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- 0:00Napoleon Hill. The master key to success. The first principle definiteness of purpose.
- 0:07How do you do. I'm very happy to have this personal visit with
- 0:11you. Won't you be seated please? And now may I request that you
- 0:16forget all your problems and just relax while I bring you the master key,
- 0:20with which you may unlock the door to any opportunity that your mind can conceive.
- 0:25The Master Key consists of seventeen principles, the first of which is definiteness
- 0:30of purpose. Right here at the beginning of our visit, I am going
- 0:34to make you a promise. If you will decide definitely what you want most
- 0:38during your entire lifetime and write it down on paper so I can read it,
- 0:42I will give you the master key with which you may open the door
- 0:45to the attainment of your desires, whatever they may be. The exact moments
- 0:50when I will deliver this master key to you will depend entirely upon when you
- 0:54are ready to receive it. This is the first of thirteen messages that I
- 0:58will deliver to you. In each message, I will describe the master key
- 1:02in terms that you will understand if you are ready to understand. And now
- 1:07I shall give you the first cue as to the nature of the great Master
- 1:10Key, which has been responsible for all the great successes in every calling in
- 1:15every part of the world. Please listen carefully to what I have to say,
- 1:19because you may discover the secret of the master key in this first visit.
- 1:23You may get your first cue as to the nature of the great Master
- 1:26Key when I tell you that psychologists have discovered a natural law which is the
- 1:32very foundation of all personal successes. And I can describe it to you in
- 1:37one short sentence so you can understand it. Whatever the mind can conceive and
- 1:42believe the mind can achieve. Isn't that a profound statement. You will notice
- 1:48that it says nothing about the need for education, but simply that whatever your
- 1:53mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Now, if you
- 1:57want evidence that the mind can achieve whatever the mind can conceive without the benefit
- 2:02of formal education, you only have to remember that Thomas Edison conceive the idea
- 2:07of becoming an inventor and live to become the world's greatest scientists in the field
- 2:12of invention with only three months of common school education. When I first heard
- 2:16Andrew Carnegie describe this natural law, which makes it possible for you and I
- 2:22and everyone else to write his own price tag in life and attain it.
- 2:24I became so enthused over it that I began the search for the power back
- 2:29of it, and my curiosity let me finally to the discovery of the master
- 2:34key, which I shall reveal to you if you are ready to receive it.
- 2:38My search lead me to the study of the spiritual forces with which all
- 2:42of us are blessed, and it was in this field that I came upon
- 2:45a clue which has enabled me to help millions of people to find their earthly
- 2:47destinies. I want to describe my discovery and the simplest terms possible, because
- 2:53it will reveal to you why it is true that whatever the mind can conceive
- 2:58and believe, the mind can achieve, regardless of how many times you may
- 3:01have failed in the past, or how lofty or aims and hopes may be.
- 3:06I caught my first leading glimpse of the profound law which provides the means
- 3:09by which we may choose our own purpose in life and attain it. While
- 3:14I was being coached by Andrew Carnegie during the organization of the Science of Success
- 3:17Philosophy. I had just finished telling mister Carnegie that I feared he had chosen
- 3:23the wrong person to give the world the first practical philosophy of personal success because
- 3:28of my youth, my lack of education, and my lack of finances.
- 3:32Well, at this point, mister Carnegie delivered a lecture that I shall never
- 3:36forget because it changed my entire life and paved the way for my helping to
- 3:39change the lives of millions of people, some of them not yet born.
