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Outwitting the Devil - Week 1
This episode marks the beginning of our Outwitting the Devil series. This series will, hopefully, help us all make a switch of a new kind. Instead of simply focusing on introducing new ideas and concepts, we will be taking some time to work on something that affects us all at our core: our very own habits and behaviors. This will be an opportunity for us all to apply many of the ideas we have studied over time, including many of the ideas on The Switch. The skills we will practice during these next few weeks have the potential to transform each of our lives permanently.
We begin our series based on Napoleon Hill’s Outwitting the Devil by talking about the book and getting an overview of the ideas we’ll be working with. This will be the only week in which we’ll primarily discuss chapters, sections, passages, etc. in a systematic way. For the rest of this series, you’re welcome to continue reading or re-reading the book as you like, but it may be more important to focus on the exercises and extra reading.
Week 1 Exercise: Inspectional/pre-reading OWD. Go through chapter headers, summaries, articles, anything you can to get the whole picture of the book. If you are someone that can read the book all in one go, read it this week without stopping to re-read or take notes. Otherwise, find a summary of the whole book and read that. Get in as many wholes as possible. If it’s too big, look for a less-dense whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outwitting_the_Devil
https://fourminutebooks.com/outwitting-the-devil-summary/
https://blog.12min.com/outwitting-the-devil-pdf-summary/
https://youtu.be/E4AZKVmgLQc
Finally, come up with some questions about applying these ideas to your life.
“Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale had never been published (until 2010 — 72 years later!), considered too controversial by his family and friends. Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed.”
The topics we will cover over the next 11 weeks:
"Do your own thinking on all occasions. The fact that human beings are given complete control over nothing save the power to think their own thoughts is laden with significance."
"Decide definitely what you want from life; then create a plan for attaining it and be willing to sacrifice everything else, if necessary, rather than accept permanent defeat."
"Analyze temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the seed of an equivalent advantage."
"Be willing to render useful service equivalent to the value of all material things you demand of life, and render the service first."
"Recognize that your brain is a receiving set that can be attuned to receive communications from the universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence, to help you transmute your desires into their physical equivalent."
"Recognize that your greatest asset is time, the only thing which you own outright, and the one thing which can be shaped into whatever material things you want. Budget your time so none of it is wasted."
"Recognize the truth that fear generally is a filler with which the Devil occupies the unused portion of your mind. It is only a state of mind which you can control by filling the space it occupies with faith in your ability to make life provide you with whatever you demand of it."
"When you pray, do not beg! Demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly that, with no substitutes."
"Recognize that life is a cruel taskmaster and that either you matter or it masters you. There is no half-way or compromising point. Never accept from life anything you do not want. If that which you do not want is temporarily forced upon you, you can refuse, in your own mind, to accept it and it will make way for the thing you do want."
"Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon."
Final: "Be definite in everything you do and never leave unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions on all subjects."
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By MojoFilter MediaThis episode marks the beginning of our Outwitting the Devil series. This series will, hopefully, help us all make a switch of a new kind. Instead of simply focusing on introducing new ideas and concepts, we will be taking some time to work on something that affects us all at our core: our very own habits and behaviors. This will be an opportunity for us all to apply many of the ideas we have studied over time, including many of the ideas on The Switch. The skills we will practice during these next few weeks have the potential to transform each of our lives permanently.
We begin our series based on Napoleon Hill’s Outwitting the Devil by talking about the book and getting an overview of the ideas we’ll be working with. This will be the only week in which we’ll primarily discuss chapters, sections, passages, etc. in a systematic way. For the rest of this series, you’re welcome to continue reading or re-reading the book as you like, but it may be more important to focus on the exercises and extra reading.
Week 1 Exercise: Inspectional/pre-reading OWD. Go through chapter headers, summaries, articles, anything you can to get the whole picture of the book. If you are someone that can read the book all in one go, read it this week without stopping to re-read or take notes. Otherwise, find a summary of the whole book and read that. Get in as many wholes as possible. If it’s too big, look for a less-dense whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outwitting_the_Devil
https://fourminutebooks.com/outwitting-the-devil-summary/
https://blog.12min.com/outwitting-the-devil-pdf-summary/
https://youtu.be/E4AZKVmgLQc
Finally, come up with some questions about applying these ideas to your life.
“Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale had never been published (until 2010 — 72 years later!), considered too controversial by his family and friends. Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed.”
The topics we will cover over the next 11 weeks:
"Do your own thinking on all occasions. The fact that human beings are given complete control over nothing save the power to think their own thoughts is laden with significance."
"Decide definitely what you want from life; then create a plan for attaining it and be willing to sacrifice everything else, if necessary, rather than accept permanent defeat."
"Analyze temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the seed of an equivalent advantage."
"Be willing to render useful service equivalent to the value of all material things you demand of life, and render the service first."
"Recognize that your brain is a receiving set that can be attuned to receive communications from the universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence, to help you transmute your desires into their physical equivalent."
"Recognize that your greatest asset is time, the only thing which you own outright, and the one thing which can be shaped into whatever material things you want. Budget your time so none of it is wasted."
"Recognize the truth that fear generally is a filler with which the Devil occupies the unused portion of your mind. It is only a state of mind which you can control by filling the space it occupies with faith in your ability to make life provide you with whatever you demand of it."
"When you pray, do not beg! Demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly that, with no substitutes."
"Recognize that life is a cruel taskmaster and that either you matter or it masters you. There is no half-way or compromising point. Never accept from life anything you do not want. If that which you do not want is temporarily forced upon you, you can refuse, in your own mind, to accept it and it will make way for the thing you do want."
"Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon."
Final: "Be definite in everything you do and never leave unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions on all subjects."