Comments on: “Think and Grow Rich”? http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/ Thoughts, news, riffs and reviews by Dr. Joe Vitale ("Mr. Fire!") about marketing, publicity, selling, hypnosis, copywriting, books, fitness, metaphysics, "The Secret" and anything else he cares to comment on, including healing, humor, the Internet and yes, maybe even sex. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:15:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Tyrone glover http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-176671 Tyrone glover Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:42:25 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-176671 Can anyone tell me what nationally recognized person through the 50s to present day, attribute their success to the principles outlined within Think and Grow rich? I'm not questioning the process or method but rather just asking the question because am interested in finding examples. I've searched the web extensively and have found numerous sites on its power, but I haven't been able to find anyone who is accomplished, to provide an endorsement of the method. Thanks and take care. Tye Can anyone tell me what nationally recognized person through the 50s to present day, attribute their success to the principles outlined within Think and Grow rich? I’m not questioning the process or method but rather just asking the question because am interested in finding examples. I’ve searched the web extensively and have found numerous sites on its power, but I haven’t been able to find anyone who is accomplished, to provide an endorsement of the method. Thanks and take care. Tye

]]> By: Oliver Tausend http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-167785 Oliver Tausend Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:02:43 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-167785 Hi Joe, thanks for sharing your insights. Most people try to implement the principles taught - and fail, because they want to do it alone. It must be for a reason that Mr. Hill stresses the importance of a mastermind group over and over again in his book. Becoming rich is a team sports. It's about thinking, feeling and growing. Take care Oliver Hi Joe,

thanks for sharing your insights. Most people try to implement the principles taught – and fail, because they want to do it alone. It must be for a reason that Mr. Hill stresses the importance of a mastermind group over and over again in his book. Becoming rich is a team sports.

It’s about thinking, feeling and growing.

