In two episodes, the guests praised the book for its powerful mindset lessons, noting it had profoundly influenced them while in prison and served as a strong motivator for personal success. Both Freeway Rick Ross and Joey Diaz highlighted how it taught them to harness belief in themselves and pursue wealth, describing it as inspiring and great. The overall tone was enthusiastic endorsement of its impact.
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It was a book he read in prison that blew his mind because it taught him how to use his mind to create and believe in himself.
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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill like just blew my mind, you know, like, fuck, people who actually think like this here, you know, like you can think and grow rich.
Episode: #1448 - Joey Diaz
They said the book was inspiring and a powerful motivator for personal success.
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Napoleon Hill's book.
I think it's a great book.
Episode: JRE MMA Show #89 with Rafael Lovato Jr.
Rafael said he always carries the paperback of "Think and Grow Rich" backstage, discovered it in 2007 and calls it a powerful, inspirational selfhelp bible that fuels his mindset before fights.
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my favorite book thinking grow rich from napoleon hill i always take that was it
it's just a powerful book for my life i discovered it in 2000 the end of 2007
it was just such an inspirational book um and really kind of like the bible for selfhelp books
highlighted portion that says every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent advantage
another one of my favorites from napoleon hill that i've used on shirts and inside a key before
The book was repeatedly highlighted as a cornerstone personal‑development text, with hosts noting its advice to simply start acting and that thoughts shape one’s identity. Bob Proctor mentioned reading it daily, while Jay Shetty and others cited its principles on mastermind groups and mentorship as influential in their own growth. The consensus was that it offered timeless, actionable guidance for achieving goals.
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A quote from Napoleon Hill's book was shared, advising listeners to simply start acting, and the tools needed will follow, suggesting a simple, yet effective approach to achieving goals.
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Recently, I had one from Napoleon Hill and I won't quote it exactly right, but it was something about just get started. The tools will start to come into place once you get started.
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It was mentioned in relation to the idea that your thoughts shape who you become. It was part of the advice from Thomas Power at Accenture.
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You become what you think about.
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It was recommended as a valuable resource for personal development, having been introduced to Bob Proctor by his first mentor. Bob Proctor mentioned that he reads the book every day.
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And he's the one that introduced me to this book. This I've got to help with an elastic now is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
See, here's the book. It's falling apart. I didn't read it. I keep reading it. It isn't something I read. I'm reading it. I read it every day.
Now, that was a commitment that I made on the 21st of October, 1961. Ray Stanford said, if you read that every day, do what I tell you. He said, you have anything you want.
Episode: RUSS ON: How to Focus Your Self-Determination to S...
It was mentioned that Russ and his friend Boogies read this book when they were 17, helping them to understand the power of a mastermind and supporting each other.
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We read Napoleon Hill.
So we understand the power of a mastermind and we just, as big of egos as me and him have, we never let it get in the way of like supporting one another and any of that, you know?
Episode: Jim Kwik: ON How To Learn Faster, Remember More &...
It was mentioned among other classic personal development books that Jim Kwik was encouraged to read as part of his personal development journey.
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There's these incredible biographies of men and women in history. And some very early personal growth books like Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Dale Carnegie, I mean, Napoleon Hill, all the classics, right?
It was mentioned in relation to the idea of not letting energy out and recycling it for productivity; the book's specific relevance to the conversation was not detailed further.
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I think Napoleon Hill and think and grow rich or something talks about just not letting the energy out and then kind of recycling and using for productivity in your life
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It was mentioned in relation to the idea of not letting energy out and recycling it for productivity; the book's specific relevance to the conversation was not detailed further.
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I think Napoleon Hill and think and grow rich or something talks about just not letting the energy out and then kind of recycling and using for productivity in your life
The hosts repeatedly referenced the title as a landmark self‑help bestseller that had sold millions and was still found on used‑bookstore shelves. They noted that it was essentially a refined rehash of Hill’s earlier work, heavily edited by his fourth wife, and that it introduced a quasi‑spiritual blend of business advice that foreshadowed later works like 'The Secret.' While acknowledging its massive cultural impact, they critiqued its originality and questioned the quality of Hill’s own writing.
