personal finance and career success
I abandoned this series (based on the 31 causes of failure Napoleon Hill lists in his classic Think and Grow Rich) for a while, but then I decided that abandoning it was actually succumbing to the fifth and most recent cause I wrote about: Lack of self-discipline. Unfortunately the next cause of failure is one [...] Read more »
I have a stupid phrase I like to bark out at everyone (including the extraordinarily unimpressed Bubelah): “Focus and discipline! These are our watchwords!” I suppose I ripped that off from a movie. I yell it out a la Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men.” You know the scene – when Nicholson famously snaps [...] Read more »
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey This is a continuation of my series on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich that began with this post. Of the causes of failure listed by Napolean Hill, insufficient education is one of the simplest to overcome. Too often the word “education” [...] Read more »
This is a continuation of my series on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich that began with this post. The Third Cause of Failure: Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity I was a high school athlete. I was a varsity tennis player, and I had my moments; I was a varsity member of [...] Read more »
photo credit: puroticorico This is a continuation of my series on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich that began last week. Hill makes a brutal assessment in his book: in his experience, 98 out of 100 people lacked a well-defined purpose in life. Let’s take a step back and think about that: only 2 [...] Read more »
This week I’m going to start another series. These will be posts based on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich. If you’ve been reading Brip Blap you know that this book is a major source of inspiration for me. If you are put off by the title of the book, or the general concept [...] Read more »