who is Napoleonn hill and what was his secret or his laws of success?
Napoleon Hill 1883 – 1970 was an American author and was one of the earliest writers of modern personal success guides. His most important book, "Think and Grow Rich" [1937], is one of the best-selling American books of all time.
Hill was an archetypal American. That led to many critics and detractors pointing out that only USA could ever be successful. according to Hill. He believed freedom, democracy, capitalism, and social harmony to be essential elements to his philosophy. He claimed that without these socio-political foundations, successful personal achievement is not possible. He compared this philosophy with others and thought that his was superior. He felt that it was responsible for the success Americans enjoyed for the previous two centuries.
Negative emotions such as fear, selfishness and so on, had no part to play in his philosophy. Hill considered those emotions to be the source of failure for unsuccessful people so that it was their own faults for not thinking like Americans. In this sense, Hill’s formula for success has a psycho-religious basis similar to the Hindu worship of the goddess Laxmi. Think these thoughts; perform these rituals each day; hold these beliefs; change your attitude towards things that happen; expect to be rich and successful. It is as if he is saying, "You can be rich and successful only if you believe the things I believe."
Hill did not tackle the more difficult problem that most [not all] rich and famous Americans came from rich and famous dynasties. They had taken advantage of the new continent in the 18th and 19th centuries, dispossessed the native tribal peoples, denuded the landscape and brought animal species to extinction, owned slaves, paid minimum wages to their labourers, and had taken big risks with other people’s money.
Hill was very much influenced by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was also impressed with Hill and asked him to interview or analyse over 500 successful men and women, many of them millionaires, in order to discover and publish this "formula for success."
As part of that research, Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time, including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Charles M. Schwab, F.W. Woolworth, William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and Jennings Randolph. Hill was also an advisor to two presidents of the United States of America; Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt.
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