Yawn and Grow Rich Course
By Paul Adams – The Yawn Guy
SECTION X: POWER OF THE MASTER MIND
- Text in black (after legend) = original text of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Text in blue = paragraph numbers and course instructions to you, the student
- DEMO = draw out pictures of real-life situations on paper using stick figures for you, your partner, your boss etc. Demos will help considerably with your understanding. Do not use a lot of words in the demo. Demo the ideas as they apply to your own life. You can also do demos at your discretion to help with any "non-demo" paragraph too. If you are feeling "light-headed" from too much theory, do lots of real-life demos until the light-headedness goes away.
- PRACTICAL = an assignment for you to do now before continuing to read further in the text. Sometimes it will be something for you to do later in the day, or a continuing action, and if so this will be stated.
- Text in green = explanation, not written by Napoleon Hill
- Mark the radio buttons ( | ) honestly as you do each paragraph. Note that these buttons will clear when you close your browser. It is not a good idea to leave lots of "Hmmm"s behind you. (That doesn't mean close your browser often!)
- Look up any word or phrase you don't understand when you first encounter it. This is important—don't guess or slide by without getting it. Use it in sentences of your own until you fully get it. This might take a few or it might take ten or more sentences.
- If you really can't understand a paragraph and it does seems like you understand every word, click on the "Didn't get it" link at the end of that paragraph. Follow the instructions you find there. This is different to a "negative reaction". "Didn't get it" means you have gone foggy or blank and didn't understand the paragraph, either the whole of it or some part of it.
- If you understood the paragraph, but have a negative reaction to the text, first make sure you understand the words the author is using, and the idea he is trying to put across. In other words, make sure your reaction is to what the author is saying, not to what you misunderstand him to be saying. If the reaction persists, click on the "Negative reaction" link and follow the instructions there. An example of a negative reaction would be "Oh! I'll never be able to do that!"
CHAPTER 10: POWER OF THE MASTER MIND
THE DRIVING FORCE
The Ninth Step toward Riches
10.0 IMPORTANT NOTE: There are several
mentions in this chapter of items like "psychic phenomena" and "mind
vibrations". Do NOT discount these ideas because they may seem
old-fashioned or unscientific. Modern variations like the "Law of
Attraction" and "The Secret" are but a small part of the whole story
that Napoleon Hill gives in his book. If you feel that you are
discounting these non-material aspects while reading this chapter, apply
Yes-No Yawning to the situation.
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10.1 POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money.
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10.2 DEMO: PLANS are inert and
useless, without sufficient POWER to translate them into ACTION. This
chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and
apply POWER.
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10.3 DEMO: POWER may be defined
as "organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE." Power, as the term
is here used, refers to ORGANIZED effort, sufficient to enable an
individual to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. ORGANIZED
effort is produced through the coordination of effort of two or more
people, who work toward a DEFINITE end, in a spirit of harmony.
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10.4 DEMO: POWER IS REQUIRED FOR THE ACCUMULATION OF MONEY! POWER IS NECESSARY FOR THE RETENTION OF MONEY AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED!
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10.5 Let us ascertain how power may be acquired. If power is "organized knowledge," let us examine the sources of knowledge:
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10.6 DEMO: a. |
INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. This source of knowledge may be contacted
through the procedure described in another chapter, with the aid of
Creative Imagination. |
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10.7 DEMO: b. |
ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE. The accumulated experience of man, (or that
portion of it which has been organized and recorded), may be found in
any well-equipped public library. An important part of this
accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges, where
it has been classified and organized. |
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10.8 DEMO: c. |
EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH. In the field of science, and in
practically every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying,
and organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which one must
turn when knowledge is not available through "accumulated experience."
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10.9 DEMO: Knowledge may be
acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be converted into
POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by expressing those plans
in terms of ACTION.
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10.10 Examination of the three
major sources of knowledge will readily disclose the difficulty an
individual would have, if he depended upon his efforts alone, in
assembling knowledge and expressing it through definite plans in terms
of ACTION. If his plans are comprehensive, and if they contemplate large
proportions, he must, generally, induce others to cooperate with him,
before he can inject into them the necessary element of POWER.
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GAINING POWER THROUGH THE "MASTER MIND"
10.11 DEMO: The "Master Mind"
may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of
harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite
purpose."
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10.12 DEMO: No individual may
have great power without availing himself of the "Master Mind." In a
preceding chapter, instructions were given for the creation of PLANS for
the purpose of translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. If you
carry out these instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use
discrimination in the selection of your "Master Mind" group, your
objective will have been half-way reached, even before you begin to
recognize it.
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10.13 So you may better
understand the "intangible" potentialities of power available to you,
through a properly chosen "Master Mind" group, we will here explain the
two characteristics of the Master Mind principle, one of which is
economic in nature, and the other psychic. The economic feature is
obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any person who surrounds
himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a group of
men who are willing to lend him wholehearted aid, in a spirit of
PERFECT HARMONY. This form of cooperative alliance has been the basis of
nearly every great fortune. Your understanding of this great truth may
definitely determine your financial status.
