Pages of Lists
Posted By PattiM on January 5, 2008
One of the authors I spend time studying is Napoleon Hill. He was born into a dirt poor mountain family in the American south. Illiteracy and complacency compelled several generations of his family to poverty. Hill likely would have lived his life the same way had it not been for the arrival in his life of a step-mother who had no patience with poverty or illiteracy and had the will to speak up.
Inspired by this woman, Hill set out to learn how others acquired wealth so that he might do the same. He spent twenty-five years on this quest, attaining access to and analyzing the life work of over 100 men and women who had attained outstanding success in their fields of work and to 20,000 who were classed as “failures”.
During those twenty-five years Hill organized his work into the “Law of Success” philosophy and lived that philosophy to prove it worked. His findings are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them.
Throughout his work can be found lists. Those lists become the base for expanding on his philosophy. Pages containing those lists will be appearing on this blog. As I explore his works in greater depth, my posts will reflect my understanding of those lists and the other principles he writes about.
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