Loren Woirhaye 2008-10-23
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First off - I tell everyone who wants to make money with his
or her own business online to read this book. The reason is
because it's easy to find and contains solid principles
which most business beginners and salespeople are ignorant
of - or at least too intellectually lazy to remember and
apply.
Very few people actually bother to read the book. I
actually use this book as a litmus test for people I coach.
I tell them to read it before we do anything. Most of
them just slink away - their desire to make money online
is so feeble they cannot be bothered to spend a few
hours reading a PDF.
While the vast majority of people who actually read the
book will apply it weakly if at all - at least readers
have been exposed, many for the first time in their lives,
to the principles which successful people practice,
whether they have read the book or not.
Read it a couple of times. You can download it easily
enough. That's why I recommend it. Tell a fellow he
must pay money for it or go somewhere to get it and
he will do nothing - give it to him in a link and then
he has it and can decide whether he will read it or not.
Most folks are, in my experience, too lazy to bother.
The book is written with hypnotic flair, though some of
the early chapters are dull. It is populated by stories
of successful industrialists, who I guess were the sorts
of guys businesspeople admired in 1937. Today we'll find
some of the values of Think and Grow Rich sort of old-
fashioned.
The book's major thrust is the principle of autosuggestion,
which may have been a somewhat inventive idea in 1937.
It's just a theroy, so try it out by all means but just
understand that the book is 70 plus years old and we've
learned a lot about how we learn and change since then.
Personally I find the later stuff of Maxwell Maltz
and guys like Tony Robbins more relevant to us today -
but their books are under copyright and not to be shared
freely as this one is.
