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September 5 - October 11, 2020
It gives one persistence and perseverance in the pursuit of one’s major purpose in life.
It is a virtue when controlled and directed to the attainment of desirable ends. It is a fault when neglected and permitted to lead to acts of lust.
It is next to the top of the list. There is but one thing of greater importance to human beings. That is accurate thought.
knowledge of the true functions of sex and ability to think accurately are the two things of greatest importance to mankind?
Accurate thinking comes first because it is the solution to all man’s problems,
No one can be entirely free—spiritually, mentally, physically, and economically—without learning the art of accurate thinking.
A The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits. Its destructiveness consists in its tendency to influence people to guess instead of searching for the facts when they form opinions, create ideas, or organize plans. The habit develops a grasshopper mind—one that jumps from one thing to another but never completes anything.
From there it is only a step or two until one is bound by the law of hypnotic rhythm which automatically prohibits accurate thinking.
Wise men keep their plans to themselves and refrain from expressing uninvited opinions. This prevents others from appropriating their ideas and makes it difficult for others to interfere with their plans.
The person who insists on talking seldom has an opportunity to learn by listening to others.
No single quality adds more to one’s personality than the ability to speak with emotional feeling, force, and conviction, but the speaker must not impose his speech upon others without being invited to do so.
is the person who writes uninvited letters to people of prominence.
A Habits are contagious. Every habit attracts a flock of its relatives. The habit of doing anything that is useless leads to the formation of other habits that are useless, especially the habit of drifting.
Thieves and confidence men and racketeers pay big prices for the names and addresses of the writers of uninvited letters, knowing as they do the writers of these letters become easy victims of all manner of schemes that result in the loss of their money.
There is no human being now living, no human being has ever lived, and no human being ever will live with the right or the power to deprive another human being of the inborn privilege of free and independent thought.
Hill distinguishes our right to have independent thoughts from our uninvited expression of those thoughts.
Let them lean upon the only dependable power available to any human being. Q And what is that? A Themselves! The power of their own thoughts. The only power they can control and may rely upon. The only power which cannot be perverted, colored, modified, and falsified by their dishonest fellow human beings.
You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions.
we can truly only change ourselves and how we react to others.
I have frankly told you that my two most effective devices for mastering human beings are the habit of drifting and the law of hypnotic rhythm. I have shown you that drifting is not a natural law, but a man-made habit which leads to man’s submission to the law of hypnotic rhythm.
A Yes. Indeed, learning from adversity is the third of the seven principles. But few people know that every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
A That is just the point. I take them over after they quit trying. If they knew the difference between temporary defeat and failure, they would not quit when they meet with opposition from life.
Success usually is but one short step beyond the point where one quits fighting.
No, that is the least of what one might learn. I hate to tell you this, but failure often serves as a blessing in disguise because it breaks the grip of hypnotic rhythm and frees the mind for a fresh start.
laws. Nature does not take away a human being’s freedom of thought through hypnotic rhythm. The individual gives up his freedom by abuse of this law. If a man jumped from a tree and was killed by the sudden impact of his body with the earth, through the law of gravity, you wouldn’t say nature murdered him, would you?
