trying to figure out everything themselves. But the reality is that the principles for becoming successful are universal. As laws of gravity and motion can’t be change. The principle of getting rich can’t be changed.

 So it will be better for people to understand that principles from us rather than investing any of their important time. Therefore i want you to make a book that should contain the wisdom and knowledge of the world’s most successful people that will help the people to achieve success quickly. I will give you opportunity to interview the world’s most rich and successful people by my contacts but thing is i will only give you money for travelling and nothing more.

So will you like to accept my offer?

After thinking for few seconds Napoleon accepted the offer.

After that he researched for about 20 years on 500 world’s most rich and successful people and created a wonderful book. I am giving you a brief summary of that book.

So let’s come to the topic.

1.      DESIRE

·        Having a burning desire to achieve your goals

a.      Fix the amount of money you want

b.     Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire

c.      Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire

d.     Create a definite plan

e.      Write down everything

f.       Read it daily

2.      Knowledge

1. General

2. Specialize

                  3. Imagination

·        Men can create anything which he can imagine

4                       4.Persistence

5                       5.The power of mastermind

1)     DESIRE:

·        Having a burning desire to achieve your goals

Example: when seeing a sports car many people will say I wish I had this type of car but on the other hand, person with strong desire says I like this Ferrari Enzo . I will have it one day for sure. The stronger the desire will be more will be the chances of that person to complete that task.

A good example of strong desire is: In 1519 Harden Curtis went to a foreign land through seaways for conquering that land. His aim was to make that land on his name. It was his desire that he wanted to complete at any cost. But when he reached that land with his 500 soldiers he saw his enemies were much more in number. Then by seeing this, Harden ordered his soldiers to burn all his ships.

Why? Because he wanted to win that battle anyway but if the ships will be there then their soldiers may think to go back and run away. So he burnt his ships and said “Either we die or win”. Because of this emotional phrase and dangerous decision, his soldiers fought with their full strength and achieved victory.

This is extreme desire that don’t even think of his life.

Well, I am not suggesting you to endanger your lives.    

But at least you should devote your time and hard work for your dreams.

But the author says that we can also use it for money desire in reality in 6 steps.

These are:

a.      Fix the amount of money you want:

Decide exact amount that you want to live a good life. Because if you don’t know the fix amount then you will become like a ship which is went for a journey but don’t know its destination. So there are more chances that the boat will never achieve any goal. Therefore it is important to fix the amount of money you want anyhow for a living a good life.

b.     Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire:

Now think what sacrifices you can do to get that amount of money what you fixed. Because success needs sacrifice i.e. nothing but time, money, and hard work .

e.g.   I can sacrifice 6 hrs of time 2 hrs of sleep and 8 hrs of hard work.

Because it is a universal law that you have to pay something to get something.

c.      Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire:

Decide a date up to which you want to earn the amount of money you fixed.

d.     Create a definite plan:  

Create any plan and start to implement that don’t think about creating a perfect plan because there is nothing like a perfect plan. So start taking actions immediately. Because if you will take more time to plan then you may never start working.

e.      Write down everything:

Take one book and write the answers of the all that four things that are written above. Because it will give you a direct start that will help you do your task.

f.       Read it daily:

Read the things you have written i that book at least twice a day. And read it loudly repeat it like this it will fit in your subconscious mind. Which are very important to think and grow rich.

2)      Knowledge:

There are two types of knowledge :

1.      General

2.      Specialize

1.      General: 

Here the problem is most of people fill their mind with general knowledge from their childhood like general knowledge, facts and figures which usually don’t help us in our real life in anyway.

2.      Specialize:

But the successful people fill their mind with specialize knowledge of one field.

And that specialize knowledge also help them to make money in real life.

e.g. a doctor with a normal clinic doing general treatment do not make as much money as a doctor who has specialize in one organ like heart or eyes.

