The Russell Brunson Show - (Book) Magic Ladder of Success - Napoleon Hill

Episode Date: December 2, 2022

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Hey, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. Today, I'm gonna be talking about The Magic Ladder of Success. This is a book that was written by Napoleon Hill in 1912. Wait, it's 1912, I'm pretty sure. That's what I said before. Yes, no, I lied.

In 1921, Napoleon Hill wrote this book called The Magic Ladder of Success. I actually bought this copy of the book on eBay for $10,000 because it is rare. It's the only copy I've ever seen. And so I'm bringing it today to you guys on this podcast episode. We're gonna go over the 16 rungs

of The Magic Ladder of Success Napoleon Hill wrote about in 1921. I think you guys can get a lot of value from this. Even if you just master one or two or three of these rungs, it'll help you get closer to the goals that you are trying to achieve, whether it be in business, sports, relationships, whatever it is you're trying to be successful in.

I hope this episode is going to help you to start taking these principles from Napoleon Hill and weaving them into your mind to help you be more successful in all areas of your life. Okay, a couple other things. For this episode, I want you guys to make an intention before you start listening to it or watching it of just looking at like the thing that you're trying to achieve. Okay. You're gonna learn this. The very first rung of success is like your definite aim. Like what is the thing you want? If you don't have that yet, I want to make sure you sit down

and you figure it out. In fact, the very end of this book, the very last thing he says in here, which is so cool, uh, is going to, is going to be what I'm going to lead with. So this is the intention of what you guys have. He says, and again, this is right for the end of the book, right before he goes to the ad promoting his magazine, he says, may not be a good plan if you finish your work of this book by writing out your definite aim and the plan by which you expect to attain it. Okay. So the big key is like on the ladder, all you guys want success in something. What is your definite aim? Okay. So if you get one thing from this whole entire episode is like, what is the thing you want?

Okay, I don't care what it is for you. Some of you guys, it's to win a two comic club award. Some of you guys like you want to grow a business. You want to raise money for a nonprofit. You want to make money. You want to lose money. You want to, no, I'm guessing you don't want to lose money, but you want to lose weight.

Whatever your thing is, like what is your definite aim? What's the thing you want and what's the plan you have to get it? And then after you have that plan thought through, then I want you to take it through these rungs of the ladder of success to see what things you're missing. Because my guess is if you're not there yet, there's one or two or five or 12 things that you're not doing right yet, right? If you're aware of it now, now that we're aware of it, you can make those changes, those tweaks you need to actually be successful. So again, this episode, we're going to go deep

into the magic ladder of success, walk through all the principles, and I want you to look at what things you're missing, what things you need to tweak and change so you can actually get the goal that you are looking for. All right, this episode today is actually brought to you by one of my new companies I'm about to launch called Secrets of Success. This is going to be my personal development mindset, all sorts of cool things we'll talk about in that company, that business over here. So if you enjoy this stuff, I want to make sure you go and subscribe.

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Those come directly to me. I can look at those and potentially cover them in a future episode. So with that said, let's jump right into this episode of the podcast. You're listening to Marketing Secrets with your host, Russell Brunson. All right, everyone. This is Russell, and I'm excited for today's podcast episode. We were talking about a book written by Napoleon Hill that I actually bought on eBay for $10,000. And you may be like, Russell, this book is like 30 pages. Why would you spend $10,000 for it?

And it's because, first off, Napoleon Hill is my favorite author. Second off, I am literally scouring the country trying to find all the first edition, everything from Napoleon Hill. I'll tell you guys some really cool, interesting stories about that today. And this is a copy of a booklet that I found that I hadn't seen before. I actually had owned this copy of the book, The Magic Ladder of Success, which is really fat and big and was published, I think, in 1930. And this one was published like a decade earlier and it's like the precursor to this. In fact, this is actually based on a presentation that Pony Hill gave.

He traveled around the whole country giving a presentation. This is before Thinking Grow Rich, before Laws of Success, before all that stuff. It was when he was first kind of developing these thoughts and this methodology and his philosophy of success. And it's an early version of that. And so when I found this, I was like, this is really, really cool to read. In fact, when you open up, it starts by saying this is part of, this is like the transcript slash cleaned up version of a presentation he did all around the world. It said hundreds of thousands of people actually saw this presentation before Think and Grow Rich, which is kind of cool.

And so today I actually read this entire book. I have a whole bunch of notes and things. We're going to go over it. We're going to talk about it. But one of the fascinating things for me, two weeks ago I had a chance to fly out to the Napoleon Hill Foundation. And it's been cool because as I've been getting more and more obsessed with Napoleon Hill, as you can see behind me collecting all these books and courses and magazines and everything I can find that he's ever published or put out there,

it's taken me on this journey to a whole bunch of cool places. And we had a chance finally to go out to the Napoleon Hill foundation and look at all these cool things. And so, um, we had a chance to go first off meet Don green, who's the head of the foundation, but then also go to the archives and see, um, all the, the original, like the manuscripts for outwitting the devil and, um, another book that has not been launched or published yet. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it. But it's another unpublished Napoleon Hill book in the same series, like part two of the Outwitting the Devil book that no one's ever heard of.

