Notes on "Think and Grow Rich"

know your Desire

ch1 - Success Consciousness

• turn the word 'impossible' out

• maintain a spirit of open-mindedness

  • another weakness is "measure everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs"

• Never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat

• No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it

• humility, tolerance, and open-mindedness

ch2 - Burning Desire - the Starting point of all achievement

• Burning Desire to WIN

  • choose a definite goal
  • create a plan by which to attain that purpose
  • place all his energy, all his will power and effort with that goal

• Desire for riches

  • the exact amount of money you desire

    • 100 - 200 W in 2 years

  • what I intend to give for it

    • TODO

  • create a definite plan for it, and begin at once

  • Check it everyday

ch3 - Faith

• note:

  • Love and faith are psychic; related to the spiritual side of man

  • Sex is purely biological, related only to the physical

  • the methods based on economic combinations of FORCE and FEAR, will be supplanted by the better principles fo FAITH and cooperation

    • giving before they try to get

  • Thought in the mind is put into motion, FAITH removes limitations

• How to develop faith

  • self-suggestion

    • you believe you will receive that for which you ask, and it will act upon that belief

  • I have the ability to achieve the object

  • dominating thoughts of my mind gradually transform into physical reality

  • clearly written down a description of my definite chief in life, and I will never stop trying

  • I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces i wish to use, and the cooperation of other people

    • serve others so that others will serve me
    • develop love and eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism
    • cause others to believe in me, because i will believe in them, and in myself

ch4 - self-suggestion

ch5 - Specialized knowledge

• Organize and Direct a 'Master Mind' group who possess knowledge useful in the accumulation of money

• How to organize and use knowledge after acquiring it

  • develop the faculities of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without viloating the rights of others

  • bridge your weakness through the aid of your 'master mind' group

• How to purchase knowledge

  • Your major purpose in life, the goal toward which you are working, and help determine what knowldege you need

    • healthy, family, business/money
    • relationship -> understanding/helpful, independent, experience
    • career -> freedom, understanding/helpful, influence, new/learning, meaningful

  • first determine the purpose for the knowledge you are seeking, then learn where can be obtained

    • never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to major purpose, business, or profession

  • qualities of character, intelligence and personality far more than specific educational background

• Specialized knowledge with Ideas, in the forms of organized plans designed to yield riches

ch6 - Imagination

• Ideas can be into cash through the power of definite purpose, plus definite plans

ch7 - Build practical plans - Organized Planning from 'Master Mind' alliance

• Ally yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation, and carrying out of plans

• decide what advantages, and benefits, you may offer the individual members of your group, in return for their cooperation

  • No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation

• Arrange to meet with the members of your 'master mind' at least twice a week, until you have jointly perfected the necessary plans for the accumulation of money

• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your 'master mind' group

• note:

  • select those members who do not take defeat seriously

  • must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds + must have plans which are faultless

    • major importance to you

  • originate your own plans, either in whole or in part,

    • but see that those plans are checked, and approved by the members of your 'master mind' alliance
    • create new plans to take the place of those which fail, until you find a plan which does work
    • accept temporary defeat as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans

Leadership by consent of, and with the sympathy of the followers

• self-confidence and courage
• self-control
• a sense of fairness and justice

• definiteness of decision

  • he is not sure of himself if he wavers in his decisions
  • men who succeed reach decisions promptly, and change them very slowly if at all

• practical, definite plans

  • must plan his work, and work his plan

• Master of all details connected with his position

  • also, relegate details to others

• a pleasing personality, understanding

  • understand his followers and their problems
  • call for respect

• cooperation

Freedome and Get with giving

• Capital is more highly organized, intelligent groups of men who plan ways and means of using money efficiently for the good of the public, and profitable to themselves

• Step up to the front,

  select what you want, create your plan, put the plan into action, and follow through with persistence.

ch8 - Decision

• better to reach decisions promptly, and change the decisions slowly if when they were changed

  • Decide quickly, and firmly

• Deeds, and not words, are what count most

  • Keep a closed mouth and Open ears and eyes
  • Only TRUST the members of your 'Master Mind' group
  • choose ONLY those who sympathy and harmony with your purpose

• Definite decision always requires courage

  • stake economic freedom

ch10 - Organize your Master Mind -> Organized knowledge

• Gain power through the 'Master Mind'

  • Coordination of effort of two or more people toward a definite end, in a spirit of harmony
  • create PLANS for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent

• Using economic feature - matter

  • surround with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a group of men who are willing to lend hime wholehearted aid in a spirit of perfect harmony

• Using psychic feature - energy <- Nature

  • take on the nature and the habits and the POWER of Thoughts of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony

  • when a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to each brain in the group

  • through a process which only Nature completely understands, one can translate energy into matter

  • coordinate in a SPIRIT of harmony, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity

ch11

• harmonize the emotions of love , sex, and romance - marriage

  • love is through the heart, or the emotional side of man ; not through his head, or reasoning side
  • Accept and enjoy it while it remains
  • love is spiritual, while sex is biological

• love, romance, and the proper understanding of the emotion and function of sex abide

• Man's greatest motivatong force is his desire to please women

ch12 - subsonscious mind

• note:

  • the subconscious mind is more by thought impulse mixed with 'feeling' or emotion
  • try to feed positive thought impulse, and reduce negative thought impulse
  • Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions
  • go back in your memory, and Recall your actual state of MIND

• major positive emotions

  • sincere desire
  • faith
  • love
  • sex
  • enthusiasm
  • romance
  • hope

• major negative emotions

  • fear <- Faith
  • jealousy
  • hatred
  • revenge
  • greed
  • anger
  • superstition

ch13 - the brain

ch14 - the sixth sense

ch15 - outwit the fear

reference

• [Think and Grow Rich]
• [Rich Dad Poor Dad]