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10.14 DEMO: The psychic phase of
the Master Mind principle is much more abstract, much more difficult to
comprehend, because it has reference to the spiritual forces with which
the human race, as a whole, is not well acquainted. You may catch a
significant suggestion from this statement: "No two minds ever come
together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force
which may be likened to a third mind."
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10.15 Keep in mind the fact that
there are only two known elements in the whole universe, energy and
matter. It is a well known fact that matter may be broken down into
units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. There are units of matter
which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed.
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10.16 Likewise, there are units of energy.
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10.17 The human mind is a form
of energy, a part of it being spiritual in nature. When the minds of two
people are coordinated in a SPIRIT OF HARMONY, the spiritual units of
energy of each mind form an affinity, which constitutes the "psychic"
phase of the Master Mind.
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10.18 The Master Mind principle,
or rather the economic feature of it, was first called to my attention
by Andrew Carnegie, over twenty-five years ago. Discovery of this
principle was responsible for the choice of my life's work.
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10.19 Mr. Carnegie's Master Mind
group consisted of a staff of approximately fifty men, with whom he
surrounded himself, for the DEFINITE PURPOSE of manufacturing and
marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the POWER he
accumulated through this "Master Mind."
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10.20 Analyze the record of any
man who has accumulated a great fortune, and many of those who have
accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either
consciously, or unconsciously employed the "Master Mind" principle.
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10.21 GREAT POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO OTHER PRINCIPLE!
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10.22 ENERGY is Nature's
universal set of building blocks, out of which she constructs every
material thing in the universe, including man, and every form of animal
and vegetable life. Through a process which only Nature completely
understands, she translates energy into matter.
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10.23 Nature's building blocks
are available to man, in the energy involved in THINKING! Man's brain
may be compared to an electric battery. It absorbs energy from the
ether, which permeates every atom of matter, and fills the entire
universe.
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10.24 It is a well known fact
that a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a
single battery. It is also a well known fact that an individual battery
will provide energy in proportion to the number and capacity of the
cells it contains.
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10.25 The brain functions in a
similar fashion. This accounts for the fact that some brains are more
efficient than others, and leads to this significant statement—a group
of brains coordinated (or connected) in a spirit of harmony, will
provide more thought-energy than a single brain, just as a group of
electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
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10.26 Through this metaphor it
becomes immediately obvious that the Master Mind principle holds the
secret of the POWER wielded by men who surround themselves with other
men of brains.
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10.27 DEMO: There follows, now,
another statement which will lead still nearer to an understanding of
the psychic phase of the Master Mind principle: When a group of
individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony, the increased
energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every
individual brain in the group.
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10.28 It is a well known fact
that Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty,
illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well known fact that,
within the inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr. Ford mastered
these three handicaps, and that within twenty-five years he made himself
one of the richest men in America. Connect with this fact, the
additional knowledge that Mr. Ford's most rapid strides became
noticeable, from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A.
Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind
upon another can accomplish. Go a step farther, and consider the fact
that Mr. Ford's most outstanding achievements began from the time that
he formed the acquaintances of Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and
Luther Burbank, (each a man of great brain capacity), and you will have
further evidence that POWER may be produced through friendly alliance of
minds.
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10.29 There is little if any
doubt that Henry Ford is one of the best informed men in the business
and industrial world. The question of his wealth needs no discussion.
Analyze Mr. Ford's intimate personal friends, some of whom have already
been mentioned, and you will be prepared to understand the following
statement:
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10.30 DEMO: "Men take on the
nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they
associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony."
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10.30.1 PRACTICAL: Learn the above sentence verbatim.Practical done
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10.30.2 PRACTICAL: Carefully look over
your own life, and see how this principle has applied in your life.
Look at the people you have associated with in a spirit of sympathy and
harmony, even if you have been in harmony with criminals and thugs, and
see how these people have influenced your life in terms of you changing
all three factors of nature; habits; and power of thought to match
theirs. Do this for as long as it takes until you REALLY get it.Practical done
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10.30.3 PRACTICAL: Work out and add to
your master plan steps to associate MORE with people who will assist you
with your NEW life; and steps to associate LESS with people who will
hold you to your OLD life. If you have reservations about doing this
practical, apply Yes-No Yawning to the situation, then redo the above
three steps and after that have another go at it.Practical done
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10.31 Henry Ford whipped
poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance by allying himself with great minds,
whose vibrations of thought he absorbed into his own mind. Through his
association with Edison, Burbank, Burroughs, and Firestone, Mr. Ford
added to his own brain power, the sum and substance of the intelligence,
experience, knowledge, and spiritual forces of these four men.
Moreover, he appropriated, and made use of the Master Mind principle
through the methods of procedure described in this book.
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10.32 This principle is available to you!
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10.33 We have already mentioned
Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of those who have heard of Gandhi,
look upon him as merely an eccentric little man, who goes around without
formal wearing apparel, and makes trouble for the British Government.
