Napoleon Hill: What The Mind Can Conceive It Can Achieve
In this video, Napoleon Hill talks about his meeting with Andrew Carnegie and how he was inspired to create a philosophy of success.
Napoleon Hill pioneered the study of success. Although inspirational books and speeches about self-improvement date back to the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, Hill interviewed the richest and most successful men of his time and developed a comprehensive philosophy of personal success, outlining all the success factors that went into achievement.
Think and Grow Rich, which initiated the genre of success literature, has become an all-time best seller, and his aphorism, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve,” has almost become a hallmark expression amongst high achievers.
Napoleon Hill, born in a humble one-room cabin in Pound, an Appalachian town in Southwest Virginia, weathered a difficult childhood. His mother died when he was nine and his father remarried two years later. He began work at age 15, as a reporter for Wise County newspapers. Although he saved to go to law school, he soon withdrew because of insufficient funds.
In 1908, in an interview with Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest and most powerful men of his era, Hill got his biggest breakthrough in life. Carnegie, impressed by the young reporter’s interest in success principles, commissioned him, without pay, to discover the secret of success. Furnished with a letter of reference, Hill embarked on his life’s mission: to interview 500 of the most successful men and women in America.
This project lasted 20 years. His interview included Alexander Graham Bell, Charles M. Schwab, Charles Allen Ward, Elmer Gates, F.W. Woolworth, George Eastman, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Joseph Stalin, John Wanamaker, Jennings Randolph, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Wrigley Jr., William Jennings Bryan, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. During this time, Hill also worked for two presidents as a writer, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
By 1928, Hill published his findings in a study course called, The Law of Success. He later called his teachings, "The Philosophy of Achievement."
He finally condensed this new philosophy in Think and Grow Rich, where he hinted at the law of attraction as the essence of success. He believed that when a person developed a "Definite Major Purpose” and followed success principles, he would stimulate the law of attraction to create overflowing riches.
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