Napoleon Hill's Philosophy of Success by Napoleon Hill

Author:Napoleon Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Creative Vision

Imagination is the key to all human achievements, the mainspring of all human endeavor, the secret door to the human soul. Imagination inspires endeavor in connection with material things and ideas associated with them.

Creative vision extends beyond the interest in material things: it judges the future by the past and concerns itself with the future more than with the past. Imagination is influenced and controlled by the powers of reason and experience. Creative vision pushes both of these aside and attains its ends by new ideas and methods. Imagination recognizes limitations, handicaps, and opposition. Creative vision rides over these as if they did not exist and arrives at its destination. Imagination is seated in the intellect of man. Creative vision has its base in the spirit of the universe, which expresses itself through the brain of man.

Note well these distinctions if you would know the difference between genius and mediocrity, for genius is the product of creative vision, while mediocrity is the product of the imagination (albeit one that often carries power and attains stupendous ends).

Our country needs creative vision now as it has never needed it before. Opportunities for expressing personal initiative were never as great as they are at this time. The nation has plenty of brawn and muscle, but it needs an expression of brainpower, and it needs it badly.

Two things are essential—more essential, perhaps, than all others—for unfolding and developing creative vision: one is a sincere willingness to work, and the other is a definite motive that is sufficient to inspire willingness to go the extra mile with a positive mental attitude. The great leaders of this and past generations began their careers in the humblest of capacities. By applying some combination of the seventeen principles of individual achievement, they promised themselves the goals they had set their hearts upon, but did not complain of the lack of opportunity.

Andrew Carnegie began as a bobbin boy in a textile mill at wages of 50 cents a day. Charles M. Schwab, who promoted himself to the position of Mr. Carnegie’s first assistant, began as a stagecoach driver and later as a day laborer in the steel mills of Pennsylvania. Henry Ford began as an engineer for an electric light and power company. Thomas A. Edison began as a newsboy and later took up the work of telegraphy. The list could be extended to include practically every leader this nation has ever produced, each and every one of whom began his career under circumstances far less favorable than those enjoyed by the majority of the workers in industry today, and at far lower wages.

So it makes but little difference where a man begins; the important thing is, where is he going? Which does he watch the closest—the clock or the signs of an opportunity to make himself indispensable by the quality and the quantity of the service he renders? Every ambitious man should ask himself these questions, and he should be in a position to answer them.

The man who is blessed with creative vision knows where he is going.

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