Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill — book cover

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill · 1937

Napoleon Hill spent two decades studying 500 of America's richest self-made people and distilled their secret into one idea: a definite, burning desire backed by faith, planning, and relentless persistence is what actually turns thought into money. This is the 1937 blueprint for engineering your own success.

9 min read · 9 chapters · Money

Why it’s on the shelf

Classic study of the success and prosperity mindset drawn from wealthy achievers.

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Think and Grow Rich pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

  1. Replace vague wishing with a burning, definite desire: write down the EXACT amount of money you want, your deadline, and precisely what you'll give in return.
  2. Read your written money statement aloud twice a day (morning and night), seeing and feeling yourself already in possession of it, to feed the goal into your subconscious.
  3. Decide fast and change slowly. Hill's failures were chronic procrastinators; the wealthy reach decisions promptly and stick to them despite opinions from others.

The other 4 — and the full 9-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 9 chapters

The whole summary runs about 9 minutes, read or listened to.

  1. The Secret Behind the Philosophy
  2. Desire: The Starting Point of All Achievement
  3. Faith and Autosuggestion: Programming Your Subconscious
  4. Specialized Knowledge and Imagination
  5. Organized Planning: Turning Desire Into Action
  6. Decision and Persistence
  7. The Master Mind and the Power of Sexual Energy
  8. The Subconscious Mind, the Brain, and the Sixth Sense
  9. How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear

Finish Think and Grow Rich tonight.

Read or listen to the full summary in about 9 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.

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