"Think And Grow Rich", by Napoleon Hill

Ha, we meet again.

This chapter was quite short, only about seven (7) pages in total.

Would you agree that so far this book sounds more psychological than financial? Or do the two topics work in tandem?

“Autosuggestion”, also known as “self-suggestion” as defined in the book is “a term which applies to all suggestions and all self-administered stimuli which reach one’s mind through the five senses.”

How I view this statement is seeing it as having control over your subconscious mind. ‘Suggesting’ specific ideas which then get relayed to the subconscious mind and eventually transmutes the thoughts into its physical equivalent. All in all you are permitting certain thoughts to float around in your head. It is YOUR decision as to whether or not you react or think a specific way depending on what you suggest to yourself.

Remember when you wrote about faith, sex and love? Yeah, it came right back. For any thought or idea to be manifested emotion has to be intertwined in the mix. Emotionless thinking never stimulates the subconscious mind, keep that at the forefront your cranium.

Some vocab for the day:

• transmute: change in form, nature or substance.

• scepticism: doubt as to the truth of something.

• construe: interpret (a word or action) in a particular way.

Some lines that hit different:

• “Through the dominating thoughts which one permits to remain in the conscious mind, (whether these thoughts be negative or positive is immaterial), the principle of autosuggestion voluntarily reaches the subconscious mind and influences it with these thoughts.”

• “Nature has so built man that he has absolute control over the material which reaches his subconscious mind, through his five senses, although this is not meant to be construed as a statement that man always exercises this control.”

• “Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.”

• “You, and you alone, must decide whether or not the reward for which you are striving (“the money consciousness”), is worth the price you must pay for it in effort.”

• “Many philosophers have made the statement that man is the master of his own destiny, but most them have failed to say why he is the master….Man may become the master of himself, and his environment, because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.”

Have you repeating your written definite purpose/plan out loud? Day and night? Print it and place it on your wall or somewhere visible. I can’t stop stressing how powerful the mind is. Later.