I was reading about Napoleon Hill today. One of his most “copied’ writings was a short writing on tolerance. It isn’t just about race it is about day to day living with others. Instead of getting annoyed about what someone is doing, step in their shoes and see why they may be doing what they are doing. Or, better yet, let it go. Life is too short to concentrate on the opposites of someone. Look for what brings them into your world and even if you don’t agree with what it is which annoys you perhaps just not focusing on that will help you get through your day a little better.
Why am I bringing all this up? Well Boss 2 paces when he is on his phone. He paces here and there and back there again. It aggravates me. Then I thought about Napoleon Hill and wondered if Boss 2 does this because of something negative from his childhood and it is how he copes. I am just throwing that out. It probably isn’t true but let’s just say it is for example only. I would then think hurray for him for learning pacing as a coping skill. With me thinking like this, I have empathy instead of hostility towards him. Wouldn’t Napoleon be proud? I am.
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Boss 2 sounds a bit ADHD. Pacing probably is how he copes. You know, maybe he is distracted easily and cannot finish tasks on time and cannot help but explain the same thing over and over and he talks a lot...
I enjoyed reading your blog today, and it occurs to me that you might be interested to learn that a new edition of Napoleon Hill's classic book "Think and Grow Rich" has been published.
Its title is "Think and Grow Rich!" (subtitled) "The Original Version, Restored and Revised." I am the editor/annotator of this new 412-page edition, which is really an homage to Dr. Hill. (For several years I was the editor-in-chief of "Think & Grow Rich Newsletter.")
What I have done is this: to restore Dr. Hill's book to its original manuscript content (it was first published in 1937, but was abridged in 1960), annotate it with more than 50 pages of endnotes (most of the persons and events he discusses are generally unknown to readers today), index it thoroughly, add an appendix with a wealth of additional information about Dr. Hill and his work, and revise the book in ways to help remove certain "impediments" to reading the book today (language that today would be considered obsolete, sexist or racist). None of these things had previously been done with TGR.
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The book is available on all the Amazon websites and most other online sellers, it can be ordered by any bookstore, and it will start appearing in bookstores soon.
Our edition of TGR! is superior in every way to other versions on the market. It is a trade paperback, not a pocket-size mass market paperback. It is 412 pages versus 256+ (depending on the edition). It looks better, feels better, reads better than any other version. It is fast becoming the "version of choice" among Napoleon Hill devotees and other students of success and high achievement.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Ross Cornwell, Editor
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