This is the unprecedented blue print for success. Anything your mind can conceive and believe- you can achieve. That is the timeless philosophy of Napoleon Hill, author of this all time motivational best seller, Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hills's classic teaching reveals a secret formula that has created more millionaires than any other book or success system combined.
Unfortunately, when you arrived on this planet, no one gave you an instruction book on how to deal with life. In your early teens you were expecting life to be one big party once you got your act together as an adult. What a surprise! A few years after reaching adulthood and having to deal with the real world, you came to the realization that life is difficult. In this regard American philosopher George Santayana surmised,
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Ernie Zelinski,101 Really Important Things You Already Know but keep forgetting
Yet following the majority as they look for happiness in all the wrong places is insane. Understand that happiness doesn't care how you get there. It doesn't care how hard you work. Nor does it care whether you wear designer clothes or how fancy your car is or how many possessions you have. Moreover, happiness doesn't care how beautiful, talented, or intelligent you are.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
That's why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should. ~Epictetus, Discourses, 2.9.13-14
The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited- whose choices aren't hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don't fall into what repels them. Who wishes up, mistaken, undisciplined, complaining, in a rut? No one. These are base people who don't live as they wish; and so, no base person is free.
