This is part one of a summary of the 13 principles of Napoleon Hill’s Master Key lecture series on Amazon Prime. I also added the 4 principles that were not covered at the end of part two of this summary.
1. Definiteness of Purpose: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
NH recommended to procure a pocket-sized personal journal, and
Write down clearly what kind of life you want.
Write down precisely what you plan to give back for such gift.
Repeat above a dozen times every day, and express gratitude to the universe that you are given complete control of your mind at birth.
Thank the universe as if you have already received the gift you wanted.
As Tony Robbins says, once a person figured out why, how is easy. Vicktor Frankl also mentioned this in his book “A Man Search For Meaning”.
2. Mastermind (alliance)
It is a group of two or more people who work together to create the perfect harmony. It is through this principle that you can borrow the education and influence of other people. It can shorten your time to success. The MM principle gives you protection against failure.
3. Going the Extra Mile
Quality plus quantity, plus the mental attitude, determine your level of compensation. This will make you indispensable if you work for someone. It will help benefit you by the law of contrast. It also helps you develop a keen imagination to increase your service quality. It helps you use personal initiative, and master the habit of procrastination. It influences others to respect your integrity.
4. Applied Faith
This is something everyone already possesses. It is the mental attitude that you can clear all fear and doubt. Fear is applied faith only in reverse gear.
Know what you want and believe that you can and will get it. Give gratitude many times a day before you even get it. Possession starts from the mind.
5. A Pleasing Personality
It determines whether people are attracted to you or shy from you. It is your trademark by which people recognize you. You should see your personality just other people see it.
Positive mental attitude
Flexibility: if you have flexibility and can adjust yourself in all circumstances, it would be impossible for anyone to upset you without your consent
The ability of control and direct your enthusiasm
Sincerity of purpose
6. Self-Discipline
Gain mastery of your tongue
Exercise self-discipline of all emotions, love, hate, and sex.
Control mental attitude
Your stomach also needs discipline, proper dieting and fasting
Self-discipline ends suffering
7. Positive mental attitude
Learn to adjust yourself to other people’s state of mind, ignore trivial things to keep peace with others
Condition your mind to start your day positively (Tony Robbins’ morning priming routine is a great example)
Do not permit yourself to be drawn into arguments that you are not prepared for
Give thanks to the blessings you will receive during the day.
There is always something you can do; find it and do it.
Look at life as continuous education; learn from all good and bad.
Do not accept anything that you do not desire from anyone (passive resistance)
Remember there are always two types of circumstances in life that make you worry. One is that which you can do something about, the other is that which you cannot do anything about. For the latter, refuse to make them worry you.
Keep your mind eternally engaged in what you desire most, the major purpose of your life so that you have no time to think about minor things.
If you feel bad about yourself, look around and find someone that has a worse situation than you have, and do something for them.
Remember: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
The above is a summary of first 7 principles I wrote down while going through the lecture series. The other 6 principles plus 4 will be in the next post.
If you find that some of them resonates with you, I strongly suggest you go watch the video lecture series of Napoleon Hill’s Master Key on Amazon Prime. It consists of 13 short video lectures and 2 bonus lectures. The links are below. If you want to dig deeper, I strongly recommend his book “Think and Grow Rich.”
Scott
May 28, 2019
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