I don't usually read a book but when I read I make sure that it worth reading and after reading it I should be a better person with some more knowledge. The knowledge I can use in my real life to be more productive. Two weeks ago I reviewed my most favorite book "Rich Dad Poor Dad". And I recommend you to read that book at least once in your life time if you want to be more productive in your life. Here is the link if you want a brief review of that book.

Rich Dad Poor Dad! Review.

Coming back to the topic, The book I am reviewing today is my 2nd favorite book. The book "Think And Grow Rich" is written by "Napoleon Hill". The author of the book studied some of the successful persons and noted their similarities. After getting the similarities he wrote some points to be followed for a successful life. Lets start talking about those points.

BURNING DESIRE

All successful persons he studied have this thing similar. Burning desire means do or die to attain something you want. There is much difference between"wish" and "burning desire". Wish is about "you want something" but burning desire is that you can do anything to have the thing you want. He said wish is not enough to get something you want. If you only wish to have something then you never gonna have it. You need a burning desire to have something you want. If you have burning desire then you will automatically do whatever it takes to have that thing.

Author gave example of Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had burning desire to invent something to get light from (bulb). He tried 10,000 times before he invent light bulb. He literally tried Fvkin* Ten Thousand times 😱😳. What if you was there ? How many times you would have tried ? For me, I would have tried not more than 100 times, 200 times or max 500 times. 10,000 times could be tried by a person who have burning desire, the madness and fire to do something.

SET GOALS WITH DETAILED PLANNING

Now you have a burning desire but what next ? The second step is to set goals with detailed planning. Be very specific to your goals. For example you want 1 Million Dollars. Then be specific to your goal. When you want ? Why you want ? How much you want? The greater the details you have about your goal the easier it will be to accomplish.

Author then gave a tip to reader. He said write out your goal on a paper or something and read it every morning after you wake up and every night before sleep. This activity will automatically save it to your subconscious.

FAITH

The third point is faith. Do blind trust on yourself. The best example of this is The Great Muhammad Ali Boxer. He used to say "I am the great" and at the end he proved himself the great. If you have burning desire and planning but don't have faith on yourself then you can't do anything. Another example author gave is "Mahatma Gandhi". Gandhi didn't have any money or military but he defeated British Colonial Power just because he believed that he can Influence many people. Faith is power which can move the mountains.

AUTO SUGGESTIONS

Before telling you what is auto suggestions, let me tell you that your subconscious mind Influences your behavior. Whatever you think will be your actions oneday. So the best thing is to feed positive thoughts to your subconscious mind. Use specific thinking to feed your subconscious. The more you use it the more it will help you. This is auto suggestions. Feed positive thoughts to your subconscious and it will suggest you better ideas.

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge is power. If you have knowledge then you will have Influence, money, popularity and respect. Here knowledge doesn't mean what you get in your school. This traditional knowledge you get from your school is not what we are talking about. The real knowledge is what you learn from your life experience and society. This type of information and knowledge doesn't need any High School. Author gave example of Henry Ford. The owner and founder of The Ford Motor Company was a High School drop out but set up an empire. Willingness to continue is the key to increase your knowledge. If you would say "I know everything now" then you are not gonna get more knowledge.

BUILD UP A TEAM

Don't do everything by yourself. Build a team of experts to complete the task. For example if you are expert in direction then hire a editor who should be expert in that field. If you both do your best in your field the product will be the more than the best.

WORKSHOP OF IMAGINATION

Author says your mind is workshop who changes your dreams to a reality. In that workshop dream changes into idea and then into reality. The workshop is called workshop of Imagination. Imagination itself have two compartments. Creative Imagination and Synthetic Imagination.

• Creative Imagination

Creative Imagination is an Imagination in which you create a thing which never exist before. For example, a painter has drawn a picture which never exist before. A musician compose a music which never exist before.

• Synthetic Imagination

Synthetic Imagination is an Imagination in which you rearrange the old ideas to create a new thing. For example Sony took the Dictaphone idea and then rearranged it using synthetic imagination to create walkman.

Another example of synthetic imagination is Coca-Cola. The founder of coca cola had purchased the formula ( recipe) from a pharmacist in just $3000. The Coca-Cola recipe was the creative imagination of that pharmacist but after purchasing the founder of Coca-Cola company rearranged it using his synthetic imagination. So use your Imagination as a muscle. The more you use it the more it gets powerful.

SELF AWARE

The next step is to know your strength and weakness. How would you do that? You can do that by doing self analysis. The best thing to do is to ask questions to yourself. Sometimes you might feel biased. If it happens then ask a person about you who knows you well. After self aware, you will know about your strength and weakness and then you can deal with them accordingly. This thing will decrease the lack of ambition.

Final Thoughts

Author says you should have 4 things to be successful.

• Burning Desire

• Detailed Planning

• No Negative Influence

• Be With The People Who Support You

The last point means, dont be with the people who always discourage you. Otherwise your ambitions will be fade out. Be with the people you matches brain trust with. Work with them because two skilled people when work together will make a splendid thing.

Don't hate money. Money isn't the route of all evil. The way you spend it makes it good or evil. Crime has nothing to do with a rich or poor. It's a mentality. A rich or poor both can be a criminal. If you start hating money then it is not gonna come to you. Just develope a skill and start making money. Skill is the key.

And that's it for today guys. Hope you like this. If you like this series to review the books then let me know in the comments so that I can continue this series.

Thanks.