The Law of Success Vol I Part 1- Napoleon Hill - The Principles of Self-...

-Napoleon Hill's principles on self mastery

I've been listening to the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It is a great book on self mastery in personal and business life. I made a connection between this concept of self mastery and the first three habits in Steven Covey's book (Seven Habits). Steven mentions that you have to be personally in control before you are capable of moving on to the bigger goals leading to interdependence. This book provides many timeless principles (they must be timeless, he wrote it about a century ago) that can be used to make ourselves better people and make better businesses.

I think that the art of self mastery is one of the most important things that we can do as humans. It is all encompassing, and if we are not trying to get better then we are getting worse.

What are you working on now?

Brandon Major
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Winners Never Cheat

As we've been watching the movie in class, I can't help but wonder, "Why are so many people involved in causing this recession? How was this allowed to progress so far and ruin so many people's lives, and how are the businesses OK with doing it?" I've been reading "Winners Never Cheat" and really thinking about what Huntsman has been saying. How can these corporations be fine with what they're doing and not caring what happens to the rest of the world? Sure, they're making millions, sometimes billions of dollars, but is it really worth it morally? How much would it take to buy your morals? In that situation, would you or I do the same things that they did to make so much money?

Dylan Lewis

Nice old guy? eh... not so much.

After watching the video in class i hopped on youtube and watched a bunch of videos about guys like Alan Greenspan. In this video he seems like an innocent old guy who was only trying to help. But after watching the video in class, i'm pretty skeptical. I almost feel like everyone in the world is a cheating backstabber these days. But it is what it is, and we just move on. But, it gives me hope that by being honesty and having integrity that i can still make it in the world out there. That nice guys don't actually finish last!

Unfortunately to many, Alan Greenspan walked on water, but in reality he can't actually do it. but he CAN do the "Triple Lindy"

movie and winners

While watching the movie in class it made me think of the book "Winners Never Cheat". Interesting to have read the book all about how if you can be a good person and still be successful. Actually he said that is the only way to stay successful. Then sad to see the other side of things in the video. John Huntsman is right though about how when you cut corners to win you succeed quickly but at some point you will fall and when you do fall it will be hard and lasting! Nice to see some of those weasels get caught for fraud and put in jail. What hit me and disturbs me the most while watching the film is how creepy the dishonest men look. You can see and almost feel even through the screen a darkness about them. There is no way that they are genuinely happy which was really evident to me when a lot of them had tons of outrageous possessions. Seems like they are never satisfied but always wanting more to fill in the void in their hearts. I love how Huntsman said that honesty and playing by the rules is the only way to fun real purpose and happiness in this life. Those evil men are missing out on so much joy! Makes me want to give more to others and never waver in my values. What does it make you want to do?

Nice Guys Finish Last

In winners never cheat there was a chapter that talked about nice guys finishishing last and how that statement is false, I can definatley see were he is coming from and that in some ways thats true. But I do not completley agree, There are many areas that a nice guy might finish last, that even though they kept there ethical conduct if they wouldnt have they could have got ahead. Im not saying that its right to do so but in this world today, there are no prizes for being nice, that doesnt bring home a salary to feed your kids, you dont get a good job, in the real world today its extremeley unlikley to be NICE and ethical and finish first, True Hunstmen claims to have done so, And he is successesful this will admit but im sure there has been at least one time in his profession that he wasnt the NICE guy, There was probabley at least one time were he wasnt that peson and did what had to be done. This is all opionion mind you, I agree that you can be nice and be successfull but there are times when we cannot be NICE 100% of the time due to human desire and greed, Im sure that if he would have been border line bank rupt and needed to use his friend that was going through a tough time, he would have done it, im not saying its right to do so, I dont think one bit of it is, but that section really made me wonder how NICE he really was and if he was 100% of the time...

Back in to the Box...

While I have been reading "Winners Never Cheat," I can't help but wonder what goes through a certain person's brain when they give someone a bum deal. I am always honest in everything that I do. Sometimes I am brutally honest. But these last few class periods have all kind of hit home for me. While I have been thinking about finding a career, I haven't been looking for something I actually love doing. I have thought about what is going to make me the most money. My aim was completely off. All of that stuff that you work for all of your life just goes "back in to the box" at the end of the day. Is that really important? I have made it a goal to myself to look for any opportunity I can to improve my leadership skills no matter what. It has caused me to have a paradigm shift. What is your focus? What is important to you?

Remember the Titans

Im going through the workbook to get it done for friday and I was reviewing the Win-Win principle. These two clips show very well the principles of the Win-Win perspective and also Seek to understand before seeking to be understood.



Both Julius and Gary seem to have two different paradigms. Julius shows a Win type mentality but ends up helping Gary to achieve a Win-Win mentality. As Gary is the captain, he failed to understand his teammates and thus failed to achieve good leadership. After this "evaluation," we can see the results in the second clip which really leads the team into their success for the rest of the movie.

The benefits of the application of these principles will help our careers and lifestyles just as it did their team. However as the movie shows, it doesnt come without hard work and perseverance.

-Jeff Bailey