Napoleon Hill’s “The Path to Personal Power"

 

This is Napoleon Hill’s most ignored Secret to Success

 

Napoleon Hill’s “The Path to Personal Power”

 

Napoleon Hill’s “The Path to Personal Power” focuses on one of the most neglected steps in the life coach’s famous program of success — and one that he personally described as critical to the workability of his overall approach: the formation of a Master Mind Group.

In his 1937 “Think and Grow Rich”, Hill defined the Master Mind (which he always capitalized) as: “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

In plain terms, Hill’s Master Mind group is, quite simply, a support group or fellowship consisting of two or more members (but usually no more than seven to keep things wieldy), which meets at regular intervals of at least once a week to give support and advice to members on their individual goals. Depending on the nature of the group, members may also offer meditation, prayers, and mental visualization for one another’s goals during the week.

At its heart, the Master Mind is a coordinated effort to explore and support one another’s plans, purposes, and needs. Hill believed that when several people regularly meet in a spirit of community and mutual support—there can be no divisiveness in the Master Mind—it will level-up the creativity, intuition, and mental faculties of each participant. For this reason, you must select the members of your Master Mind group carefully—the key factors are personal chemistry and cooperation. Divisiveness, political arguments (always keep politics at bay), squabbling, and discursive aims will deplete the functioning of Master Mind.

I once described Think and Grow Rich in a single sentence, which could encompass all of Hill’s work: “Emotionalized thought directed toward one passionately held aim—aided by organized planning and the Master Mind—is the root of all accomplishment.” This gives you an idea of how central the Master Mind concept is in Hill’s system.

“Great power,” he concluded of the Master Mind, “can be accumulated through no other principle.”