It isn’t a “pure” document about the laws of success, because there is so much personal commentary – political, social, and so on: for example, Hill claimed that (among other things) democracy, freedom, and capitalism were essential to build success and manifest personal achievement. Hill re wrote this a number of times in various forms, and it became known eventually as “the philosophy of achievement”.
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The first fruit of these labours was his “home study” course on How To Succeed, published in 1928. One Of The First Modern Accounts Of Manifestation: The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill’s Law Of Success In 16 Lessons So he certainly did mix with the rich and famous! How To Succeed It’s not entirely clear how many men Hill actually interviewed, but we know that he spoke to Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and many others among the leading industrialists – who were, of course, the richest men in America in the early 20th century.Ĭontributors to his work included President Theodore Roosevelt, FW Woolworth, and John D. He believed that achieving success, getting what you want, manifesting your desires, or what we would today call manifesting with Laws Of Attraction, was a simple process of applying age-old principles and ideas, something so straightforward that it could be set out in a formula for everyone to get their heart’s desire.Ĭarnegie challenged Napoleon Hill to interview the 500 most successful men of his time, most of whom were millionaires, to see if he could distil down their formula for success, for manifesting one’s destiny.Īnd of course, they were measuring success by financial wealth social or industrial power. And in response to Carnegie’s challenge, spent the rest of his life studying manifestation and the Law Of Attraction.Ĭarnegie was one of the world’s most successful industrialists at the time, having made some shrewd investments in oil and steel. Then, in 1908, at the age 25, he met Andrew Carnegie. So what was his story? He started a job at the age of 13 as a reporter for small-town newspapers in Virginia. Later, he went to law school – but he was too poor to pay the fees, and left to forge a career as a writer instead. In fact, I think Napoleon Hill was the founder of the science of self-development, the founder of all successful systems of success and motivation, the first man to explicitly write about Law of Attraction. He was certainly the man who turned age-old ideas into a practical system which people could follow if they wanted to manifest their desires.
Indeed, in many ways Napoleon Hill was the original self-help, self-improvement author. That’s an astounding testimony to the power of the ideas Napoleon Hill set out all those years ago (in 1925, to be exact). Napoleon Hill’s book “ Think and Grow Rich” has sold more than 100 million copies.