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It was a massive commercial success and was written after Napoleon Hill's initial success with Law of Success; it was a collaboration with his fourth wife, Rosalie, who was a more competent writer and editor.
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Think and Grow Rich is one of those books that is hard to oversell the success of and like and overemphasize its impact on society by some counts that sold as many as 20 million copies.
Any used bookstore you go to will have one or a few copies of Think and Grow Rich.
Think and Grow Rich was essentially just a refining and rehashing of the best parts of Napoleon's first book, Law of Success.
It's still very, very common and very popular.
Episode: Part One: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was described as a precursor to 'The Secret', and was said to be the first self-help book to mix business advice with spiritual and metaphysical ideas.
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Everybody's seen... Hell yeah. Everybody listening to this if you don't have a copy of the book you have a friend or family member who has this somewhere on their bookshelf. It's like proto the secret.
This is my problem with Mary Ann Williamson is like she's funny and all and she talks about governing with love and all but then like I read her book and it's kind of Think and Grow Rich.
Yeah and that's part of why I want to talk about Think and Grow Rich today because Napoleon Hill sort of founded via the...he wasn't like the first self-help author. Right. He wasn't like the first business advice author but he was the first guy to kind of in a modern sense do this sort of quasi almost spiritual approach to like business and personal life advice where like you're mixing in success advice on like how to run a company with like weird metaphysical theories.
Episode: Part Two: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was a rehash of the best parts of his first book, the Law of Success. It became a massive bestseller and a hugely popular and influential self-help book.
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Think and Grow Rich is one of those books that is hard to oversell the success of and like and overemphasize its impact on society by some counts that sold as many as 20 million copies.
Any used bookstore you go to will have one or a few copies of Think and Grow Rich.
Now Think and Grow Rich was essentially just a refining and rehashing of the best parts of Napoleon's first book, Law of Success.
Episode: Part One: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was described as a precursor to 'The Secret', and was mentioned as being a book that many people have on their shelves. It was discussed as a quasi-spiritual approach to business and personal life advice, blending conventional success tips with metaphysical ideas.
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Everybody's seen... Hell yeah. Everybody listening to this if you don't have a copy of the book you have a friend or family member who has this somewhere on their bookshelf. It's like proto the secret.
This is my problem with Mary Ann Williamson is like she's funny and all and she talks about governing with love and all but then like I read her book and it's kind of Think and Grow Rich.
And that's part of why I want to talk about Think and Grow Rich today because Napoleon Hill sort of founded... he wasn't like the first self-help author.
Episode: Part Two: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It became a bestseller, although heavily edited by Rosalie, Hill's fourth wife, who later left him. It was largely a rehashing of his first book, and it popularized affirmations and the idea of transmuting sexual energy.
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Think and Grow Rich is one of those books that is hard to oversell the success of and like and overemphasize its impact on society by some counts that sold as many as 20 million copies.
Yeah, it's fucking everywhere and it's still very, very common and very popular.
Think and Grow Rich was essentially just a refining and rehashing of the best parts of Napoleon's first book, Law of Success.
The desire for sexual expression is by far the strongest and most impelling of all the human emotions. For this very reason, this desire when harnessed and transmuted into action other than that of physical expression may raise one to the status of a genius.
Controlled sex supplies the magnetic force that attracts people to one another. It is the most important factor of a pleasing personality. It gives quality to the tone of the voice and enables one to convey through the voice any feeling desired.
Episode: Part One: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was described as a precursor to "The Secret" and was compared to Marianne Williamson's work, which had similar themes of success and positive thinking.
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Everybody's seen...Hell yeah. Everybody listening to this if you don't have a copy of the book you have a friend or family member who has this somewhere on their bookshelf. It's like proto the secret.
Yeah and that's part of why I want to talk about Think and Grow Rich today because Napoleon Hill sort of founded...he wasn't like the first self-help author.
