The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons

by Napoleon Hill

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The powerful figure rising above the group represents the “Master Mind” which may be created wherever men blend their minds in a spirit of perfect harmony, with some DEFINITE objective in view.

The next great scientific discovery will be the fact, which already exists, that every human brain is both a broadcasting and a receiving station; that every thought vibration released by the brain may be picked up and interpreted by all other brains that are in harmony, or in “tune” with the rate of vibration of the broadcasting brain.

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this lesson emphasizes at length the importance of making it your business to take a keen interest in other people and in their work, business or profession. This emphasis was by no means an accident.

Through the principle of telepathy you “telegraph” the nature of your character to those with whom you come in contact, which is responsible for what you have often called an “intuitive” feeling that the person whom you had just met but about whom you did not know very much, was not trustworthy.

if there is greed, and envy, and hatred, and jealousy, and avarice, and selfishness in your heart, you will never attract any, except those characters which harmonize with your own.

Like attracts like, and you may be sure therefore, that those who are attracted to you are those whose inward natures parallel your own.

control your thoughts and keep your mind vitalized with thoughts of a positive nature.

Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it.

Here, again, the law of attraction enters, and those whom you praise will see in you the qualities that you see in them.

First: It sets into motion the vibration through which the thought back of your words reaches and imbeds itself in your subconscious mind, where it takes root and grows

Remember that speech is the chief method of expressing your personality, and for this reason it is to your advantage to cultivate a style that is both forceful and pleasing.

The moment you come within speaking distance of such a person, even though not a word is spoken, the influence of the “unseen power within” makes itself felt.

Acquire the habit of making yourself agreeable and you profit both materially and mentally;

Remove the chips from your shoulders and quit challenging men to engage you in useless arguments!

Remove the smoked glasses through which you see what you believe to be the “blueness” of life and behold the shining sunlight of friendliness in its stead.

You can win, for a time, through ruthlessness and stealth; you can garner in more of this world’s goods than you will need by sheer force and shrewd strategy, without taking the time or going to the trouble of being agreeable; but, sooner or later, you will come to that point in life at which you will feel the pangs of remorse and the emptiness of your well-filled purse.

First, to think accurately you must separate facts from mere information. There is much “information” available to you that is not based upon facts. Second, you must separate facts into two classes; namely, the important and the unimportant, or, the relevant and the irrelevant.

The accurate thinker knows that the newspapers are not always accurate in their reports, and he also knows that what “they say” usually carries more falsehood than truth.

If one man slanders another, his remarks should be accepted, if of any weight at all, with at least a grain of the proverbial salt of caution; for it is a common human tendency for men to find nothing but evil in those whom they do not like. The man who has attained to the degree of accurate thinking that enables him to speak of his enemy without exaggerating his faults, and minimizing his virtues, is the exception and not the rule.

Truth, alone, endures. All else must pass on with Time.

No harm can come from accepting, as fact, hearsay evidence that is constructive; but its opposite, if accepted at all, should be subjected to the closest inspection possible under the available means of applying the law of evidence.

insisting on facts as the basis of his business philosophy.

In the field of science relevant facts are the tools with which men and women work.

you can work just as hard in organizing, classifying and using unimportant and irrelevant facts as you can in dealing with their opposites, but you will not accomplish as much.

thought is the highest known form of organized energy.

thinking man has unfolded, expanded and grown until he has projected his thinking ability into infinite intelligence.

man has not yet recognized thought as the connecting link which gives him access to the power of infinite intelligence.

average man is totally at sea the moment he gets beyond that which he can comprehend with the aid of his five physical senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting.

Infinite intelligence works through none of these agencies and we cannot invoke its aid through any of them.

it records the suggestions which you send it through Autosuggestion, and invokes the aid of infinite intelligence in translating these suggestions into their natural physical form,

The plate of the camera does not choose the sort of picture to be recorded on it; it records anything which reaches it through the lens.

You select the picture to be recorded (definite chief aim). Then you fix your conscious mind upon this purpose with such intensity that it communicates with the subconscious mind, through Auto-suggestion, and registers that picture. You then begin to watch for and to expect manifestations of physical realization of the subject of that picture.

Infinite intelligence will not build you a home and deliver that home to you, ready to enter; but infinite intelligence will open the way and provide the necessary means with which you may build your own house.

Infinite intelligence will not throw out the present incumbent of the White House and make you President in his place; but infinite intelligence would most likely proceed, under the proper circumstances, to influence you to prepare yourself to fill that position with credit and then help you to attain it through the regular method of procedure.

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Do not rely upon the performance of miracles for the attainment of the object of your definite chief aim; rely upon the power of infinite intelligence to guide you, through natural channels, and with the aid of natural laws, for its attainment.

Keep this in mind and you will understand why you cannot reasonably expect infinite intelligence to circumvent the natural laws and turn man into the storehouse of all knowledge and all power until he has prepared himself to use this knowledge and power with higher than finite intelligence.

Money-power in the hands of John D. Rockefeller is not only in safe hands, but it is in hands where it is serving mankind throughout the world, blotting out ignorance, destroying contagious disease and serving in a thousand other ways of which the average individual knows nothing.

They are: Autosuggestion, the Subconscious Mind, Creative Thought and Infinite Intelligence. These are the four roadways over which you must travel in your upward climb in quest of knowledge.

Creative Thought. This means thought of a positive, non-destructive, creative nature.

This is called suggestion. It is transmitting your confidence and power to another, and with such force as to make the other believe as you wish and do as you will. It need not be hypnotism.

The imaginative faculty of the human mind is a marvelous piece of mental machinery, but it may, and usually does, play queer tricks on us unless we keep constantly on guard and control it.

This may seem impossible, but you can easily test the principle by the following procedure: You wish to get up at seven o’clock tomorrow morning, or at some hour other than your regular time to awaken. Say to yourself, as you are about ready to go to sleep, “I must arise at seven o’clock tomorrow without fail.” Repeat this several times, at the same time impressing the fact upon your mind that you must actually arise at the precise moment mentioned. Turn this thought over to your subconscious mind with absolute confidence that you will awaken at seven o’clock, and when that hour arrives your subconscious mind will awaken you.

To learn how to THINK ACCURATELY, the teaching of which is the sole object of this lesson, one must thoroughly understand:

That the mind can be controlled,

That the mind can be directed to destructive ends,

That the mind has power over every cell of the body,

That all achievement of man is the result of thought,