Success Habits by Napoleon Hill

Author:Napoleon Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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PERSISTENCE AND DECISIVENESS

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I am Henry Alderburg, the associate director of education of the Napoleon Hill Institute. Mr. Hill has invited me here to meet the people of Paris, which I enjoyed doing this week, and I will be conducting our discussion today with Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill in previous broadcasts has presented the success formula which people can live by at their work and play, in their jobs and home. While you have been telling our audience what they must do in order to achieve success, Mr. Hill, you also told our friends what they must not do, detailing in the last broadcast the fifteen major causes of failure. Will you continue your discussion of the causes of failure today, and of how to overcome them?

Mr. Hill: Yes, we will begin our program today by describing the two most common causes of failure. You will observe that these stumbling blocks can be converted into stepping-stones to success by the simple process of following the rules I have previously presented. After discussing these causes and how to overcome them through persistence and decisiveness, I will tell our audience how failure can be converted into success.

Cause of failure number one is the habit of quitting when the going is hard. No matter who you are or how skilled you may be in your occupation, there will be times when the going is hard and unpleasant circumstances will overtake you. If you yield easily to these obstacles you may as well write yourself off as far as becoming a great success is concerned. But, assuming that you will follow the success rules I have presented in these programs, when you meet with opposition of any nature, instead of quitting you will turn on more willpower, stoke the fires of a stronger faith in your own ability, and make up your mind that come what may you will not sell yourself short. Do that and you will soon succeed.

I had one of the greatest insights of my life when Thomas A. Edison told me how he reacted to failure when he was trying to perfect the incandescent electric lamp. Before he found the solution to his problem he tried more than ten thousand different ideas, every one of which was a failure. Just think of that, a man keeping on despite ten thousand failures with faith unshaken, and at long last being crowned with victory. One failure is sufficient to make the average person quit. Perhaps this is why there are so many average persons and there was only one Thomas A. Edison.

Cause of failure number two is procrastination, the inability to make prompt and definite decisions. Procrastination is the habit of waiting for something beneficial to happen instead of getting busy and making something happen. All successful people make it their habit to create circumstances and opportunities favorable to themselves instead of accepting whatever life offers them.

Mr. Alderburg: Could you tell us what happens to the person who fails to move on his own to achieve and embrace opportunity when it presents itself?

Mr.

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