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Book summary and verdict
Think and Grow Rich
Hill says pick a number, make a plan, keep going, and somehow redirect being horny into revenue, which is useful advice until the universe ignores you and the book decides your poverty has an attitude problem. Now your overdraft is a personality flaw.
Should you read it?
Read it if you need enough confidence to finally start. Skip it if you already blame yourself for everything, because this book will watch a piano fall on you and ask whether your desire was specific.
L.The book says intense belief attracts money. I offered the landlord intensity. He preferred money.
The ideas
I · Desire
Give the goal a number and a date. The fantasy is now an appointment, and somehow you are already late.
The book wants you thinking about money constantly, until every harmless pleasure looks like an employee stealing from the company. You cannot enjoy a sandwich anymore. The sandwich has poor quarterly results.
Pick the exact sum, decide what work you will trade for it, set a deadline, make a plan, and write it down. Your fantasy has paperwork now.
This part works because “I want to be successful” gives you enough room to rearrange your desk for a year and call it momentum. “I want five new clients and another twenty thousand dollars by December” gives you a target, a date, and eventually a very uncomfortable December.
Now failure knows where to find you.
L.Specificity is rude. It asks what you did Tuesday.
II · Belief
Read your money goal aloud morning and night. By Thursday, your family will offer you cash just to change the subject.
The rest of this idea is in the app.
III · Action
Decide what you want, make a plan, start, and try again before one bad afternoon becomes your entire personality.
The rest of this idea is in the app.
IV · Alliance
You need the rare bastard who ruins your plan before the plan ruins you.
The rest of this idea is in the app.
V · Ether
Eventually Hill takes being horny and turns it into a regional plumbing business.
The rest of this idea is in the app.
What to actually do
Write down one thing you genuinely want. Make it measurable and give it a deadline.
Smaller: Not “be successful.” Try “five new clients and another twenty thousand dollars by December.” Now failure knows where to find you.
L.The universe does not need a briefing.
Write down the next boring action required, then do it tonight.
Smaller: Send the application. Make the appointment. Ask for the meeting. Cancel the subscription. Finish the proposal. Put on trousers.
L.Destiny can wait until after the email.
Tell one reliable person what you will do and by when.
Smaller: Choose someone who has survived your previous fresh starts.
L.When the deadline arrives, show them what you did. If you did nothing, say the excuse aloud and listen to it die.
If the goal is money, open your banking app and do the ugly little math.
Smaller: Check the balance, make one transfer, or cancel one expense. Your bank does not accept confidence as a deposit.
L.The numbers are rude because they know.
Still in the app
- What happened when people tried them
- Bullshit?
- Where readers disagree
- The one thing worth remembering
The rest of this book is in the app.
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