Success--Discovering the Path to Riches by Napoleon Hill

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

An educated person is one who knows how to get everything he wants without violating the rights of other people.

—NAPOLEON HILL

THE POWER OF ATTRACTION

The great negative note in the lives of most people is Fear. Fear is the mother of all the negative emotions, and her brood is found clustering very closely around her. Worry, Lack of Confidence, Bashfulness, Irresolution, Timidity, Depression, and all the rest of the negative family of feelings and emotions are the progeny of Fear. Without Fear none of these minor emotions or feelings would exist. By killing off the parent of this brood of mental vampires, you escape the coming generations of negative thoughts, and thus keep your Mental Attitude gardens free from these pests and nuisances.

Fear and the emotions that come from it do more to paralyze useful effort, good work, and finely thought-out plans than anything else known to man. It is the great hobgoblin of the race. It has ruined the lives of thousands of people. It has destroyed the finely budding characters of men and women, and made negative individuals of them in the place of strong, reliant, courageous doers of useful things.

Worry is the oldest child of Fear. It settles down upon one’s mind, and crowds out all of the developing good things to be found there. Like the cuckoo in the sparrow’s nest, it destroys the rightful occupants of the mind. Laid there as an egg by its parent, Fear, Worry soon hatches out and begins to make trouble. In place of the cheerful and positive “I Can and I Will” harmony, Worry begins to rasp out in raucous tones: “Supposin,” “What if,” “But,” “I can’t,” “I’m unlucky,” “I never could do things right,” “Things never turn out right with me,” and so on until all the minor notes have been sounded. It makes one sick bodily and inert mentally. It retards one’s progress, and is a constant stumbling block in one’s path upward.

The worst thing about Fear and Worry is that while they exhaust a great deal of the energy of the average person, they give nothing in return. Nobody ever accomplished a single thing by reason of Fear and Worry. Fear and Worry never helped one along a single inch on the road to success and wealth. And they never will, because their whole tendency is to retard progress, not advance it. The majority of things that we fear and worry about never come to pass at all, and the few that do actually materialize are never as bad as we feared they would be. It is not the cares, trials, and troubles of today that unnerve us and break us down—it is the troubles that we fear may come some time in the future. We usually find the way to bear the burdens of tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, when they arrive. The worry is worse than the reality.

The energy, work, activity, and thought that we expend on these imaginary “maybe” troubles

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