Take care

Oliver

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II-Phantom Bookshop http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-153867 John Anthony Miller II-Phantom Bookshop Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:26:32 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-153867 Joe- Interesting thoughts. I have thought these exact things you have mentioned above regarding perception and books found in boxes. Also, books as we know them, on paper, will cease to exist in 3-10 years. They will be electronic with links. Oh, paper books for collectors and signings for big name authors will still be present, but in one or two generations it will all change. I found your blog about "Capt. Ahab Syndrome" interesting-as did the Bradbury family. I hope you liked the "Moby Dick" DVD also. Like you, I give books away and related items away, when I think appropriate. I think your readers would find another "Ahab-like" monster extremely interesting- one "super egocentric sea-related character" (as the sea is "the big conscious unknown" of the mind--or to me the "unknown" spiritual self, yes?) just as "terrifying"-Capt. Wolf Larsen of "The Sea-Wolf"....this "Ahab -related syndrome" I would call "The Wolf Larsen Syndrome." Larsen is from Jack London's masterpiece "The Sea-Wolf." As a collector-reader of the great Jack London for years, London was (and still is to me) a paradoxical enigma of a man that folks might find very interesting. London, who died at 40, not from suicide, but from uremic poisoning and a heart attack. He wrote 50 books over a 17 year period. He is forgotten by many now, except for "The Call of The Wild" and writer of dog books-such as "White Fang." Quite the contrary, he wrote about time travel, astral projection, aliens, plagues wiping out civiliation, a Chinese invasion of the US, social conditions, the very very socially deprived and abuse of the poor masses of humanity and on and on. His real masterpiece is "The Sea-Wolf" --not "The Call of The Wild." This character of Capt. Larsen is worthy of a few words, a nightmare mad man who was also "learned" with racks of books by intellectuals, poets and scientists, all shelved on his true ship from hell. He created a world of social Darwinism and horror in his universe so unbearable, so terrible, that for himself that the only escape was death. (My mind also goes back to Ernest Miller Hemingway when I mention this, another genius...) All this kind of world perception and "collective thinking" can be paralleled to what is happening today in our society, as I look around. Many will not agree with me. Now, I am coming back to my good friend Ray Bradbury and his masterpiece "Fahrenheit 451" (of whom Dr. Werhner von Braun, the inventor of the V-2 Rocket, said of Ray Bradbury - he had it "all figured out way ahead of all of us"). "Fahrenheit 451" is a perfect parallel of what is happening today, "firemen" burning books...I could go on about this, but it is all in the book-just think forward a few years. We do attract our own miracles-I truly believe this. We need not be book burners, Ahabs or Larsens. Everything is LOVE. That is Ray Bradbury's mantra, as I have heard him say this over many many years. As another lovingly put "aside" comment from a forgotten author: "Books were once men." This one comes from George Barr McCutcheon-creator of the magical kingdom of "Graustark."---Peace, love and good karma, John. Joe-
Interesting thoughts. I have thought these exact things you have mentioned above regarding perception and books found in boxes. Also, books as we know them, on paper, will cease to exist in 3-10 years. They will be electronic with links. Oh, paper books for collectors and signings for big name authors will still be present, but in one or two generations it will all change. I found your blog about “Capt. Ahab Syndrome” interesting-as did the Bradbury family. I hope you liked the “Moby Dick” DVD also. Like you, I give books away and related items away, when I think appropriate. I think your readers would find another “Ahab-like” monster extremely interesting- one “super egocentric sea-related character” (as the sea is “the big conscious unknown” of the mind–or to me the “unknown” spiritual self, yes?) just as “terrifying”-Capt. Wolf Larsen of “The Sea-Wolf”….this “Ahab -related syndrome” I would call “The Wolf Larsen Syndrome.” Larsen is from Jack London’s masterpiece “The Sea-Wolf.” As a collector-reader of the great Jack London for years, London was (and still is to me) a paradoxical enigma of a man that folks might find very interesting. London, who died at 40, not from suicide, but from uremic poisoning and a heart attack. He wrote 50 books over a 17 year period. He is forgotten by many now, except for “The Call of The Wild” and writer of dog books-such as “White Fang.” Quite the contrary, he wrote about time travel, astral projection, aliens, plagues wiping out civiliation, a Chinese invasion of the US, social conditions, the very very socially deprived and abuse of the poor masses of humanity and on and on. His real masterpiece is “The Sea-Wolf” –not “The Call of The Wild.” This character of Capt. Larsen is worthy of a few words, a nightmare mad man who was also “learned” with racks of books by intellectuals, poets and scientists, all shelved on his true ship from hell. He created a world of social Darwinism and horror in his universe so unbearable, so terrible, that for himself that the only escape was death. (My mind also goes back to Ernest Miller Hemingway when I mention this, another genius…) All this kind of world perception and “collective thinking” can be paralleled to what is happening today in our society, as I look around. Many will not agree with me. Now, I am coming back to my good friend Ray Bradbury and his masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451″ (of whom Dr. Werhner von Braun, the inventor of the V-2 Rocket, said of Ray Bradbury – he had it “all figured out way ahead of all of us”). “Fahrenheit 451″ is a perfect parallel of what is happening today, “firemen” burning books…I could go on about this, but it is all in the book-just think forward a few years. We do attract our own miracles-I truly believe this. We need not be book burners, Ahabs or Larsens. Everything is LOVE. That is Ray Bradbury’s mantra, as I have heard him say this over many many years. As another lovingly put “aside” comment from a forgotten author: “Books were once men.” This one comes from George Barr McCutcheon-creator of the magical kingdom of “Graustark.”—Peace, love and good karma, John.

]]> By: Ian Paul Marshall http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-152907 Ian Paul Marshall Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:30:42 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-152907 I think you hit the nail on the head toward the end of your post when you said you actually learned how to achieve something when you implemented what you were reading. That's the key. Taking action. Getting out there and trying and learning as you go. Action creates clarity. It gives you the experience. And until we've experienced something we're never going to truly know it. Love your stuff Joe. I think you hit the nail on the head toward the end of your post when you said you actually learned how to achieve something when you implemented what you were reading.

That’s the key.

Taking action. Getting out there and trying and learning as you go.

