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Informationen zum Autor Napoleon Hill Klappentext Everything you desire is within your reach, if you learn to tap the miraculous power that lies within your own personality. Success belongs to those lucky people who are blessed with successful personalities. With these outstanding human beings, success is a daily miracle, a way of life, a habit. Businesspeople, preachers, doctors, soldiers, artists-people in every walk of life-are learning to achieve their goals, to overcome all obstacles to their success, to live the life they want, through the miraculous power of the successful personality. You can be one of these people. Napoleon Hill, world-famous author, associate of great and successful people from Andrew Carnegie to Franklin D. Roosevelt, lifelong teacher of the open secrets of success, can give you this knowledge and power.Prologue Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s greatest essay, “Compensation,” confirms this truth in elaborate detail; and I have just passed through an experience that not only confirms it but has provided the means by which I may help millions of people convert physical pain into a constructive interlude of great benefit to themselves. I was sitting in a dentist’s chair in Los Angeles, California, waiting for him to extract the last nine of my teeth, preparatory to fitting temporary dentures. My dentist had anesthetized both my upper and lower jaws and was waiting, as I thought, for the anesthetic to take effect. Every minute or so he inserted an instrument into my mouth and appeared to be examining my gums. After this had been going on for a while, I asked, “Doctor, aren’t you about ready to begin pulling my teeth?” With a look of astonishment on his face, he replied, “What do you mean by that question? I have them all out but three. There they are, on the table in front of you.” I looked, and sure enough, six of my teeth had been extracted without my knowing the operation was going on. Then followed a conversation between my dentist and myself which yielded to me the “seed of an equivalent benefit” as compensation for the dental surgery I had undergone. It may well benefit millions of people who will read my story and take advantage of the lesson it affords when they visit their dentists. That “seed” consisted in the plan and purpose of this volume, which were inspired by that conversation. As the last three teeth had been extracted my dentist inquired, “Where were you while I was pulling six of your teeth?” “Out at Radio Station KFWB,” I replied, “rehearsing my next Sunday broadcast.” “Well,” my dentist exclaimed, “I have been practicing dentistry for thirty years, but I have never before had a patient sit in my chair and have teeth extracted without knowing it. How in the world could you do it?” “That was easy enough,” I answered. “I conditioned my mind for this operation before you started it. Part of that conditioning consisted of my complete disassociation from it, by concentrating my mind on something pleasant and far removed from the operation itself.” “Man alive!” returned my dentist. “If you know how to teach others to condition their minds for dental work, so as to take the fear out of dentistry, and you will publish your formula in a book, the dentists of this country will help you sell a million copies within a year.” “Before I left my dentist’s office that day I had planned this volume and outlined the entire method by which I had converted the fear of dentistry into a magnificent interlude which may bring to millions of people the formula for mastery of physical pain. A strange feature of this formula is that it is based upon the same method by which I have helped millions of people condition th...
