"Harnessing the Power of Thought: How Obsessive Desire, Purpose, and Persistence Drive Success"
What Do You Want Most?
Is it Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness?
General Introduction: The Man Who “Thought” His Way Into Partnership with Thomas A. Edison
Thoughts are powerful when backed by obsessive desire, purpose, and persistence
Edwin C. Barnes
Desired deeply to work with Edison as a business associate
Didn’t have money to pay the train to New Jersey and didn’t know Edison
He did not let this affect him: he went to his laboratory anyways
Explanation of scenario with quote: when there is a will, there’s a way
Determined to get what he wanted + ready to give up everything → sure to win
He worked at the Edison offices doing unimportant work but over time the desire was burning brighter to be his business associate
Definite purpose + standing by that purpose no matter what = burning obsession
Not all opportunities come in the way one might think
Can be disguised as misfortune or defeat
Edison gave him the opportunity to sell the Edison Dictating Machine because Barnes KNEW he could
Sold it successfully and got a contract from Edison to continue selling
Thoughts can be transformed into the physical world
Faith +initiative + the will to win → recipe for success
Three Feet from Gold
Common cause of failure: quitting prematurely from temporary defeat
Uncle of R.U Darby
Went to the West to discover gold → insatiable desire → worked hard —> found gold → needed to drill it with machine to extract it → couldn’t find it anymore and they decided to quit → sold the equipment to a junk man that found the gold three feet deeper than they were drilling and became a multi millionaire
Darby learned to never give up so quickly and applied this to his new job in insurance → makes a million in life insurance a year
Have “stickability”, not “quitability”
Success is found just a step or two beyond failure and defeat → KEEP GOING AND NEVER GIVE UP
A Fifty Cent Lesson in Persistence
“No does not necessarily mean no” (Hill, 37).
Command your voice and command your power
Like the little African American girl did to Darby’s uncle when she refused to leave without him giving her mama the 50 cents he owed her
Abundance and riches begin with a state of mind and purpose
Man is too familiar with the word “impossible”
In order to be successful, you must stake everything on that success
Success conscious leads to success, failure conscious leads to failure
Refrain from measuring or judging people and things by your own biases and beliefs
If you think it’s not possible, it won’t be
If you think it is possible, it will be
Henry Ford
Became successful for his undying desire to make a eight cylinder gas engine in one piece
He knew what he wanted and he encouraged the engineers to work on it until they figured it out → over a year later the idea was discovered and executed
You Are “the Master of Your Fate, the Captain of Your Soul,” because…
Humans have the power to control their thoughts
Our lives adapt and are influenced by the thoughts we think
Brains are magnet
Book: Think And Grow Rich Chapter 1
Book: THINK AND GROW RICH CHAPTER 1
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