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Vintage Essays By Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University Calumnet

Dear Readers,

Here at the Napoleon Hill Foundation we have the archives of Napoleon Hill’s material that we have republished for you to benefit from. The source of the next series of articles are excerpts from Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine. These were published over eighty years ago but still have universal application. These original articles from Napoleon Hill were published several years before his first book ever appeared. In these articles, Hill focused on the power of the human potential. These are the first writings of Napoleon Hill; the kindling or precursor of what will lead up to his greatest his work, Think and Grow Rich.

ORIGINS

The remote mountains of Wise County, Virginia, where Hill was born in 1883, did not provide a lot of opportunities for a boy being raised in poverty. Hill’s mother died when he was ten years old, and his father married again a year later. Napoleon’s new stepmother was to be a blessing to the young boy. Martha was a young widow who was educated, the daughter of a doctor; she took a liking to her highly energized stepson, who was often involved in mischievous deeds. The newest member of the Hill household was a source of encouragement that lasted a lifetime. Later in life, Hill credited his stepmother in a manner similar to the way Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, credited his, when he once remarked that, “whatever I am or ever aspire to be I owe to that dear woman.” By the age of thirteen, with the help of his stepmother, he had traded a pistol for a typewriter. A series of articles would encourage his pursuit of a profession in writing. Napoleon Hill was a visionary. This is found in the fact that so much of the self-help material written today is simply a version of what Hill studied and wrote about over 80 years ago. Today, a number of books have been written about the law of attraction as if it is some newly discovered principle that will ensure success. Hill wrote about this “new” principle in the March 1919 issue of Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine, which will be included in this series.

Today there are stacks and stacks of books that reference one or more of Hill’s works, and he is no doubt quoted more than any other motivational writer or speaker who ever lived. These quotes are sometimes used verbatim and at other times with slight changes.

Whether you are a follower of Hill’s teaching or this is your first encounter with his writing, you will benefit from these lessons on human potential. I hope you enjoy this next series of excerpts from Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules, the lost writings of Napoleon Hill.

 

I wish you the best,
Don Green

Executive Director Napoleon Hill Foundation

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The Law of Success

Your Social and Physical Heredity
by Napoleon Hill

Your parents made you what you are, physically, but YOU can make yourself what you WILL, mentally.

You and every other human being are the sum total of just two things, heredity and environment.

You inherited certain physical tendencies and qualities from your parents. You inherited other tendencies and qualities from your grandparents, and from their parents.

The size of your body, the color of your hair and eyes, the texture of your skin, and certain other physical qualities of this nature you inherited; consequently, much of your physical makeup is a result of causes beyond your control.

Those qualities which were ‘‘wished’’ upon you, through your physical heredity, are, for the most part, qualities which you cannot change very materially.

However, it is another matter when you come to those qualities which you have developed out of your environment, or through what is called social heredity. You can change these qualities at will. Those which you developed before the age of ten years will, of course, be much harder to modify or change because they are deeply set, and you will find it hard to exercise sufficient willpower to change them.

Every sense impression which reaches your mind, from the moment of your birth, through any of the five senses, constitutes a part of your social heredity. The songs you sing or hear sung, the poems you read, the books you study, the sermons you listen to, the sights you see, all constitute a part of your social heredity.

Probably the most influential sources from which you absorb the tendencies which constitute your personality are these: first, the teachings which you receive at home, by your parents; secondly, your teachings at church or Sunday school; thirdly, your teachings in public or private schools; fourthly, the daily newspapers and monthly magazines and your other reading.

You believe as you do, regarding every subject, as a result of the sense impressions which have reached your mind. Your belief may be false or correct, according to the soundness or unsoundness, truth or falsity, of those sense impressions.

If, in the process of your schooling, you have been taught how to think accurately; how to overcome prejudices which attach to race, creed, politics, and the like; how to see that nothing but facts impress themselves on your mind; how to keep away all sense impressions which do not arise out of truth, you are very fortunate, because you will be able to extract from your environment that which you can use to best advantage in developing your personality into exactly that which you want it to be.