Once  a news paper mentioned Henry ford as a ignorant pessimist and was mentioned as a very bad person therefore Henry ford sued them and when the questioning begin in court then opposition lawyer started to do stupid questions like who was Benedict Arnold? And how many soldiers British sent to America to put rebellion down in 1776?  And many offensive questions . Hearing all that shit his brain cracked and he shouted by showing finger : hey  if I really have to answer these foolish questions you have been asking me remember!! There are bunch of electronic push buttons inside my desk by pressing right button I can call any person who can answer me all that questions that you have been asking me including the questions related to my business now can you tell me why  I should remember all that general knowledge that will be never useful to me and can get answer by just pressing a button!!

After hearing this question that lawyer paused and the people present there also agreed that his question is logical. Everyone knew that the Henry Ford is not an ignorant but is an extremely intelligent intellectual.

Most of the people do a mistake that they fill their mind with useless information which will never make anything for them and our education system is also contributing in this. Therefore author suggests you should specialise in one field rather than learning basics of every field. Just become a master of one field like nobody can. Because only that specialised knowledge can grow you rich.

3)      Imagination:

·        Men can create anything which he can imagine

In around last 150 years the humans have achieved that they never achieved in entire history.

Example:

1.      If you go 150 years back, and say ‘a time will come when people will sit in a metal chamber and will fly from one country to another in few hour the people may have considered you as a fool’. But now it has became a reality in the form of aeroplane and helicopter. Because of thinking like Henry ford it has become possible to travel in a car rather than a horse cart.

2.      Only by dial of some numbers on a solid sheet(mobile phone) we can talk to a person present in another country. It was also a unbelievable imagination which now a child can also do. Like this the billion Dollar businesses have set up in this world. So to grow rich you also have to do same kind of imagination.

Here the imagination can be divided in to two groups:

a.      Synthetic

b.      Creative

a.      Synthetic:

Synthetic means to observe others ideas and modify them or to mix up two ideas or to improve the same idea and make it a new idea it is very common imagination which come with experience and observation.

b.      Creative:

These are new ideas which have never been discovered.

4)      Persistence:

Desire and persistence together make a special formula that can make anyone successful.

Example: Once there was a partially deaf boy once his teacher posted a notice to his mother that “your son is stupid. He can’t do anything in his life please keep your child at home”. Then his mother replied that “my son is not a stupid. I will teach my son and he will become successful person. After all that his son got a burning desire to achieve success one example of his persistence is invention of light bulb.

             Yes, he was Thomas Edison, he failed around 1000 times but never gave up and invented a light bulb. He says he haven’t failed 1000 times but he got 1000 ways how not to make light bulb. This is actually called true persistence.

           Another great example of persistence is Colonel Sanders who took secret chicken recipe of his mother and went to search a partner who can help him to make that recipe famous after he become insolvent at the age of 65 but as expected no one was interested in his idea but after 1009 times rejection finally one person accepted his offer after that his life changed he became millionaire in few years. And now KFC has became a big brand that we all new. It became true only because of persistence of Colonel. We all should be persistent until we achieve our goal. We all have to make our dreams true because we can.

5)      The power of mastermind:

We all become like that 5 people with whom we spend our most of time. It means if you spend your most of your time with 5 positive and successful people the chances you will become positive and successful but if you will spend most of your time with negative and unsuccessful people the chances are that you will become unsuccessful in life. This is a point to think because mostly you will see unsuccessful people are always surrounded by negative people who always discourage them and tell them negative thoughts so he ignores all the good and positive things he learned in his life. It is impossible not to do it but on the other hand the positive people spend their most of time with positive and successful people who always encourage them and help him to achieve success. We all humans are social creatures who are mostly influenced by their society.

Example: if a person is in the group where everyone smoke the chances are he is already smoking or will start smoking in near future.

Therefore try to spend most of your time with positive and successful people.

Follow the social media groups which will keep you positive and try to speak like positive and successful people.

         All these points are from one of my favourite book think and grow rich.

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            So best of luck!!

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