Summary of Napoleon Hill's Think & Grow Rich Summary Narrated by Earl Nightingale

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Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" outlines the six steps needed to achieve success, including desire, imagination, specialized knowledge, organized planning, and harmony. He also recommends using a mastermind group to help with the accumulation of money. The 10 principles of success are also discussed, which include definiteness of purpose, desire, self-reliance, accuracy of knowledge, willpower, habit, enthusiasm, and the subconscious mind.

• 00:00:00 The six steps to achieving riches outlined in "Think and Grow Rich" are: fixing a desired amount of money in your mind, determining what you will give in return for the money, establishing a date by which you will possess the money, creating a plan to achieve the money, writing out your plan, and reading your plan aloud twice a day. These steps are important because they help to create a clear picture of what you desire and ensure that your desire is strong enough to be fulfilled.
• 00:05:00 Napoleon Hill teaches that it is important to have faith in oneself and the principles of Think and Grow Rich. Through the principle of conscious auto-suggestion, you can put the power of your subconscious mind to work for you. The first step is to repeat a statement of your goal aloud to yourself. The second step is to have faith in yourself and the principles of Think and Grow Rich. The third step is to repeat a statement of your goal to your subconscious mind. The fourth step is to have faith in yourself and the principles of Think and Grow Rich and to write down a description of your goal. The fifth step is to have faith in yourself and the principles of Think and Grow Rich and to succeed by attracting to yourself the forces you wish to use and the cooperation of other people. The sixth step is to eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity.
• 00:10:00 Napoleon Hill outlines the six principles needed to achieve success, including the principles of desire, imagination, specialized knowledge, organized planning, and harmony. He also recommends using a mastermind group to help with the accumulation of money.
• 00:15:00 The eight principles outlined in "Think and Grow Rich" include unwavering courage, self-control, a keen sense of justice, definiteness of decision-making, definiteness of plans, the habit of doing more than paid for, a pleasing personality, sympathy and understanding, mastery of detail, and willingness to assume full responsibility. These principles help a person to be successful. It is also important to have a plan and to cooperate with others, as these qualities will help make the journey easier.
• 00:20:00 Napoleon Hill discusses the 10 principles of success, which include definiteness of purpose, desire, self-reliance, accuracy of knowledge, willpower, habit, enthusiasm, and the subconscious mind. He explains that success is based on a combination of these principles and that having a good woman by your side will help you to maintain enthusiasm and motivation.
• 00:25:00 The sixth sense is the ability to access infinite intelligence through the subconscious mind, which comes through mastery of the other principles of "Think and Grow Rich". This sense is not something that one can take off and put on at will, but it comes slowly through application of the other principles. Many individuals develop the ability to use the sixth sense even before the age of 40, but it is most often not available until one is well past 50.
• 00:30:00 Napoleon Hill discusses the importance of having thoughts and ideas that will lead to success. He explains that thoughts and impulses begin immediately to translate themselves into action, and that it is important to focus on positive goals in order to avoid fear.