Action creates clarity. It gives you the experience. And until we’ve experienced something we’re never going to truly know it.

Love your stuff Joe.

]]> By: Paulo Pizzato http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-150648 Paulo Pizzato Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:32:24 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-150648 Dear Joe Vitale, I would like to congratulate you on your way of living, abundant living, just the way suggested by Mr. Wattles about a century ago. I am focused on this right now, and soon, very soon, I would be very delighted to meet you. Paulo Pizzato Airline Captain, seeking higher heights. Dear Joe Vitale,
I would like to congratulate you on your way of living, abundant living, just the way suggested by Mr. Wattles about a century ago. I am focused on this right now, and soon, very soon, I would be very delighted to meet you.
Paulo Pizzato
Airline Captain, seeking higher heights.

]]> By: Nick BARON http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-150132 Nick BARON Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:57:10 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-150132 I loved the book, though it isn’t until I read it 3 times and used videos made about the book, to fully comprehend its principles, and fully apply them, daily. Check http://www.thesecretvideos.tv to fully understand the science of Thing and Grow Rich. Hill is an amazing man indeed! Cheers, Nick I loved the book, though it isn’t until I read it 3 times and used videos made about the book, to fully comprehend its principles, and fully apply them, daily.

Check http://www.thesecretvideos.tv to fully understand the science of Thing and Grow Rich.

Hill is an amazing man indeed!

Cheers, Nick

]]> By: Juddha Fitzgerald http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-149889 Juddha Fitzgerald Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:06:09 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-149889 This is an awesome webpage!!! Good to see other people who are truly followers of Napoleon Hill's work. This is one of the VERY FEW books that promises to help you determine Who you want to become? What it is you want to do? When it‘s going to happen? Why THE MISSION IS POSSIBLE? And how you’re going to attain it? All through the aid and application of the “unknown and unused knowledge and power” they termed the “Carnegie Secret.” 1. Ready-Think 2. Get Set-Grow 3. Go-Get Rich Let life come and live generously, Host & Philosopher Juddha Shaddai Fitzgerald www.blogtalkradio.com/juddha-fitzgerald This is an awesome webpage!!! Good to see other people who are truly followers of Napoleon Hill’s work.
This is one of the VERY FEW books that promises to help you determine Who you want to become? What it is you want to do? When it‘s going to happen? Why THE MISSION IS POSSIBLE? And how you’re going to attain it? All through the aid and application of the “unknown and unused knowledge and power” they termed the “Carnegie Secret.”

1. Ready-Think 2. Get Set-Grow 3. Go-Get Rich

Let life come and live generously,
Host & Philosopher
Juddha Shaddai Fitzgerald
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juddha-fitzgerald

]]> By: Juddha Fitzgerald http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-149661 Juddha Fitzgerald Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:16:36 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-149661 Joe Vitale's "Attract Money Now" is an awesome book! He knows his stuff and definitely correct about guidance. I recently put together a podcast, "The teachings of Think and Grow Rich" to help give people that guidance. Thanks Joe! Let life come and Live generously, Host and Philosopher Juddha Fitzgerald http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juddha-fitzgerald Joe Vitale’s “Attract Money Now” is an awesome book! He knows his stuff and definitely correct about guidance. I recently put together a podcast, “The teachings of Think and Grow Rich” to help give people that guidance. Thanks Joe!

Let life come and Live generously,
Host and Philosopher
Juddha Fitzgerald
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juddha-fitzgerald

]]> By: staci http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-149625 staci Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:24:08 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-149625 Joe, I hear ABC is finally airing their interview with you tomorrow (Tuesday, June 29) in prime time! I can't wait to see you and your good works finally get the attention they are due! Joe,

I hear ABC is finally airing their interview with you tomorrow (Tuesday, June 29) in prime time! I can’t wait to see you and your good works finally get the attention they are due!

]]> By: Sal Caruso http://blog.mrfire.com/think-and-grow-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-149200 Sal Caruso Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:28:03 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2575#comment-149200 I'm thinking of a role in this move! I’m thinking of a role in this move!

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