Inspirational. This is a must read for inspiration and motivation!

A soviet-style politically correct revision. This Classic book has been vandalized — not revised and update.
I was very disappointed to as I read this edition. I found it to be a soviet-style politically correct revision. I returned it since it is missing parts. Buy the classic original. This one is missing too much and the stuff added is not good.

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Self Development started with Think. Think and Grow Rich is one of the most popular and most-read personal development and success books of all time, Think and Grow Rich will probably be on the bookshelves of most successful entrepreneurs, businesspeople and athletes.

Among all the newer versions and adaptations at TAGRNation of this book, this is about the Arthur R Pell expanded edition.

Napoleon Hill was tasked by international industrialist Andrew Carnegie to interview over 500 affluent men and women to discover what was their secret to attaining their great wealth. Although then underlying principles are still the same, the newer Pell edition includes more modern-day achievers such as Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to make it more relatable to the modern reader. The truth is still the truth regardless its age.

The book starts off stating that “thoughts are things” and is the primary reason he found these people were successful.
While easy to dismiss just from the chapter titles, the smart money digs deeper to discover their clear and hidden meanings. For example, here are some of the key takeaways you will find in TAGR–
Hill talks about FAITH – not necessarily the type of faith found in religions instead its the ability to generate a state of mind using affirmation or repeated instruction or what he calls AUTOSUGGESTION. Hill believes that poverty is the result of a mindset, as people believe they are doomed to poverty or failure. This type of negative belief, he continues, is the cause of their misfortune. Hill suggests we have faith in ourselves and faith in the Infinite Intelligence.
One of the more well know concepts found from the book and used today world over is the MASTER MIND. The concept was coined in 1925 by Napoleon Hill in his book The Law of Success, then Hill we on in more detail in pages of Think and Grow Rich. This book is what gave life to masterminding. Hill defines a mastermind as: Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.

It is said that Andrew Carnegie had a mastermind group of 50 men and women, which is more than Hill suggests. You must find the right people (quality) to be in your Master Mind, versus going for quantity

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in success. It sets the foundation for you to grow and cope with all the things this career path will throw at you. In our groups, TAGR Nation, we talk expand, expound, and explain even more of the modern applications like to what Dr Pell has done in his book. In 2021, people are ready for this information. Napoleon Hill seems to have discovered the system of success through a kind of ethnology with his mentors – i.e., listening to them, and curating the results. This is what Hill does very well. Instead of Hill coming from a personal expert vantage and imposing preconceived ideas onto his readers, he gives them a clear map for them to follow.

This book was recommended to my by my…. This book was recommended to my by my grandfather when I was less than 10 yrs old. This grandfather also told me that the Billionaires (or millionaires he may have said) started wars at will and created the necessary ruckus in Congress and in the Press after the fact to get what they want. They made huge fortunes off World War I, and even if they did have to pay income taxes for the first time to fight that kind of war, they got a substantial share of the national tax bill back for themselves into few pockets. The architectural record all over the Industrial Midwest attests to those profits. That game persists very well today with 50% of income tax going into military coffers. Less and less of that is going into the hands of military personnel and their families. There are plenty of lobbyists working on reducing even that share. Our family have deep roots in Industrial America. My grandparents’ grandparents and great aunts and great uncles families played in the same sandbox with Carnegie, Mellon, Frick, Schwab, Ford, Goodyear, etc etc. since before the Civil War.

Mark Booth in his book “The Secret History of the World: As laid down by Secret Societies”, which I may also have reviewed on Amazon, summed up the 2000s of years history of Neo-Platonism, or Freemasonry, or whatever other esoterica Napoleon Hill over-simplifies and sugar coats in this book. He says something like “the biggest error in the Western esoteric movement was to focus on materialism and individualism, instead of interconnectedness, spirituality, and sustainability”. I couldn’t have agreed with him more as I read Think and Grow Rich decades after Grandpa recommended it. It seems a classic left brain, whole brain dichotomy which impacts are now painfully evident on our planet, in our cell tissue, and imprinted on our own psyches, and those of our beloved offspring who inherited their psyches from ours.

Hill is a journalist. We can tell from our own world today where journos take official word from politicians as the explanation for things, that similar errors will arise from a generalist journo like Hill taking the word of Plutocrats about how to succeed in business. They need to cover their trails. Our family has plenty of dirt on Carnegie. It is not mentioned in the book, that Charles Schwab is cited as a huge success for envisaging the US Steel Trust, which became a monopoly, with all associated ills, that Teddy Roosevelt had to bust up so that our economy could continue to function. Said bust up resulted in the creation of rival Bethlehem Steel under Schwab and also a generous shareholding for the forebears of our current Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. No mention of the fact that Schwab died alone in one of his many over-sized white elephant houses and estranged from his wife and children. But, we know because he grew up in the next village from where my grandmother grew up. He like them was from humble German Catholic origins. She spoke of him always as “Charlie Schwab”, and they were all very familiar with his many foibles and sources of his business success.

The last remark would be about Asa Candler and his Coca-Cola. Whatever the origins of cocaine in that stuff, today the high fructose corn syrup is the leading cause of diabetes and obesity in our children. The advertising is relentless, manipulative, and plays on deep identity fears. I should know because I once worked at the advertising agency that handled the account for about 50 years. These brands invented the sophisticated advertising techniques that seduce subconsciously and play on fears. The soft drink industry, with their once dependency on sugar from plantations in Cuba, and their political brethren, are now being implicated by declassified documents and the dharma work of investigative journalists who love America, in the assassination of JFK. They are also implicated in the failed attempt at the theatrical event designed to trigger the press ruckus Grandpa said they’d need to get the American people to back an invasion of Cuba. An invasion JFK refused to his demise, whose real purpose was to get nationalized plantations (and workers) back into the hands of dynastic American Yankee families who had owned them since we were a British Colony probably.

Soft drinks bottling was also the way this same crowd established their tentacles in the resource rich third-world by awarding franchises to their clone oligarchs and cement the interdependency on sugar, money, arms, coercion, “free markets” which means no trade unions or democracy in those countries ever. It is also the permanent money maker in countries where there is no investment in anything else to advance the people’s lives. The impacts of this kind of business are terrible. Asa of course didn’t know any of this would happen, but the stuff was clearly of no nutritional value, but rather another American “tonic” with dubious and impossible to measure psychological claims.

These are hardly the attributes of people who claim to have higher moral principles, or spiritually inspired gifts. The whole thing was a project to culturally invade a nation of people into thinking and believing that they too could become rich, without the benefits of monopolies, private Pinkerton Police forces, bought legislatures, public land grants, tax breaks, stacked courts…the list goes on. It speaks of a kind of Lucifer or Ahriman reconstitution to appear to the uninitiated (pun fully intended) that which it isn’t, shrouding pure evil in goodness and light. The purveyors of this over simplified stuff do a great disservice to readers. They also do a great disservice to esoterica and Neo-Platonism.

At least now the cover is blowing, and more mirrors are appearing in the hallway. So we’re now seeing more of these hidden angles! I would recommend Paulo Freire “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” to really learn about how one really does becomes rich, just like Grandpa said and with depth of historic evidence, and more importantly how we all could become more prosperous together as a whole world!