Vansh
5 min readSep 8, 2022

9 Life lessons from Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.

Hey, guys think and grow rich has been one of the first recommended books of many successful people.

"You either control your mind, or it controls you." - by Napoleon Hill

Many people have made their fortunes through this book, who were once suffering from life. This book has been one of the most popular and memorable self improvement book ever written. It's author Napoleon hill was a great author.
This book has been listed among top 10 self improvement books ever written.
And now this is your moment to harness its great power and value. You can change your own life through the life lessons which we are going to list below.

9 life lessons to learn from Think and grow rich.

1.Change your mindset

Your mindset contributes to 80% of your outcome. Your positive approach towards life impacts you in every aspect of your life.

"Success comes to those who become success conscious, Failure come to those who allow themselves to become Failure conscious." - by Napoleon hill

Your strong mindset is created by a strong desire to achieve your goal and faith in yourself. 
Napoleon Bonaparte's strong mindset was the fundamental thing which motivated him to climb through mount alps, which is one of the dangerous places of world.

2.Unwavering desire

Strong desire is created through continuous communication with yourself.
Your desire to achieve keeps you going in your toughest times. Your desire should not be an ordinary wish rather it should be a strong desire.
The gold is most of the time just three steps below the ground and it is your desire for gold which acts as a fuel to keep you going.
Steps to create a strong desire:
1. Take a piece of paper.
2. Write your desire on it.
3. Repeat it every day at least two times. 
3.Faith

This intangible force is one of the most important factors of success you can create faith through auto suggestion.
Auto suggestion is created by visualization and affirmations. You can send these messages to your sub concious mind. 
Your sub conscious mind is impacted by your culture, surrounding and in fact with the self talk.
The things you watch on Television, phone through social media.

4.Specialize knowledge

Cluttering your mind with random piece of data and knowledge is not at all important, but the specialize knowledge which implies most.
Henry ford is big example of this rather than cluttering his own mind with whole information of car rather he surrounded himself with specialized people, who can answer him anything, he wanted to ask.
Ford was not formally educated but he insisted on specialized knowledge. 
So, Gain as much knowledge you can but which is most reliable and relevant to your work.

5.Believe and then Achieve

It is often said that human mind is capable of doing wonder if it try enough, then it can even force nature to bend its law. And we are just programmed to never believe in our own capabilities from our society and surrounding but if you believe enough in your own self then you can literally achieve whatever you want.

6.Make a plan

A action without any layoff will be quite messy and slow, whereas with a plan it will be guided throughout thus your resources will be saved.
if you can’t write your plan on one page with crystal clarity then you need to work more on your plan first.
When you know where you are going then only you will end there.
To create a plan follow the following steps:
1. Take a piece of paper.
2. Write everything down from your mind.
3. Organize it on timeline(Daily, Weekly, monthly, yearly etc).

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries it with a seed of an equal or greater benefit." - by Napoleon hill

7.Avoid procrastination

Nothing is worse than having guilt of not doing something that you were capable of. Many people on their deathbed often give this as their most important lesson to never ever leave work for tomorrow because once you have delayed your work. Then the importance of that work become very low for your sub conscious brain and you end up never doing it.

8.Sexual transmutation

Many great personalities have emphasized the importance of abstaining from any sexual activity. It is a form of discipline you create that give you sense of importance of your work. Moreover many ancient scriptures have aimed at preserving the man’s essence and channeling it for greater purpose.

9.Harness the power of sub conscious mind

Your mind work at two very basic levels

Conscious and sub conscious brains.

And your sub conscious brain can change your life. It can solve any issues you are dealing with. It just need to be programmed that way to give you enough ideas and thoughts

You can programm your brain with different tools like

1. Affirmations

2. Visualization

3. And many more.

Your sub conscious mind is initially being programmed by your parents, relatives, friends, teachers, etc.

Conclusion

You can always change where you will end up if you consciously program your mind with self empowering thoughts and implement the above lessons which have been proven to be a second nature of most successful and happy people. It's just your mindset, desire and willingness to achieve and you can achieve whatever you believe.

Now, here comes the main lesson of think and grow rich.

It is a very fundamental thing it states that human mind have enormous power and we can do anything with the mix of desir and faith it will impact your mindset for better life.

If you want to read about all the topics in detail then pls take a step forward and read this book

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