I want to welcome you to the 13 Steps to Riches Series!

This video is going to be the start of a brand new in-depth playlist series in which we'll

get to dive into one of the biggest successful books of all time in the personal development

space that has made the biggest impact to me personally and to millions of people around

the world.

And that very book that I'm talking about is called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon

Hill.

Here's some intriguing facts about it!

Originally the book was published in 1937 and surprisingly, by the latest record in

2015, Think and Grow Rich has sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

How this book was created is quite fascinating.

It was created by a man named Napoleon Hill who interviewed and studied the habits of

more than 500 of the richest men and women in the early 19th Century, many of them who

started life in poverty, with little education or influence.

It took Hill over 20 years to compile all the wisdom from these interviews into a book

containing 13 main principles of how anyone can change his or her way of thinking and

become rich.

Among these men were many famous historical figures such as Henry Ford $200 billion dollars

(adjusted for inflation), Theodore Roosevelt $125 million, John D Rockefeller $318.3 billion,

Thomas Edison $170 Millon, Wilbur Wright $10 million.

And many more...

Almost every successful entrepreneur in today's modern age such as Tony Robbins, Dan Lok,

Brian Tracy, John Maxwell, has been impacted from this book.

And since this book contains so much powerful principles, I've noticed there's a common

issue for many first time readers finding themselves not completely understanding couple

of the important chapters from the book.

So that is why I'm creating this 13 steps to riches series dissecting each principle

aka each chapter into a fun simple format to help you visually learn the important key

lessons that Napoleon hill conveys.

So... without further delay, let's begin.

Before we dive into the 1st Step to Riches which will be in the next video, Hill demonstrates

the power of your thoughts and how it has the power to shape your life and in this chapter,

it sets itself up as the foundation of the book.

One of the greatest strengths of this book that I always appreciated was how Hill used

real life stories with the lessons.

Let's take a look how the power of thought comes into play...

There's a story about a man named Darby, who became one of the most successful insurance

salesman in the country.

He used to share a powerful life experience he had with the Gold Rush back when it was

booming.

He went there with his uncle and after weeks of labor, they've suddenly struck gold in

the midst of their mining.

In the beginning, things looked great!

It was so successful that they brought a drill, but then something unexpected happened.

There seemed to be no more gold left as they mined further into the ground.

They continued to drill on, desperately trying to pick up any gold, but unfortunately, there

was no sign of it.

At the end, they finally decided there's no use of trying to mine anymore and so they

quit.

They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars and took the train back

home.

But here's where the story gets interesting.

The junk man who bought the machinery called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and

do a little calculating.

An astonishing discovery was made by the hired engineer that the project had failed because

the owners were not familiar with fault lines.

And even more surprising was their calculations showed that the gold would be found just three

feet from where the Darby's had stop drilling and that is exactly where they found all the

hidden surplus of gold.

You can already guess what happened after that.

The junkman took millions of dollars of gold in from the mine all because he knew well

enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.

Let's observe what happened from this story…

Napoleon Hill points out that...

Darby and his uncle thought there was no gold left, so he thought there's no use to continue

on and gave up.

On the other hand...

The junkman thought about not giving up on the abandoned project, went the extra miles,

and at the end, reaped success.

Hill demonstrates success comes to those who are success conscious.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken

by temporary defeat.

In fact, one of the main weakness of mankind is the average person's familiarity to the

word impossible.

To add to this lesson, the 21st Century Revised Version of Think & Grow Rich provides a modern

example about Steven Spielberg, one of the all-time greatest Motion Pictures directors.

There's a funny story in the movie industry how Steven broke to University Studios and

eventually became a movie director.

Before he was famous or anything, Steven took a Universal Studios tour, which enables visitors

to take a good look inside at the movie business.

Steven somehow snuck off from the tour group and hid between two stages until the tour

ended.

When he left at the end of the day, he said few words to the gate guard.

Afterwards, day after day he went back to the studio for 3 months.

He walked past the guards, waved at him and he waved back.

What's funny is he always wore a suit and carried a briefcase, letting the guards assume

he was one of the students with a summer job in the studio.

He got to the point of becoming friends with the directors, writers, and editors.

He even got to become friends with the head of the production of the Universal Studios

television arm, and one day got to show the director his college film project which impressed

him so much that he placed Steven Spielberg under the contract with the studio.

Over the next few years, Steven Spielberg directed several movies including the popular

Indiana Jones series, Jaws, and later directed Jurassic Park which became a hit at the time

as the most successful movie in history.

And we saw with Steven Spielberg, becoming a movie director dominated his thoughts so

much that we went beyond what others would do, sneaking into guarded buildings to get

the chance to become friends with a directors.

Remember this lesson.

In order to achieve something great, your thoughts has a great effect on your actions

and habits which ultimately has an effect on your outcome.

That is why it's important to change our minds from failure consciousness to success

consciousness.

So before we continue to the next chapters...

Question for you.

Assuming wealth is what you want to accomplish, are you determined enough and willing to try

harder to achieve it, no matter what and how many times you'll face adversities?

Think about that...

Hey everyone!

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For example, I usually enjoy listening to audiobooks the most when I am driving or when

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Sometimes I'll pause it when I'll do a set and then I'll resume listening to the

audiobook when I'm resting.

So, let's say you're commuting to work or wherever you're headed, if you just add the

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I truly believe if more people read or listen to Think & Grow Rich, the principles learned

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Which is Desire, the starting point of all achievement.