Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
Hill's 1937 book claims to distill the habits of the richest men of his era into thirteen principles: desire, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, planning, decision, persistence, the mastermind and more. Historians have questioned his interview claims and some chapters veer into the occult. The practical core, a definite goal, a written plan, a group of allies and daily repetition, is sound and has outlived the mythology.
Read it if…
you want the source text of the modern success genre and can separate the method from the mysticism.
Skip it if…
you need verifiable claims or dislike florid, repetitive prose.
Three things you will actually use
- Decide exactly what you want and when.
- Form or join a small mastermind that meets regularly.
- Persist past the point where most people quit.
Do this first
Write a definite chief aim with a date and a plan, and read it aloud morning and night for a month.
Our verdict
Influential, flawed and still useful; read the principles, ignore the séances.
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