In Pursuit of Wisdom

I finished  Think and Grow Rich  by Napoleon Hill yesterday. This is arguably one of the most popular personal development books of all time. In this book, Napoleon emphasizes that success comes to those who are success conscious. He lays out 13 principles to get rich which can also be used for any other goal than money. Burning Desire  - Wishing alone won't bring money. fix your mind on the exact amount of money you desire determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money establish a date you want it to achieve create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and putting into action write out the exact amount of money you intend to acquire and what you are willing to give in return for it read our your statement out loud twice daily Faith  - When you truly have faith in a desire and believe that it will come true, it starts manifesting its own physical self. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Auto-s...

Stanford University Psychologist  Carol Dweck tells us about the power of mindset in this fascinating book. She figured that people use one of two basic mindsets in their lives - fixed mindset and growth mindset. People with fixed mindset believe the abilities are largely fixed while people with growth believe that abilities can largely be developed with effort over time. If you think your capabilities are coded genetically and you can only vary to a certain degrees no matter what you try, you are applying a fixed mindset. On the other hand if you see that it's not just your gene but your environment, your overall context and how you utilize that will determine where you will end up, you are applying a growth mindset. Do you remember the Denim aftershave ad where it says  for men who don't have to try too hard ? This is a perfect example of fixed mindset. People with fixed mindset put themselves into an imagined box and think that is the overall boundary within which ...