During my morning and evening walks I am listening to a success classic called “Think and Grow Rich”. It was first published in 1937 after N. Hill interviewed over 25,000 business professionals over 20 years.
Some of it is dated. Some of it is funny, how some things never change. Most of it is very insightful. (The full book can be downloaded for free.)
Here is a part of a chapter I listened to this morning (minus the description of each cause). I don’t agree with all of it, but it is thought provoking.
THE THIRTY MAJOR CAUSES OF FAILURE
1. Unfavorable hereditary background
2. Lack of a well-defined purpose in life.
3. Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
4. Insufficient education
5. Lack of self-discipline
6. Ill health
7. Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood
8. Procrastination
9. Lack of persistence
10. Negative personality
11. Lack of controlled sexual urge
12. Uncontrolled desire of “something for nothing”
13. Lack of a well-defined power of decision
14. One or more of the six basic fears (poverty, criticism, ill health, lose of love of someone, old age, and death)
15. Wrong selection of mate in marriage
16. Over-caution
17. Wrong selection of associates in business
18. Superstition and prejudice
19. Wrong selection of a vocation
20. Lack of concentration of effort
21. The habit of indiscriminate spending
22. Lack of enthusiasm
23. Intolerance
24. Intemperance
25. Inability to cooperate with others
26. Possession of power that was not acquired through self effort
27. Intentional dishonesty
28. Egotism and vanity
29. Guessing instead of thinking
30. Lack of capital

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