Socien's Blog

I love a statement from Napoleon Hill, “More gold has been mined from the thought of man than has been ever taken from earth.” The thought is the core—an excel every advance at the individual level revolves. Advances at human level makes a civilisation. It is no accident that the rise of the Hellenistic World happened at a time the Greek thought was on the rise. Unlike the Ancient Near Eastern civilisations known in the history before their rise, the Greek thought were now being written on an invention from Egypt know as papyrus than on clay tablets. The papyrus made it easier to preserve more thoughts.

The thought alone was not enough to make room for the rise of these civilisations. Its preservation and the ease in doing so, a promoting political leadership were also of paramount importance. In Sub-Saharan Africa where inscription of characters was rare to non-existent we see no civilisations of such magnitude and influence rising at this particular time and throughout the history of civilisation as well. Professor S. I. Hayakawa wrote, “Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything unless you can state it in writing.”

On thought as core, I am developing another blog. I hope it will be my greatest work before I slip into non-existence. But I am consulting Hill’s perspective to settle some issues that may bind an able individual from achieving what’s in his mission. The mission for each individual takes form from what seems to be hollows of nothingness. But there is always an input, a part that gives one a mission, lifts him to forge and tinker on it until there is a tangible result. Failure is one such input.

Failure is not always a benefit before the benefit part of failure is activated. In most cases failure brings total collapse to the minds of individuals who fail, and curse them to live the rest of their lives with no lessons or the urge to try again. How can failure be such cruel?  Now, when you fail and find yourself with no benefit of failure but a collapsed mine [sic] broken down by the reality, your mind will not be a gold mine anymore. It can only trap you under debris of regret, depression and anger—the likes of which you were never designed to escape.

I love this mine of treasures called the mind. It does not let you reach for the gold before you face failure, humiliation, adversity and all those analects from the book of the troubles of man. The mine we call the mind selects a few to promote to success among many. You might say it’s impartial in its selection, an unfair master. But the mind is only a servant. It listens when you command it to lift you up. It listens when you take it down with you. E. Nightingle had to remind us of the travesty, “All of us are self made. Only the successful will admit it.” Nightingle’s is right because many knock down their mines’ supporting structures of patience, hope and courage and allow themselves to be doomed to stay average.

This servant we call the mind has the limited ability to create new things. It mostly expand the existing ones that you write boldly in its tunnels. You give it sorrow it will expand. Hope it will turn into reality and ambition is rendered into a speedy takeoff. With this in mind, Ayu Rand observed, “Wealth is the product of man’s ability to think.” A supporting insight from Claude M. Bristol is, “Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions and all achievement.”

Those who are successful at mining the mine we call mind, give it room to expand. The chances of joining a company as its worker and raise to become its CEO are low. Those who reap a reap massive profits out of it start own companies. That way they have high chances to become a CEO. But they will have to mine more—be willing to take more blows and failure, learn from it. The mind is the cheapest gold mine you can find. Exploration is done in-house. The tools for a successful exploration are grouped under a file “positivity”. The best operator of such tools is a game changing mindset—a mindset that enlarges room for expansion.

Those who get massive treasures out of their minds do not choose easy. If trimming off weight means stretching muscles beyond their limits, they go for it. If achieving goals happen through starving and going through fire, they let it be. Cheaper and easy solutions are not in their mind-mining manual. They choose hard now for easy later, for advantageous this approach is. It doesn’t reserve problems to burden the mind later. It creates a solution now thereby saving the minds from future pressures and stresses.

Don’t forget to write down details of things happening in your life if you have the chance. Recording your earnings and expenses will develop your consciousness to your financial landscape than retreating behind a statement, “I don’t have a job yet.” Most of us wait until they are employed to know that annually they are earning a certain income multiplied by twelve.