Episode: Part Two: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was a huge success and is still popular, mostly due to the fact that it was well-written, though Napoleon Hill was a terrible writer and it was his wife who edited the text.
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Think and Grow Rich is one of those books that is hard to oversell the success of and like and overemphasize its impact on society by some counts that sold as many as 20 million copies.
Any used bookstore you go to will have one or a few copies of Think and Grow Rich.
I've never I've never read it, but I think it's people say it's a well written self-help book, which I think is probably mostly due to Rosalie.
Think and Grow Rich was essentially just a refining and rehashing of the best parts of Napoleon's first book, Law of Success.
Think and Grow Rich shares what he calls the money making secrets in 13 principles.
Episode: Part One: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was described as a precursor to 'The Secret', with a quasi-spiritual approach to business and personal advice, blending success advice with metaphysical theories. The book was frequently mentioned as being a common find on bookshelves.
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Everybody's seen... Hell yeah. Everybody listening to this if you don't have a copy of the book you have a friend or family member who has this somewhere on their bookshelf.
It's like proto the secret.
This is my problem with Mary Ann Williamson is like she's funny and all and she talks about governing with love and all but then like I read her book and it's kind of Think and Grow Rich.
Yeah and that's part of why I want to talk about Think and Grow Rich today because Napoleon Hill sort of founded via the...he wasn't like the first self-help author.
He was the guy who invented that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Episode: Part Two: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It became a bestselling selfhelp classic, reportedly selling millions of copies and remaining ubiquitous on bookshelves worldwide.
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They sat down to write a new book, Think and Grow Rich. The couple moves in with Napoleon son Blair ... and they succeeded in convincing Hill's old Publisher Pelton to give him a second try.
Think and Grow Rich is one of those books that is hard to oversell the success of and like and overemphasize its impact on society ... It's everywhere and it's still very, very common and very popular.
From Think and Grow Rich, quote, the desire for sexual expression is by far the strongest and most impelling of all the human emotions. For this very reason, this desire when harnessed and transmuted into action other than that of physical expression may raise one to the status of a genius.
And then I said, "I love that he writes a book, Drink and Grow Sober will be out this December."
Episode: Part One: Napoleon Hill: The Grifter Who Invented...
It was described as 'proto The Secret' and compared to Marianne Williamson's work, implying a similar self-help focus on success through positive thinking.
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Everybody's seen...Hell yeah. Everybody listening to this if you don't have a copy of the book you have a friend or family member who has this somewhere on their bookshelf. It's like proto the secret.
This is my problem with Mary Ann Williamson is like she's funny and all and she talks about governing with love and all but then like I read her book and it's kind of Think and Grow Rich.
The book was mentioned as one Napoleon Hill wrote, and it was said to focus on positive mental attitude.
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I like Napoleon Hill. Um, you know, he wrote "Think and Grow Rich," but he has the, also the laws, I forget the, I forget the rules of success. That's what he talks about. Positive mental attitude.
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The book was mentioned as one Napoleon Hill wrote, and it was said to focus on positive mental attitude.
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I like Napoleon Hill. Um, you know, he wrote "Think and Grow Rich," but he has the, also the laws, I forget the, I forget the rules of success. That's what he talks about. Positive mental attitude.
It was mentioned along with other self-help books, such as those by Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey, that Daymond John was consuming during his entrepreneurial journey.
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And so how productive I was going to be later on, or I can put in P&L statements and listen to Tony Robbins and listen to Jay Abraham and Think and Grow Rich and Seven Highly Effective Habits of whate...
— Episode: FUBU: Daymond John
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It was mentioned along with other self-help books, such as those by Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey, that Daymond John was consuming during his entrepreneurial journey.
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And so how productive I was going to be later on, or I can put in P&L statements and listen to Tony Robbins and listen to Jay Abraham and Think and Grow Rich and Seven Highly Effective Habits of whatever people.
Both Adora Crystal Evans and Michelle Blood described how hearing the book in their 20s sparked pivotal moments in their lives—Adora credited it with a career breakthrough and even toured with other self‑help legends, while Michelle said the audiobook inspired her interest in affirmations during a hospital stay. Their remarks highlighted the book’s focus on classic wealthy entrepreneurs and its lasting motivational impact.
