Notes on "Think and Grow Rich"

2020-09-28

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

    • 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]