Think and Grow Rich

Synopsis

Author has weaved in following 13 Principles.

Desire

If you desire for something that mean you are having single goal. Day and night your mind occupies one thought. As per author if you desire something then things will materialize, you don't have to worry on the HOW part of the equation.

Faith

Faith is a belief which is above reasoning. Like faith in God. Similarly you need to have faith on yourself and on your desire than things will materialize someday from thin air again don't think about How part of the equation.

Autosuggestion

You got a strong want that is Desire, you got unshakable belief on yourself. Now you need to condition your mind. With desire and faith you need to behave as if you already attained your goal. Michel Phelps, American Olympic gold medalist swimmer, think about his moves hundreds of time as if they are in pool. Similar practice is done by formula one drivers. Google it out.

The three principles which we talked about are more of a mental conditioning. Where Desire and Faith is core of whole philosophy. Now remaining ten principles are more of like practice. The more you will practice the more you will score.

Specialised Knowledge

As per author general knowledge is of no use. We need to focus on the knowledge which is going to help to attain your goal. One important thing to note here is that - It is not necessary that you posses the knowledge, but you should have access to the knowledge.

Imagination

We know that imagination/creativity is possessed by very few people, but most of us don't know why? Because the first thing we learn as infant is to gauge our limits, but at least as a child we were always ready to explore more, even as a teenagers we were amazed with the world around us. But as we grow we keep building wall around us, we started differentiating clearly what we can do and what we cannot do, M I right? 

That is why you see the most of the amazing ideas comes out of immature/innocent mind not the mature mind. Because mature mind knows limitations, mature mind is afraid to imagine. And personally believe this is the hardest principle to practice. To think out of the box.

It just reminded me words of Walter Isaacson, about Steve Jobs "Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination and sustained innovation" , and he also referred Steve as "petulant,"

Organised Planning

Well it requires no explanation. It is something which we practice daily, travel planning, project planning, family planning, isnt it?

Decision

Again it is part of our daily life. We all understands the importance.

Persistence

This is where many people started loosing grip. This is where achievers going to make difference with rest of the crowd.

Do you know the story of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) ? Mr Colonel Harland Sanders failed in many ventures, at the age of 65 he achieved what he wanted to. Failure is part of learning. It is not the end of the journey. Keep trying.

Power of the Master Mind

If we look around we will notice almost all the governing bodies are consist of councils, board members, or panel. Akbar has famous nine, we know them as navratna. Author emphasises here that two mind are more powerful than one. If you are having master mind group which is in same pursuit as of you then its like nitrite oxide in your bike.

Sex Transmutation

Well its not a secret that man become more creative, more brave to win his partner. Look around people are ready to put their life, their social image, their family on stake if it comes to sex. So the desire of sex produces highest motivation force one can ever achieve. If somehow person can learn to put this energy or force in the equation then one can expect only wonders.

The Subconscious Mind

Our subconscious works 24/7, even in deep sleep, I know where is edge of my bed when I am sleeping. If we manage to put our desire in subconscious mind then expect 24/7 work. Now the question is how to seed you idea in sub conscious? well answer is Autosuggestion.

The Brain

I think here author become a bit more spiritual. As per author our mind is receiver, which can connect with finite intelligence. I also believe that after conditioning mind with previously mentioned principles our mind will get the ideas from thin air.. when you will think about it you will only wonder how you got the thought.

6th Sense

Frankly, I didn't got the exact idea of Author. But I believe it is possible, there is a science, we just don't know it yet, It can only be experienced. I am sure we must be having one or two experience, it is not necessary to talk about it.

Conclusion

I READ this book multiple times. Every time it helped me to get in control of the situation which I was struggling to deal with.

By title it refer to money, but believe me the concept here is applicable for anything, be it money, health, you office work, or it can be family.

Fantastic book to add in your collection.