Think and Grow Rich
Faith vs Fear
By Napoleon Hill
Previous chapters have described how to develop FAITH, through Auto-suggestion, Desire and the Subconscious. The next chapter presents detailed instructions for the mastery of FEAR.
Here will be. found a full description of the six fears which are the cause of all discouragement, timidity, procrastination, indifference, indecision, and the lack of ambition, self-reliance, initiative, self-control, and [...]
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How To Outwit The Six Ghosts Of Fear
By Napoleon Hill
Take Inventory of Yourself, As You Read This Closing Chapter, and Find out How Many of the “Ghosts” Are Standing in Your Way.
BEFORE you can put any portion of this philosophy into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it. The preparation is not difficult. It begins with study, analysis, and understanding of [...]
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The Six Basic Fears
By Napoleon Hill
There are six basic fears, with some combination of which every human suffers at one time or another. Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six. Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are:
The fear of POVERTY
The fear of CRITICISM
The fear of ILL HEALTH
The fear of LOSS [...]
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The Fear of Poverty
By Napoleon Hill
There can be no compromise between POVERTY and RICHES! The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty. (The word “riches” is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental and material estates). The [...]
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Money Talks!
By Napoleon Hill
Some will ask, “why did you write a book about money? Why measure riches in dollars, alone?” Some will believe, and rightly so, that there are other forms of riches more desirable than money. Yes, there are riches which cannot be measured in terms of dollars, but there are millions of people who will say, [...]
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The Fear of Criticism
By Napoleon Hill
Just how man originally came by this fear, no one can state definitely, but one thing is certain–he has it in a highly developed form. Some believe that this fear made its appearance about the time that politics became a “profession.” Others believe it can be traced to the age when women first began to [...]
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The Fear of Ill Health and Sickness
By Napoleon Hill
This fear may be traced to both physical and social heredity. It is closely associated, as to its origin, with the causes of fear of Old Age and the fear of Death, because it leads one closely to the border of “terrible worlds” of which man knows not, but concerning which he has been taught [...]
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The Fear of Loss of Love
By Napoleon Hill
The original source of this inherent fear needs but little description, because it obviously grew out of man’s polygamous habit of stealing his fellowman’s mate, and his habit of taking liberties with her whenever he could.
Jealousy, and other similar forms of dementia praecox grow out of man’s inherited fear of the loss of love of [...]
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The Fear of Growing Old
By Napoleon Hill
In the main, this fear grows out of two sources. First, the thought that old age may bring with it POVERTY. Secondly, and by far the most common source of origin, from false and cruel teachings of the past which have been too well mixed with “fire and brimstone,” and other bogies cunningly designed to [...]
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The Fear of Death
By Napoleon Hill
To some this is the cruelest of all the basic fears. The reason is obvious. The terrible pangs of fear associated with the thought of death, in the majority of cases, may be charged directly to religious fanaticism. So-called “heathen” are less afraid of death than the more “civilized.” For hundreds of millions of years [...]
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