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Adora said she read Think and Grow Rich at age 23, which sparked a breakthrough in her career.
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I was 23 years old, I read Think and Grow Rich.
I did a Think and Grow Rich tour with Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Bob Proctor, all the legacy names.
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Michelle recalled listening to an audiobook of the classic selfhelp title while in the hospital, noting its focus on wealthy entrepreneurs and how it sparked her interest in affirmations.
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One of them was Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich, which is all about male millionaire entrepreneurs like Henry Ford in the 1920s.
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Mick explained that Think and Grow Rich, written by Napoleon Hill in 1937, became one of the topselling personaldevelopment books of all time, with estimates of around 500million copies sold.
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What I'm excited about and why we connected and reconnected is this thing called Think and Grow Rich. Right. This is a book written by Napoleon Hill in 1937... They've sold over... estimates somewhere around 500 million copies. I mean, it's a top five book of all time.
Asprey noted that Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich includes a chapter on sexual sublimation that is rarely discussed.
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You know who did? Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich. He has a whole chapter on sexual sublimation, but the world is so uptight that we won't talk about it.
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Asprey noted that Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich includes a chapter on sexual sublimation that is rarely discussed.
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You know who did? Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich. He has a whole chapter on sexual sublimation, but the world is so uptight that we won't talk about it.
In one episode the host cited the book as the source of the babystep principle, advising entrepreneurs to take small steps when starting out. In another episode a guest listed it among the classic personal‑development titles that shaped his early career. Both speakers highlighted its practical mindset guidance, indicating a strong endorsement.
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Vishen cited Napoleon Hill's book as the source of the babystep principle, saying Hill advised taking small steps when you don't know how to start your entrepreneurial journey.
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Napoleon Hill in his book, Think and Grow Rich, said, if you don't know how to start your entrepreneurial journey, if you don't know your path to riches, just guess. Take a baby step.
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Bob Burg mentioned Think and Grow Rich as another classic personaldevelopment book he read early in his career.
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And that that success manifested outwardly, but it really was what you put into your mind and took into your heart. So I started getting all the classics of personal development from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to Think and Grow Rich to The Magic of Thinking Big and PsychoCybernetics and As a Man Thinketh and Ogmandino's books...
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Dave highlighted the classic status of the book, noting mixed quality across its halves.
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The old classic is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Half the book is worthless.
The first half is pretty darn good.
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The classic selfhelp book was listed alongside other influential titles in the discussion of early reading recommendations.
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Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
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Hill's bestseller was listed alongside other personaldevelopment classics as a book the mentor urged the guest to read regularly.
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the classics, Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.
Ryan Blair highlighted the book as a foundational text his mentor gave him, noting it shaped his entrepreneurial path, while Heather Monahan referenced it as a timeless success classic. Both hosts presented it positively, emphasizing its lasting relevance for personal and business growth. The discussion conveyed strong endorsement of the book's principles.
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Ryan listed Think and Grow Rich as one of the foundational books his mentor provided, crediting it with influencing his entrepreneurial journey.
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He gave me Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale, Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man in Babylon, a bunch of Tony Robbins related material.
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Heather cited Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich as an example of a timeless success book.
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I just want you to know that whether it be Napoleon Hill's famous book, Think and Grow Rich, or there's these books going back, you know, a hundred years ago...
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He mentioned the classic selfhelp title as an example of a famous book about belief and success.
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whether it be Napoleon Hill's famous book thinking bro rich
The book was highlighted when Tim noted that he dedicates two hours each day to studying titles like this one to sharpen his mindset and business abilities. He referenced it alongside other influential works, indicating its importance in his personal development routine.
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Tim said he spends two hours a day studying books such as Think and Grow Rich to improve his mindset and business skills.
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So whether I'm reading Think and Grow Rich or Atomic Habits or I'm watching a Kobe Bryant interview when he was alive on YouTube, ... I study two hours a day.
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Stormy said she read Think and Grow Rich at age 18, going through the entire book from cover to cover.
