The title of this post is introduction enough to the next installment from Mindset Mastery, so I’ll let Napoleon Hill continue with the conclusion to this episode.
“Ironically, Darby told this unusual story to the author inside the old mill, on the very spot where the uncle took his whipping. Ironically, too, this story was told to the author after he had devoted nearly a quarter of a century to studying that very power–the power which enabled an ignorant, illiterate colored child to conquer an intelligent man.
As the two (the author and Darby) stood there in that musty old mill, Darby repeated the story of the unusual conquest, and finished by asking, “What can you make of it? What strange power did that child use, that so completely whipped my uncle?”
The answer to his question will be found in the principles detailed in this book. The answer is full and complete. It contains details and instructions sufficient enough to enable anyone to understand and apply the same force the small girl accidentally stumbled upon.”
The power is more than persistence
We’ve mentioned persistence as this power, but to be fair, this power is more than simple persistence. What that additional power is may be different for individual readers, as is its bearing on their own experience and circumstance; Napoleon Hill does not define the power because he wishes for each reader to discover its form and importance on their own, in the way that it will benefit them the greatest. I’ll do the same and not venture too much of my own personal conjecture. We’ll see what else of it we can uncover as we move along.
I will see you back here Monday and Thursday every week for the continuation of the Mindset Mastery series.
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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Hi Sean,
When I was younger I realized my power was not so much my persistance but rather the catalyst or ‘reason’ I would persist in something, and it was always when someone told me I couldn’t do something.
Not always in an authoritative sense (although this still gets up my goat), but just in a sense of not believing that it was possible. People don’t think you can do something but deep down they don’t think they can do it.
I have no idea why I said this when I was around 13-14, but I declared to my Mum that I was going to change the world. Without even lifting her nose form her book she replied, you will never do that, it can’t be done. I silently declared that I was going to now change the world 10 times over. Hmmm such was my way.
But I have since learned that although a good motivator, at some point your motivation needs to have a reason that drives you internally, a sense of purpose in life beyond what you see, but what you feel. Too many people glitter and shine in the public eye only to be in pain internally.
I look forward to more on this topic
Dean
I read alot of Hill when was younger. Excellent information.