What Was Napoleon Hill’s Wealth Creation Message?
Two of the concepts that Napoleon Hill became world-famous for were these:
• “Thoughts are things”, and
• “Mastermind” (a term coined by Hill in Think and Grow Rich)
If you think these are clues to the wealth creation message Napoleon Hill brought us, you are absolutely correct.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill took a different tact toward illuminating the keys to wealth creation; unlike Wallace Wattles, he did not explore philosophical or religious theories to arrive at his formula for wealth creation. Hill chose instead to interview hundreds of successful, wealthy people, and extract those traits they had in common that could be credited for their financial successes. His strategy worked beautifully, and what Napoleon Hill left us was a blueprint for living the life of the financially successful.
Hill found that there are, as Andrew Carnegie said there would be, key similarities between the rich and financially successful. These people live in much the same basic manner, and apply their life-theories to their financial endeavors. He was able to identify 13 core principles that the vast majority of wealthy people all exercised in their business and financial dealings.
Mindset Determines Success
Interestingly, although Hill took a different route towards identifying the road to riches, both he and Wattles arrived at the same basic conclusion—mindset determines success in wealth creation.
Hill looked at his 500 subjects, and deduced that the one thing that set them apart from the floundering people of the world is that they set their minds at succeeding in life, committed to their efforts, and remained determined to reach their personal goals for financial success. There are many incidentals that Hill learned along the way, and many, many lessons to be learned in his book, but if there is one thing to take away from Napoleon Hill’s teachings it is that to succeed financially, to enjoy financial freedom and prosperity, you have to develop the mindset to do so. Interesting, isn’t it, that both he and Wattles could come so far around to reach the same conclusion? Maybe there just is something to this concept of developing the wealth creation mindset.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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