- 3:44Let me call your attention to a great power which is under your control,
- 3:47said mister Carnegie, a power which is greater than poverty, greater than the
- 3:53lack of education, greater than all of your fears and superstitions combined. It
- 3:58is the power to take possession of your own mind and directed to whatever aims
- 4:01you may desire. This profound power, mister Carnegie continued, is the gift
- 4:06of the Creator, and it must have been considered the greatest of all of
- 4:10his gifts to man, because it is the only thing over which man has
- 4:14the complete and unchallengeable right of control and direction. When you speak of your
- 4:18poverty in lack of education, mister Carnegie explained, you are simply directing your
- 4:23mind power to attract these undesirable circumstances, because it is true that whatever your
- 4:29mind feeds upon, your mind attracts to you. Now you see why it
- 4:33is important that you recognize that all success begins with definiteness of purpose, with
- 4:39a clear picture in your mind of precisely what you want from life. Then
- 4:43mister Carnegie continued his speech with a description of a great universal truth which made
- 4:47such an impact upon my mind that I began then and there to give myself
- 4:51a new outlook on life and set up for myself a goal so far above
- 4:56my previous achievements that it shocked my friends and relatives when they heard about it.
- 5:00Everyone said, mister Carnegie comes to the earth plane blest with the privilege
- 5:05of controlling his mind power and directing it to whatever aims he may choose.
- 5:11But he continued, everyone brings over with him at birth the equivalent of two
- 5:15sealed envelopes, one of which is clearly labeled the riches you may enjoy if
- 5:19you take possession of your mind and direct it to aims of your own choice,
- 5:25and the other is labeled the penalties you must pay if you neglect to
- 5:30take possession of your mind and direct it. And now let me reveal to
- 5:33you, said mister Carnegie, the contents of those to see envelopes. In
- 5:39the one labeled riches, is this list of blessings one sound health, two
- 5:46peace of mind free, a labor of love of your own choice for freedom
- 5:53from fear and worry, five, a positive mental attitude, six material aial
- 6:00riches of your own choice and quantity. In the sealed envelope labeled penalties,
- 6:04mister Carnegie continued, is this list of the prices one must pay for neglecting
- 6:10to take possession of his own mind. One ill health, two fear and
- 6:15worry free, indecision and doubt, for frustration and discouragement throughout life, five
- 6:25poverty and want. Six and a whole flock of evils consisting of envy,
- 6:30greed, jealousy, anger, hatred, and superstition. Now my mission in
- 6:35life is to help you and everyone who needs my help to open up and
- 6:40use the contents of the sealed envelope labeled riches, and the starting point from
- 6:45which you must take off if you wish to write your own ticket from here
- 6:48on out for the remainder of your lives, I will describe for you in
- 6:51these simple instructions. First, procure a neat pocket sized notebook or something on
- 6:58the order of this one loose leave affair, and on page one, write
- 7:02down a clear description of your major desire in life, the one circumstance or
- 7:06position or thing which you will be willing to accept as your idea of success.
- 7:13And remember before you begin writing that your online limitations are those which you
- 7:16set up in your own mind or permit others to set up for you.
- 7:21Second, on page two of your notebook, write down a clear statement of
- 7:26precisely what you intend to give in return for that which you desire from life,
- 7:30and then start and write where you stand now to begin giving. Third,
- 7:36memorize both of your statements what you desire from life and what you intend
- 7:41to give in return for it, and repeat them at least a dozen times
- 7:44daily, and always end your statements with this expression of gratitude for the blessings
- 7:48with which you were gifted at birth. I ask not owe divine providence for
- 7:55more riches, but more wisdom with which to accept and use wisely the riches
- 8:00have received at birth, in the form of the power to control and direct
- 8:03my mind to whatever aims I desire. If you are not too successful or
- 8:07self satisfied to accept and express this profound prayer, if you accept it and
- 8:11express it in the same spirit of humble sincerity in which I pass it on
- 8:15to you, anew and a better world will reveal itself to you, a
- 8:18world in which you will see reflected the circumstances and the things which you yourself
- 8:24have created. In my next visit, I will give you a description of
- 8:28the second principle of success, through the application of which you may make use
- 8:31of the education and experience of other people and get the necessary help you may
- 8:35need in attaining your definite major purpose in life. And now let me close
- 8:41this our first visit with my favorite expression of gratitude, O Divine Providence,
- 8:46I ask not for more riches, but more wisdom with which to make wiser
- 8:50use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to
- 8:54control and direct my own mind to whatever aims I desire.