Think and Grow Rich®: The Original, an Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation®
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When harnessed, and redirected along other lines, this motivating force maintains all of its attributes of keenness of imagination, courage, etc., which may be used as powerful creative forces in literature, art, or in any other profession or calling, including, of course, the accumulation of riches.
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If it is not transmuted into some creative effort it will find a less worthy outlet.
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Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.
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1. The men of greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures; men who have learned the art of sex transmutation.
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2. The men who have accumulated great fortunes and achieved outstanding recognition in literature, art, industry, architecture, and the professions, were motivated by the influence of a woman.
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When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.
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Understand this truth, and you will catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius.
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Destroy the sex glands, whether in man or beast, and you have removed the major source of action.
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Sex alteration takes out of the male, whether man or beast, all the FIGHT that was in him. Sex alteration of the female has the same effect.
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The stimuli to which the mind responds most freely are:— 1. The desire for sex expression 2. Love 3. A burning desire for fame, power, or financial gain, MONEY 4. Music 5. Friendship between either those of the same sex, or those of the opposite sex. 6. A Master Mind alliance based upon the harmony of two or more people who ally themselves for spiritual or temporal advancement. 7. Mutual suffering, such as that experienced by people who are persecuted. 8. Auto-suggestion 9. Fear 10. Narcotics and alcohol.
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From this study, it will be readily seen that the emotion of sex is, by great odds, the most intense and powerful of all mind stimuli.
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A better definition of a genius is, “a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought.”
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This sixth sense is “Creative Imagination.” The faculty of creative imagination is one which the majority of people never use during an entire lifetime, and if used at all, it usually happens by mere accident.
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The faculty of creative imagination is the direct link between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence.
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All so-called revelations, referred to in the realm of religion, and all discoveries of basic or new principles in the field of invention, take place through the faculty of creative imagination.
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The creative imagination functions best when the mind is vibrating (due to some form of mind stimulation) at an exceedingly high rate.
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When lifted to this higher level of thought, through any form of mind stimulation, an individual occupies, relatively, the same position as one who has ascended in an airplane to a height from which he may see over and beyond the horizon line which limits his vision, while on the ground.
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While on this exalted plane of THOUGHT, the creative faculty of the mind is given freedom for action.
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The great artists, writers, musicians, and poets become great, because they acquire the habit of relying upon the “still small voice” which speaks from within, through the faculty of creative imagination.
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When asked why he closed his eyes just before the climaxes of his oratory, he replied, “I do it, because, then I speak through ideas which come to me from within.”
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One of America’s most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision.
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“With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of supe...
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Some of the largest corporations in America paid him substantial fees, by the hour, for “sitting for ideas.”
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Not all knowledge, which one accumulates through “experience,” is accurate.
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The major difference between the genius and the ordinary “crank” inventor, may be found in the fact that the genius works through his faculty of creative imagination, while the “crank” knows nothing of this faculty.
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The pages of history are filled with the records of great leaders whose achievements may be traced directly to the influence of women who aroused the creative faculties of their minds, through the stimulation of sex desire.
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Napoleon was not the only man to discover that sex influence, from the right source, is more powerful than any substitute of expediency, which may be created by mere reason.
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Find, if you can, a single man, in all history of civilization, who achieved outstanding success in any calling, who was not driven by a well developed sex nature.
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Sex energy is the creative energy of all genii.
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There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder, or artist lacking in this driving force of sex.
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The mere possession of this energy is not sufficient to produce a genius. The energy must be transmuted from desire for physical contact, into some other form of desire and action, before it will lift one to the status of a genius.
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I discovered, from the analysis of over 25,000 people that men who succeed in an outstanding way, seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty.
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One of America’s most able business men frankly admitted that his attractive secretary was responsible for most of the plans he created.
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Edgar Allen Poe wrote the “Raven” while under the influence of liquor, “dreaming dreams that mortal never dared to dream before.”
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People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by “feelings.”
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The creative faculty of the mind is set into action entirely by emotions, and not by cold reason.
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Through these sources one may commune with Infinite Intelligence, or enter, at will, the storehouse of the subconscious mind, either one’s own, or that of another person, a procedure which is all there is of genius.
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A teacher, who has trained and directed the efforts of more than 30,000 sales people, made the astounding discovery that highly sexed men are the most efficient salesmen.
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the factor of personality known as “personal magnetism” is nothing more no...
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Through cultivation and understanding, this vital force may be drawn upon and used to great advantage in th...
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People who lack sex energy will never become enthusiastic nor inspire others with enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is one of the most important requisites in salesmanship, no matter what one is selling.
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Master salesmen attain the status of mastery in selling, because they, either consciously, or unconsciously, transmute the energy of sex into SALES ENTHUSIASM!
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The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not.
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