Think and Grow Rich by Napolen Hill

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Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie.

The text of Think and Grow Rich is founded on Hill's earlier work The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill's close association with a large number of individuals who achieved great wealth during their lifetimes.
At Andrew Carnegie's bidding, Hill studied the characteristics of these achievers and developed 16 "laws" of success meant to be applied by people to achieve success. Think and Grow Rich condenses these laws further and provides the reader with 13 principles in the form of a philosophy of personal achievement. International Speaker Mark Victor Hansen says time has proven 2 of the laws/principles to be most important: 1) The MasterMind principle/process and 2) "Know very clearly where you want to go."

It is noted in the book that an individual with desire, faith and persistence can reach great heights by eliminating negative energy and thoughts and focusing on the greater goals in hand.

The 13 "steps" listed in the book are: 1.Desire 2.Faith 3.Autosuggestion 4.Specialized Knowledge 5.Imagination 6.Organized Planning 7.Decision 8.Persistence 9.Power of the Master Mind 10.The Mystery of Sex Transmutation 11.The Subconscious Mind 12.The Brain 13.The Sixth Sense

And my personal opinion? This book is way more better than any modern motivational personal development and self-help books. Because it is one of the first books of this type. Other "motivational" books are just rip off from this book which autors just earn money from misfortune of others.

P.S: You can download it for free...

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) success and growing rich have a lot to do with things outside of our control. Have you read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell? Knowing the facts actually takes a lot of pressure off gaining success, imho.