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I read Think and Grow Rich at 18 from cover to cover.
The book was highlighted across several episodes for its unconventional principles such as sexual transmutation, the mirroring effect, and its emphasis on non‑traditional education, which listeners found valuable for personal and business growth. Hosts like Aaron Doughty, Stormy Wellington, Nikkolas Pena, Tommy Hayden, and Casey Adams each shared how it influenced their mindset, from motivating a teenage career change to guiding business strategies after an injury. Overall, the discussion conveyed strong endorsement of the title as a powerful personal‑development resource.
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The book is about the "mirroring effect" and how to use it to convince yourself of something, such as being sober.
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There's a Napoleon Hill, where they call it the mirroring effect. I don't know if you like heard of anything like that.
Yeah, so he talks about a guy, he was at a long story short, he was at a party and the host was really drunk and he watched the host go into his room and talk to himself for five minutes in the mirror, looking into his soul.
It was like, you fool, these people think you're drunk and you're sober as a ghost. Basically talked himself into being sober.
And Napoleon Hill said he saw him sober up just from staring in the mirror for five minutes and telling his cells, telling his atoms to be sober.
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Semen retention was mentioned as being one of the principles in the book, which was recommended to help with business success.
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If you read Think and Grow Rich like it's one of the principles in there and the big thing to making it past you know a week or a month is actually breath work and understanding how to actually control your breathing.
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It was mentioned as a personal development book that Casey picked up after an injury, which helped guide his initial business thinking and perspective.
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And those, the people that I ended up buying their books, the Napoleon Hills, those were initially my quote unquote mentors, especially in the business world and how I think about the world today.
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It was the first book she read cover to cover at 18, and it changed her life, making her realize she didn't need a high school diploma to be successful, and she learned about non-traditional education.
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I read Think and Grow Rich when I was 18.
Actually, I read Think and Grow Rich a Black Choice by Dennis Kimbrough and Napoleon Hill. So I read the black version of it.
That was my first book that I read cover to cover.
especially if you were told and all you heard was you got to graduate you got to the white the white fence the white house and the picket fence and and so I thought that I was gonna have to be a stripper or wait for somebody to take care of me because I didn't graduate but Think and Grow Rich made me realize that I didn't have to graduate from high school to be successful and that's when I learned the power of non-traditional education.
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It was mentioned that the book contains a chapter on sexual transmutation, which involves harnessing sexual energy to achieve desires. The speaker found this information valuable.
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But when I first read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, he has a whole chapter on sexual transmutation.
Andy Frisella referenced the title in several episodes, noting it as an older classic that demands concentration and contains long‑standing ideas about visualization and success, and a guest also listed it among their favorite reads. The overall tone was that it is a noteworthy reference point rather than a strongly promoted recommendation.
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Andy Frisella suggested reading older books, such as those by Napoleon Hill, to improve focus because their formal language requires more concentration to comprehend.
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So I read very slow, I concentrate and I really try to embed what is being communicated to me through the reading. Another thing that you can do too is read old books. Okay? So older books that are from like, you know, let's say Napoleon Hill or Dale Carnegie, things that were written nearly a hundred years ago about personal developments or anything, right? Maybe political books, whatever you want to read. And older things, because they're written in a more formal language and you actually have to focus and comprehend more than you can reading like, you know, today's way of speaking, which is garbage.
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The book's principles on visualization and the law of attraction were mentioned as a point of reference when discussing the power of manifestation and visualization. The host stated that the book's concepts had been discussed for hundreds of years.
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Listen, bro, they've been writing about this for hundreds of years. I'm not the first fucking person to ever talk about this. Like Napoleon Hill wrote fucking books about it.
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It was mentioned as a book that the speaker read a long time ago, implying it offered inspiration and insights on success.
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I remember Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill I read it a long time ago and I'm like fuck this guy is not even a real human Napoleon he died a long time ago
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It was mentioned as one of Nehemiah Davis's favorite books, although no specifics were provided about why.
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And of course, Think and Grow Rich. I like that one.
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