This week, Life Training Online is reviewing Think and Grow Rich
Last week, I didn’t have a chance to run to the bookstore to figure out which book I’d be reviewing for this week. But on Sunday evening, I noticed a book that’s been sitting on the bookshelf for a while that I never had the opportunity to read and thought, “what a perfect time to read then!” The book is Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.
Another classic in the self-help genre (it was first published in 1937), this book is the end product of two decades of research of highly successful people conducted by Napoleon Hill.
Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie (who was at the time equivalent to our Bill Gates) contacted Hill to write the Philosophy of Personal Achievement. Hill, using Carnegie’s letter of instruction, then went forth to interview over five hundred successful people of that time, among those: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman, William Wrigley Jr. and Charles M. Schwab.
Hill then disclosed his findings in the form of the thirteen steps to success which make up the book, Think and Grow Rich.
Although the title suggests that this book deals exclusively with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author claims that the principles that are contained therein can be applied to achieving anything in life, as is the case with International Boxing Hall of Famer Ken Norton. After initial failure, Norton attributes his beating Muhammed Ali to win the heavyweight title to the principles that he learned from Think and Grow Rich.
I’m excited to read this book and am suprised that after years of having this book collect dust on my shelves, that it would first come to my attention now. Perhaps it’s syncronicity and will be life changing for me or for one of you…let’s find out this week!
Think and Grow Rich is the ninth of fifty-two books in Life Training - Online’s series 52 Personal Development Books in 52 Weeks.
Dear Chandresh,
I enjoyed reading your blog today, and it occurs to me that you might be interested to learn that a new edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic book “Think and Grow Rich” has been published. Unlike the version of TGR that you show on your blog page, this other edition is unabridged and has many new features that no other version has.
Its title is “Think and Grow Rich!” (subtitled) “The Original Version, Restored and Revised.” I am the editor/annotator of this new 412-page edition, which is really an homage to Dr. Hill. (For several years I was the editor-in-chief of “Think & Grow Rich Newsletter.”)
What I have done is this: to restore Dr. Hill’s book to its original manuscript content (it was first published in 1937, but was abridged in 1960), annotate it with more than 50 pages of endnotes (most of the persons and events he discusses are generally unknown to readers today), index it thoroughly, add an appendix with a wealth of additional information about Dr. Hill and his work, and revise the book in ways to help remove certain “impediments” to reading the book today (language that today would be considered obsolete, sexist or racist). None of these things had previously been done with TGR.
If you would like to learn a little more about this project, a quick visit to http://www.tgr-restored-revised.com will give you some details. The “Editor’s Foreword” provides more complete information, and the “Testimonials” page will demonstrate how well-received this new book is around the world. Here is the book’s Amazon.com page:
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-Restored/dp/1593302002/sr=1-1/qid=1172004763/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1493475-7148634?ie=UTF8&s=books
The book is available on all the Amazon websites and most other online sellers, it can be ordered by any bookstore, and it will start appearing in bookstores soon.
Our edition of TGR! is superior in every way to other versions on the market. It is a trade paperback, not a pocket-size mass market paperback. It is 412 pages versus 230+ (depending on the edition). It looks better, feels better, reads better than any other version. It is fast becoming the “version of choice” among Napoleon Hill devotees and other students of success and high achievement.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Ross Cornwell, Editor
Left by Ross Cornwell on April 23rd, 2007