On a personal level… this book as been the cause of my life completely changing. If you haven’t read it… you must. It really will revamp your life. Anyone who promotes business and self-development products right now learned what they know from this guy. –>

If you ask anyone who’s anyone in business, they’ll tell you that the 1st business and personal development book they ever read was Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

If you haven’t read it… you should. Seriously.

Here’s why… Napoleon Hill was hired by Andrew Carnegie to interview 500 of the world’s most successful people and find out what their secrets to success were. It took Hill over 20 years to collect this information, and turn it into an easily digestible book for us to read.

The book reveals 13 secrets that ALL of those 500 people had in common. Not one person was different than the other when they revealed their secrets… the specific products that they chose, and the markets they decided to built their wealth in were different… but their main philosophies were the exact same.

So I would think that you would want to know what those 13 secrets are.

But to make it a bit more enticing for you… I’m going to give just ONE of the secrets… but it’s the one that I think is most important. And this secret is the root of everything else.

If you learn how to MASTER this… and I don’t use that word lightly… to master something takes a great deal of dedication and hard work. Someone who has mastered a certain skill did so after years of practice. So it will take you some time to really become a master at this particular skill…

… some people  may take longer than others to master, and that’s perfectly fine. It really isn’t a race.

To explain this secret to you I’m going to start with one of Hill’s most popular quotes:

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”

It sounds like a simple quote, and it is, but there is SO much wisdom and depth behind that quote, that i can literally write 5, 1000 word articles on it. (And maybe I will)

Let’s break that quote down…

First, let’s talk about the human mind.

Einstein said that we only use 10% of our mind’s potential power. Later on, that 10% was given the name of the Conscious Mind. The Other 90% that we don’t use is commonly known as the Subconscious Mind.

He also said that if you can get the 90% of your mind to work in your favor, there is absolutely NOTHING you can’t accomplish.

Why? What’s so special about that 90%? What’s the big deal about the subconscious?

The subconscious is the part of your brain that manages your biological functions. It controls your breathing patterns without putting a single strain on your conscious mind. It controls the growth functions of your body. It controls how your body fights disease and bacteria… and many, MANY more things.

Now, think about this for a second. If you were consciously trying to control your breathing patterns, you would go nuts. The same thing goes with your growth system, your immune system, etc. It is impossible for your conscious mind to handle such a complex and sophisticated process.

Yet, your subconscious does it without “breaking a sweat”.

Here’s another example…

Think about a skill that you’ve developed that you are now a master of. A skill that at one point, you had to consciously think about when you were performing it. A skill that you were very uncomfortable with.

Chances are, you NEEDED to learn that skill because of your professional life or because there was some major necessity for it in your life. And after you practiced it over and over, you became a master at it.

At the master level, that skill or action is now ingrained in your subconscious process. you can perform that action without even thinking abuot it. And you can perform it exceptionally well, too.

Here’s a personal example from  my life: At the time of this article, I can type an average of 85 words per minute (wpm). Not only that, I know exactly what I’m going to say next, and how I am going to organize the content of this article.

Now, the rule of thumb with typing is if you can type 60 wpm… you’re golden.

The thing is, I used to be horrible at typing. I mean I was like those people who stare at the keyboard and use their index fingers to type. At that time, I think I was typing 15 wpm.

And if I was planning to write an article, I would need to draw outlines and write a few drafts before the final product was done.

Fast forward a few years and now I’m just like him. It took a LOT of practice… very frustrating practice… but I got the hang of it and now I am what others would call a “master typer”. Creative title… I know.

During the beginning stages of learning to type, I was using my conscious mind to direct my fingers to the right letters. The after a while, I got the hang of where the letters were and I didn’t have to focus as much on typing with my conscious mind.

Now… I don’t even think about it. I can watch something on TV and still be typing the thoughts on my mind very easily. That’s because the skill has switched over from my conscious mind to my subconscious.

Once a skill, habit, thought pattern is adopted by your subconscious… at that point, you are a master.

So let’s apply this to Hill’s quote… “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

If you get your mind to believe that you’re a hard worker and that your hard work is going to pay off 10 fold… and you truly BELIEVE that… then it will come into fruition.

Or if you want to get better at writing great ads and marketing pieces, solving problems quickly, become a better communicator, or any other skill… you just have to practice enough to move that skill into your subconscious data base.

At that point, performing that skill isn’t going to be a strenuous activity. You’ll flow through it smoothly and finish without breaking a sweat.

There are no if’s, and’s, or buts about it… that’s the law of the universe. If you get your mind to truly believe it… just like you believe that you’re a man or a woman… without a doubt in the back of your mind… it will happen.

This is the main idea behind Think & Grow Rich… to get your mind to work for you. To use it’s infinite powers to bring any of your fantasies and ambitions to life.

The rest of the book goes into specific techniques and ideas for how to get your mind to work for you.

I might end up doing a series on this book just for the hell of it… but till then, you should definitely grab a copy of it and get started. And to help you internalize the information better, you can drop by this blog and post the biggest lessons you learned from the book in the comment section below.Looking forward to reading your comments.

‘Til then…

Arman Vakili