The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons

by Napoleon Hill

That the greatest of all achievements,

are usually the results of ideas conceived in one man’s brain but ACTUALLY TRANSFORMED INTO REALITY BY OTHER MEN, through the combined use of their minds and bodies.

The majority of all thoughts conceived in the minds of men are not ACCURATE, being more in the nature of “opinions”

the next great cycle of discovery lies in the realm of the human mind.

This explains the necessity for guarding closely the environment from which we receive suggestions, and by which we are subtly and quietly influenced at times and in ways of which we do not take cognizance through the conscious mind.

the very first step in the achievement of any definite chief aim is to create a definite picture of that which is desired. This picture is then placed in the conscious mind, through the Law of Concentration, and held there (through the formulas described in next lesson) until the subconscious section of the mind picks it up and translates it into its ultimate and desired form.

We first create the objective toward which we are striving, through the imaginative faculty of the mind, then transfer an outline of this objective to paper by writing out a definite statement of it in the nature of a definite chief aim.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

DESIRE is the seed of all achievement;

therefore wishes are of little or no value unless they are crystallized into the more definite form of DESIRE.

the Law of Attraction which causes elements and forces of a similar nature to gather around certain centers of attraction.

First, we picture in our conscious minds, through a definite chief aim

we then focus our conscious mind upon this objective,

until the subconscious section of the mind takes up the picture or outline of this objective and impels us to take the necessary physical action...

All suggestions coming from others, or from environment, influence us only after we have accepted them

no one may influence another without the consent of the one influenced,

Write out a clear, concise statement

Make at least two copies of your statement,

“The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy –invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

seems appropriate to state here that a strong desire, to be transformed into reality, must be backed with persistency until it is taken over by the subconscious mind.

for its mastery will open to you a source of knowledge which cannot be imparted by one man to another,

Thoughts are things!

Positive belief in the attainment of your definite purpose is the very germ with which you fertilize the “egg of your thought” and if you fail to give it this fertilization,

Thoughts are things! This is a great truth which,when

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Thought is a much higher and more perfectly organized form of energy than is mere sound;

few people ever understand that failure is a curse only when it is accepted as such. But few ever learn the truth that FAILURE is seldom permanent.

failures generally turned out to be blessings in disguise.

Failure teaches men lessons which they would never learn without it. Moreover, it teaches in a language that is universal.

If you have a strong body and a sound mind you have much for which you ought to be thankful. Millions of people all about you have no such blessings.

“Concentration is the act of focusing the mind upon a given desire until ways and means for its realization have been worked out and successfully put into operation.”

Habit grows out of environment–out of doing the same thing in the same way over and over again–out of repetition–out of thinking the same thoughts over and over–and, when once formed, it resembles a cement block that has hardened in the mold–in that it is hard to break. Habit is the basis of all memory training, a fact which you may easily demonstrate in remembering the name of a person whom you have just met, by repeating that name over and over until you have fixed it permanently and plainly in your mind.

You of course understand that “environment” is the sum total of sources through which you are influenced by and through the aid of the five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling.

If you have to walk over a field or through a forest, you know how natural it is for you to choose the clearest path in preference to the less worn ones,

remember this always–the best (and one might say the only) way in which old habits may be removed is to form new habits to counteract and replace the undesirable ones.

Remember that you are taking the first steps toward making the new mental path; that it is much harder at first than it will be afterwards.

every time you yield to the temptation, the easier does it become to yield again, and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

Through habit, an act repeatedly performed in the same manner has a tendency to become Permanent,

Auto-suggestion is the tool with which we dig a mental path; Concentration is the hand that holds that tool; and Habit is the map or blueprint which the mental path follows.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

Remember that every word spoken within your hearing, every sight that reaches your eyes, and every sense impression that you receive through any of the five senses, influences your thought

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“What is this Magic Key?” And I answer with one word–concentration!

Concentration, in the sense in which it is here used, means the ability, through fixed habit and practice, to keep your mind on one subject until you have thoroughly familiarized yourself with that subject and mastered it.

Nothing was ever created by a human being which was not first created in the imagination, through desire, and then transformed into reality through concentration.

All great truths are simple in final analysis,

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do you not see how it is possible that the laws which affect matter may also govern the mind?

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that every thought that has ever been released in organized form, from the mind of any human being, is still in existence in the form of a wave in the ether, and is constantly passing around and around in a great endless circle;