"Analyze temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the seed of an equivalent advantage."

In episode 4, we review the exercise from last week (a picture of your ideal future self) and dive into a discussion on the third of our 11-principle series. We discuss defeat/failure/adversity, what our psychological response is, and the role of others in helping us extract equivalent advantage.

Exercise:

Find an example of defeat or failure from your life. Analyze it using one or both of the following systems and identify the “seed of equivalent advantage”:

Post-mortem method:

-Why did I get the result that I did?

—Go down 5 levels of “why?”

-What could I have done differently?

-What could I commit to in light of this? (Action Steps)

3-piles method:

1. What did I do that helped me?

2. What did I do that hurt me?

3. What did I do that didn’t help me, but that I will continue to do? (Often contingency plans fall in this category)

“Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale had never been published (until 2010 — 72 years later!), considered too controversial by his family and friends. Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed.”

The topics we will cover over these 11 weeks:

"Do your own thinking on all occasions. The fact that human beings are given complete control over nothing save the power to think their own thoughts is laden with significance."

"Decide definitely what you want from life; then create a plan for attaining it and be willing to sacrifice everything else, if necessary, rather than accept permanent defeat."

"Analyze temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the seed of an equivalent advantage."

"Be willing to render useful service equivalent to the value of all material things you demand of life, and render the service first."

"Recognize that your brain is a receiving set that can be attuned to receive communications from the universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence, to help you transmute your desires into their physical equivalent."

"Recognize that your greatest asset is time, the only thing which you own outright, and the one thing which can be shaped into whatever material things you want. Budget your time so none of it is wasted."

"Recognize the truth that fear generally is a filler with which the Devil occupies the unused portion of your mind. It is only a state of mind which you can control by filling the space it occupies with faith in your ability to make life provide you with whatever you demand of it."

"When you pray, do not beg! Demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly that, with no substitutes."

"Recognize that life is a cruel taskmaster and that either you matter or it masters you. There is no half-way or compromising point. Never accept from life anything you do not want. If that which you do not want is temporarily forced upon you, you can refuse, in your own mind, to accept it and it will make way for the thing you do want."

"Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon."

Final: "Be definite in everything you do and never leave unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions on all subjects."

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