Last we discussed Think And Grow Rich, we talked about the crucial need to develop the mind and cultivate creative faculties.

Today we talk more about the best ways to do this – the most powerful stimuli known to man or woman.

The Most Powerful Stimuli

Among the greatest and most powerful of these stimuli is the urge of sex. When harnessed and transmuted, this driving force is capable of lifting men and women into that higher sphere of thought which enables them to master the sources of worry and petty annoyance which muddle their pathway on the lower plane.

Unfortunately, only the geniuses have made the discovery. Others have accepted the experience of sexual urge, without discovering one of its major potentialities—a fact which accounts for the great number of “others” as compared to the limited number of geniuses.

Proving The Power

To refresh the memory, in connection with the facts available from the biographies of certain men, presented here are the names of a few men of outstanding achievement, each of whom was known to have been of a highly sexed nature. The genius which was their’s, undoubtedly found its source of power in transmuted sex energy:

• GEORGE WASHINGTON
• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON
• ROBERT BURNS
• THOMAS JEFFERSON
• ELBERT HUBBARD
• ELBERT H. GARY
• OSCAR WILDE
• WOODROW WILSON
• JOHN H. PATTERSON
• ANDREW JACKSON
• ENRICO CARUSO

Your own knowledge of biography will enable you to add to this list. Find, if you can, a single man, in all history of civilization, who achieved outstanding success in any calling, who was not driven by a well developed sex nature.

If you do not wish to rely on biographies of men not now living, take inventory of those you know to be persons of great achievement, and see if you can find one among them who is not highly sexed.

The Creative Energy Of Genius

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder, or artist lacking in this driving force of sex.

Surely no one will misunderstand these statements to mean that all who are highly sexed are geniuses! Man attains the status of genius only when, and if, he stimulates his mind so that it draws upon the forces available, through the creative faculty of the imagination. Chief among the stimuli with which this “stepping up” of brain energy may be produced is sexual energy. The mere possession of this energy is not sufficient enough to produce a genius. The energy must be transmuted from desire for physical contact, into some other form of desire and action, before it will lift one to the status of a genius.

Far from becoming geniuses because of great sex desires, the majority of people lower themselves, through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force, to the status of lower animals.

Get To Know The Force

Here we see Napoleon Hill‘s discussion of sex transmutation begin to take a turn. It’s not enough to know simply that the potential exists; you must also know how to capture that power. As he says, pure exercise of one’s ability isn’t going to do it – you have to know how to best capture that instinctive ability and be able to channel it into other kinds of stimulation and power.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2011

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