«Think and Grow Rich» is one of the most influential self-help and personal success books of the twentieth century: Napoleon Hill published it in 1937, during the Great Depression, after supposedly spending twenty years interviewing American industrialists and magnates such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison.
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Published in 1937 after interviewing 500 of America's wealthiest men — Carnegie, Ford, Edison — Napoleon Hill distills thirteen principles of the philosophy behind extraordinary economic success. The most influential personal finance book of the 20th century with over 100 million copies sold.
«Think and Grow Rich» is one of the most influential self-help and personal success books of the twentieth century: Napoleon Hill published it in 1937, during the Great Depression, after supposedly spending twenty years interviewing American industrialists and magnates such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison. The book distills those conversations into thirteen principles — burning desire, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, persistence, the power of the «mastermind», the mystery of sexual energy as creative force, the subconscious, the brain, and the sixth sense — which Hill presents as the laws of economic success. Its influence on subsequent self-help literature is difficult to overstate: most genre books published in the twentieth century contain ideas that trace directly or indirectly to this text. Critical reading, however, is mandatory: Hill mixes legitimate psychological observations about motivation and persistence with esoteric claims about mental telepathy and subconscious communication that have no empirical backing. Additionally, the methodology behind the supposed interviews has been historically questioned. The book is useful as historical material on the success mindset of the interwar period and as a document of American enrichment rhetoric, not as a verifiable personal finance manual.
For readers interested in the history of self-help and success thinking; those seeking a concrete, evidence-based financial manual should choose a different title.
Fact«Think and Grow Rich» was published in 1937 during the American Great Depression and has become one of the best-selling nonfiction books of all time, though Hill's research methodology has been questioned by historians.
