Think and Grow Rich: The 21st-Century Updated Edition Chapter 2 starts with how a man, Edwin C. Barnes who with his bulldog determination and persistence and focusing on a single desire had mowed down all opposition to finally become the business partner of Thomas A. Edison.

I like the part that talks about how opportunities often come disguised and slipping in by the back door. And often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

It then explain that one f the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when you are overtaken by temporary defeat and every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

The above characteristic of giving up too soon is so true through the evidence of meeting so many aspiring internet and network marketers while building my business. In fact, I hasten to add that many of them did not even get to start at all. Many a time, when a distributor joins a network marketing company, he/she got excited, phoned a few people and met with a few rejections and then concluded that network marketing does not work…

… it’s the same for some internet marketers I’ve seen who just created one product for sale and then expect it to be an overnight sensation. And when it didn’t, they don’t make any attempts to improve the product or website and concluded that internet marketing does not work!

In this chapter, I specially like the commentary which I quote a little directly from the book:

“… Wayne Allyn Root to write his book The Joy of Failure… which proved that the rich and famous got to be that way only because of what they learned from their failures.

“People such as Jack Welch, the hugely successful CEO of General Electric, who, early in his career, failed dramatically when a plastics plant for which he was responsible blew up.

“Billionaire Charles Schwab was a failure at school and university, flunking Basic English twice due to a learning disability, and then failed on Wall Street more than once, before the thought of the idea that grew to make him very rich indeed.

“Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Steven Jobs, Donald Trump… had to fail in order to learn the lessons that ultimately made them successes. Every one of them was a failure, but none of them was defeated.”

The chapter concludes with the notion that we must magnetize our minds with intense desire for riches … becoming ‘money conscious’ until the desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.

It is said that Napoleon Hill and Think And Grow Rich had made more millionaires than any other person in history!

It is practically impossible to find a motivational speaker who does not draw on Hill’s work. Traces of Napoleon’s principles can be found in the works of successful contemporary men like Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Steven Covey, etc.

With an unwavering dedication, Napoleon Hill spent nearly 30 years of his life and wrote Think And Grow Rich after analyzing more than 500 well-known millionaires.
Some of these millionaires are listed below:

• Henry Ford (Ford automobile)
• George Eastman (Kodak)
• Charles M. Schwab (Andrew Carnegie’s right hand man)
• Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President)
• Thomas A. Edison (inventor with more than 1000 patents)
• Edwin C. Barnes (the only partner of Thomas Edison)
• Woodrow Wilson (28th US President)
• And many more…

Think and Grow Rich: The 21st-Century Updated Edition is a new and updated edition in which every aspect of Think And Grow Rich has been analyzed to ensure its relevance to the current business climate. Quoting directly from Chapter 1: The Secret Of Success:

“… In those instances where material might be considered dated or out of step with contemporary practices, the original text has been updated or augmented with relevant new material.

“A hallmark of the original edition of Think And Grow Rich is that in every chapter, Napoleon Hill cites real-life examples based on his own firsthand knowledge of America’s most successful self-made multimillionaires. In this edition, every one ofHill’s stories has been retained, and the editors have added contemporary examples and modern parallels which clearly demonstrate that Hill’s principles are as up-to-date as today, and are still guiding those who succeed.

If you live in the 21st century, you might want to grasp a copy of Think and Grow Rich: The 21st-Century Updated Edition

I almost got a hold on this edition by chance as I was reading Napoleon Hill’s original Think And Grow Rich for the 3rd time…

What happened was I remembered one of my students in my Basic Internet Skills class told me that there’s a new version that give lively, modern day examples which make the original version comes alive and relevant to us living in the 21st century.

However, I mistook Ted Ciuba’s The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill’s Success Classic for the same edition

So, when I head down to Borders*, I went straight to the Business & Marketing section and found ‘Think And Grow Rich: The 21st Century Edition’ thinking that it’s Ted Ciuba’s edition…

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