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10.34 In reality, Gandhi is not
eccentric, but HE IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN NOW LIVING. (Estimated by the
number of his followers and their faith in their leader.) Moreover, he
is probably the most powerful man who has ever lived. His power is
passive, but it is real.
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10.35 Let us study the method by
which he attained his stupendous POWER. It may be explained in a few
words. He came by POWER through inducing over two hundred million people
to coordinate, with mind and body, in a spirit of HARMONY, for a
DEFINITE PURPOSE.
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10.36 In brief, Gandhi has
accomplished a MIRACLE, for it is a miracle when two hundred million
people can be induced—not forced—to cooperate in a spirit of HARMONY,
for a limitless time. If you doubt that this is a miracle, try to induce
ANY TWO PEOPLE to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for any length of time.
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10.37 Every man who manages a
business knows what a difficult matter it is to get employees to work
together in a spirit even remotely resembling HARMONY.
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10.38 The list of the chief
sources from which POWER may be attained is, as you have seen, headed by
INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. When two or more people coordinate in a spirit
of HARMONY, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves
in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the
great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. This is the
greatest of all sources of POWER. It is the source to which the genius
turns. It is the source to which every great leader turns, (whether he
may be conscious of the fact or not).
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10.39 The other two major
sources from which the knowledge, necessary for the accumulation of
POWER, may be obtained are no more reliable than the five senses of man.
The senses are not always reliable. Infinite Intelligence DOES NOT ERR.
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10.40 In subsequent chapters, the methods by which Infinite Intelligence may be most readily contacted will be adequately described.
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10.41 This is not a course on
religion. No fundamental principle described in this book should be
interpreted as being intended to interfere either directly, or
indirectly, with any man's religious habits. This book has been
confined, exclusively, to instructing the reader how to transmute the
DEFINITE PURPOSE OF DESIRE FOR MONEY, into its monetary equivalent.
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10.42 Read, THINK, and
meditate as you read. Soon, the entire subject will unfold, and you will
see it in perspective. You are now seeing the detail of the individual
chapters.
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10.43 Money is as shy and
elusive as the "old time" maiden. It must be wooed and won by methods
not unlike those used by a determined lover, in pursuit of the girl of
his choice. And, coincidental as it is, the POWER used in the "wooing"
of money is not greatly different from that used in wooing a maiden.
That power, when successfully used in the pursuit of money must be mixed
with FAITH. It must be mixed with DESIRE. It must be mixed with
PERSISTENCE. It must be applied through a plan, and that plan must be
set into ACTION.
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10.44 When money comes in
quantities known as "the big money," it flows to the one who accumulates
it, as easily as water flows down hill. There exists a great unseen
stream of POWER, which may be compared to a river; except that one side
flows in one direction, carrying all who get into that side of the
stream, onward and upward to WEALTH—and the other side flows in the
opposite direction, carrying all who are unfortunate enough to get into
it (and not able to extricate themselves from it), downward to misery
and POVERTY.
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10.45 Every man who has
accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the existence of this stream
of life. It consists of one's THINKING PROCESS. The positive emotions
of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to fortune. The
negative emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty.
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10.46 This carries a thought of
stupendous importance to the person who is following this book with the
object of accumulating a fortune.
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10.47 If you are in the side of
the stream of POWER which leads to poverty, this may serve as an oar, by
which you may propel yourself over into the other side of the stream.
It can serve you ONLY through application and use. Merely reading, and
passing judgment on it, either one way or another, will in no way
benefit you.
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10.48 Some people undergo the
experience of alternating between the positive and negative sides of the
stream, being at times on the positive side, and at times on the
negative side. The Wall Street crash of ’29 swept millions of people
from the positive to the negative side of the stream. These millions are
struggling, some of them in desperation and fear, to get back to the
positive side of the stream. This book was written especially for those
millions.
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10.49 Poverty and riches often
change places. The Crash taught the world this truth, although the world
will not long remember the lesson. Poverty may, and generally does,
voluntarily take the place of riches. When riches take the place of
poverty, the change is usually brought about through well-conceived and
carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid
it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have
to be "attracted."
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10.FDS PRACTICAL: Skim over the chapter again to refamiliarize yourself with the main ideas, then check over the False Data Stripping questions with regard to it, using the PaulsRobot3 FDSing module. Remember the idea is to FIND and deal with False Data, not to confirm that of course you don't have any. :). Once you have found and dealt with any false data, study this chapter once more before going on to the next one. You can decide which demos and practicals you should do again.
10.LEC FINAL PRACTICAL: Deliver a 3-5 minute
lecture (by the clock) on the main points of this chapter, without using
any notes at all. You don't have to use people for an audience; use
the dog or the wall if you prefer. If you don't know the subject well
enough to do this, do the entire section again, paragraphs 10.0 to
10.FDS, including all demos. This is a test of your understanding, not
your ability to remember a collection of words or phrases. Working out
how to explain the main points to someone else—IN SPOKEN WORDS,
ALOUD—is usually a very valuable aid to your own understanding.
CONGRATULATIONS! END OF SECTION 10
Next: Chapter 11. The Mystery of Sex Transmutation (The Tenth Step toward Riches)