Think and Grow Rich

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1. tonygumpJun 2025
   Thanks for your insight! I have been weary of using any AI until I understood it better. Your article makes sense & I will begin to venture in using it. And thanks for the book mention. I read "Think & Grow Rich" 40+ years ago & it changed my life. Looking forward to reading this one.
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2. chromatonMay 2025
   I find that these books have to be read by the right person at the right time. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill did nothing for me when I first was exposed to it, but later on, helped me greatly.

   BTW, the business book that helped me the most is barely known: Making Money is Killing Your Business by Chuck Blakeman.

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3. cadamsdotcomMar 2025
   My favorite thing about this idea is its durability across decades. Similar ideas can be found in the book “Think and Grow Rich”, which dates back to the Great Depression.

   Ultimately people buy from other people, or rarely in high-trust societies, from brands. We in the West recently became used to having the trust it takes to buy from a brand, but this is a rare, modern, exception. It’s sensible to buy from a person you trust - if there’s a problem with the thing you bought, the interpersonal relationship between you and the (human) seller provides assurance you’ll be made whole or at least helped. Whereas buying from a brand requires such assurances be provided by the society in the form of consumer protection laws, courts et al.

   Cultivate a brand and an identity, and whatever you make, you can sell - provided it’s relevant and useful to your constituents.

   It’s not an easy transition from having a job, but it sidesteps the age discrimination in the job market - and you might even get paid to do what you love.

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4. GoldenMonkeyNov 2024
   Being healthy and fit. Having a strong immune system. Gut health. Eating healthy and well. Getting good sleep. Proactively taking care of your body and mental health.

   CBT Therapy is very good. Teaching one that, one's perspective is everything.

   Being social, having positive friends.

   If there was one book, that changed my mindset from a negative thinker to a positive thinker. Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.

   And the secret sauce to high performance. Adderall. Alpha-GPC is also very good and worthwhile to try first.

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5. jzombieDec 2023
   Having read Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich", several times, and considering the book is now in the public domain, I thought that I would create a custom GPT using the book's epub as the context, and share the book with others.
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6. andaiNov 2023
   Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. On the face of it, a new age book about turning your thoughts into reality. (And a pretty good one, as far as that goes...)

   The author interviewed hundreds of the most successful people of his day and distilled their success principles.

   It's packed to the brim with practical advice about how to run a business, and how to achieve any goal. Worth a read.

   TLDR pick a goal you really care about, develop absolute faith that you will attain it (i.e. practice seeing it as already done, until it feels real), lay out a concrete plan of action for its attainment, and get to work!

   (The section on quality and quantity of service rendered is of particular interest.)

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