Summarizing, we believe it worthwhile to repeat, in a few words, the two chief points made, namely:

First—Any ideal or habit which is intended to become a permanent fixture in a human being must be planted in his or her mind in early childhood, through the principle of social heredity. An idea so planted becomes a permanent part of that person and remains with him or her throughout life, excepting in very rare instances, where stronger influences than those which planted the idea tend to counteract or erase it. This principle is called social heredity, because it constitutes the medium through which the dominating qualities of a person are planted and developed out of all those sense impressions which reach the mind out of one’s environment, through the five senses, as separate and distinct from those physical qualities which are inherited from the parents.

Second—One of the most important fundamental principles of psychology, through which the human mind functions, is the tendency of the mind to want that which is withheld, prohibited, or hard to acquire. The moment you remove an object out of reach of a person, that moment you set up in that person’s mind a desire for that object. The moment you forbid a person to do a thing, that moment that person strongly desires to do the very thing it has been forbidden to do. The human mind resents being forced to do anything. Therefore, to plant an idea in a person’s mind in such a way that it will remain there permanently, it must be so presented that the person welcomes it and readily accepts it. All competent salesmen are familiar with this principle, and practice the habit of so presenting the merits of their services, goods, or wares, that the prospective buyer is scarcely aware that the ideas he is forming are not originating in his own mind.

These two principles are worthy of consideration by all who would become leaders in any worthwhile undertaking, because all successful leadership depends upon their use. Whether you are selling goods, practicing medicine or law, preaching sermons, writing books, teaching school, or managing commerce and industry, you will find your ability greatly augmented by studying, understanding, and using these two principles through which the human mind may be reached.

You are the sum total of just two factors, heredity and environment. You can’t help how you were born, but you can build up your strong traits and overcome your weak ones. And you CAN change your environment, your thoughts, your purpose, your life aim. It’s up to YOU; do you WANT to? Then you CAN.

Source: Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules. Pages 3 – 6.

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Transformation
by Jim Stovall

 

Transformation is more about the questions you are willing to ask yourself than the answers you think you already know.

We live in a material world in which people seek instant gratification. They want to measure themselves based on what they have instead of who they are or what they do. What we have is a poor indicator of ourselves. The best indicator of success is simply who we are. This indicator is made up of the elements of our character, our personality, and our principles. The measure of who we are will lead to the second indicator, which is what we do. In this arena, we are judged by our efficiency, our productivity, and the contribution we make to the world. Only after we determine who we are and what we do can we impact what we have; but in our instant gratification world, people who are not willing to change any elements of their personality or their performance simply want to have the rewards.

This is why there are many more lottery tickets sold than personal development books. Ironically, even when people defy the odds and win the lottery, if they haven’t altered who they are or what they do, they will inevitably lose what they have.

If you have land that grows trees that produces fruit, the long-term value cannot be determined solely by the fruit or even the trees. The land is the core value. If you are a person of principle and character who performs efficiently and productively, you will have the rewards that everyone seeks; and even if you lost your rewards, you would still be able to reproduce the results just as if one year’s crop of fruit is ruined, there will be a crop the following year. Or even if the trees are destroyed, they can be replaced or regrown as long as the core value of the land is retained.

If people who want to be instant millionaires would trans-form their thinking to first become a millionaire personality with a millionaire mindset, then they would perform tasks that generate millions of dollars of value into the marketplace. This would result in them being millionaires many times over. But if you just want the fruit without the land or the trees, any success you enjoy will be short-lived.

Success comes from being, then doing, which results in having. If you simply want to have more things without trans-forming who you are as a person and what you do as a service to the world, you are doomed to failure.

As you go through your day today, remember to focus on who you are and what you do and then you will have every-thing you desire.

Today’s the day!
Jim Stovall

Jim Stovall is the president of Narrative Television Network as well as a published author of many books including The Ultimate Gift. He is also a columnist and motivational speaker. He may be reached at 5840 South Memorial Drive, Suite 312, Tulsa, OK 74145-9082; by email at Jim@JimStovall.com; on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stovallauthor; or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jimstovallauthor.

Source: Wisdom for Winners, Volume III

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New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer brings you the very foundation of Napoleon Hill’s self-help legacy: his long-lost original notes, letters, and lectures—now compiled, edited, and annotated for the modern reader.

Twenty years before the publication of his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill was an instructor, philosopher, and writer at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, where he taught courses in advertising and sales. These rare, never-before-seen lectures were thought to be lost to history. Until now.

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