Anyway, they're actually shipping me the manuscript this week, which is crazy. We'll talk about that later on another episode. Here's all these open loops. This is what I do. There's a thousand open loops. But anyway, it's really cool. One of the things we saw, which was really cool is, um, in one of the, uh, the glass cabinets, there were, um, his lecture notes, Napoleon Hill's lecture notes. So he was at a hotel.

So it was like on hotel stationary and he was writing down his notes that he was going to give on his talk. It was like section, you know, first thing I'm talking about this and then this and this and tell this story. And, and so I got pictures of me holding these, um, his notes from a presentation he gave. And this is cool because again, this, uh, book came from a presentation he gave all around this is cool because again, this book came from a presentation he gave all around the world called magic ladder success. And so when we talk about that, in fact, I doodled out while I was reading the book, the whole magic ladder success. And I

had one of our designers design one for you guys. And if you want this at the end, I'm going to give you guys a link where you can go and download a PDF version of this. You can print it out, hang it on your wall. So you can look at the 16 ladders of success. This is basically success at the top rung of the ladder and these are all the things you gotta do in order to be able to be successful, which is kind of cool. And if you've read a lot of success

or Thinking Rich, other ones, you notice that these steps aren't the exact same steps in his other books. And it's because this is early on in his career, he was still developing his thoughts, his methodologies, like what he wanted to teach on. And so this is one of the earliest versions, which was kind of fun. So, so that's what we're gonna talk about today is the magic ladder of success, how you guys have success in your life, in your business, whatever you're trying to do by following the same principles that Paul Hill

taught, um, from, uh, all around the country. Now, one thing he said in this book at the very intro that I think is interesting, and I wanted to share this with you guys before we get into this podcast episode in this video. He says, to the purchasers of this book, greetings from the author. If you merely purchase this bit of paper, printers, ink, and biting as a book, you're not going to get your money's worth. But if you have purchased the sum total of knowledge that I have gathered and classified during my walk down the valley of the shadow, if you have purchased that which I have learned from mistakes and failures, heartaches and disappointments. If you have purchased my services covering a period of more than 20 years during which I have earnestly and diligently getting ready to write this book,

then you will get your money's worth full press down and running over. One reading this book will do but little, if any good reading it over and over until every idea and it becomes your own. Then put these ideas to work, use them in all you do. And a small sum you invest in this book may easily prove to be the most important turning point in your life. I think this is true. This is why I'm so obsessed with books, by the way. Tony Robbins coined a phrase called decade in a day. We can take a decade of an author's life and they put it into a book you can read in a

day. For example, this one he talked about, this is 20 years of his stuff put into this book that I was able to read in about an hour. With that said, this podcast episode, I want you to look at it the exact same way. This is me taking 20 years and pulling it out of his stuff put into this book that I was able to read in about an hour. So with that said, this podcast episode, I want you to look at it the exact same way. This is me taking 20 years of Napoleon Hill's life. He put it down into a book that took me an hour to read, and I'm going to give it to you guys in 15, 20 minutes, and that's kind of the game plan. Does that sound good?

Okay, so to begin this, we're going to start on the bottom rung of the Magic Ladder success, and the bottom rung, and if you've studied Napoleon Hill at all, he talks about this in almost every one of his courses, books, podcasts, I guess he didn't have podcasts back then, radio interviews that have been turned into podcasts, things like that. But the very first step is the definite aim, okay? You have to have a definite aim, something you are searching for, something you're looking for, something you're trying to move towards. He said in here, in this book, he said that after serving, I think, 17,000 people, he

said, I found that only 5% of people have an actual aim. Other 95% are just followers. So only 5% of people are leaders who actually have an aim and like, I'm going this direction. I'm trying to accomplish this thing. And it could be anything. It could be in sports, could be in business, could be in your family life, could be in a relationship, but an actual aim of this is the thing I'm going for. In his, in his looking, it was only 5% of people.

And that was back in 1910 or 19, whenever this book was written. I think today people are even more lost now than back then. So I would say that number's probably less. But the first thing was having a definite aim. And if you have a definite aim, then a definite plan to actually achieve that aim, right? You can't say, I wanna lose 20 pounds.

And that's my definite aim, that's it. No, it's like, you have to, my definite aim is I wanna lose 20 pounds. And then the definite plan to actually get that is okay. I'm gonna do it by following this diet plan, this person, this, you know, whatever that thing might be. So it's definite aim and then definite plan. Those are the two things that are successful for the first rung of, um, of the magic ladder success. Okay. After you have a definite aim, a definite plan, then it takes you to the next step, which is self-confidence. So not only do

you have to have the aim and the plan, you have to actually have belief that you can do it. You have to have self-confidence. I think I can actually do this, right? It's interesting. I always tell people that my head job as the head cheerleader here at ClickFunnels is just to get you guys to believe that it's actually successful.

Because it's not hard. It's been proven over and over and over again. I think we're two or three days away from passing 2,000 people the 102 Comic Club Award. The only difference between you and them, if you haven't hit it yet, is because you lack self-confidence. Like, I believe they could do it,

but I don't know if I could do that, right? So I'm their biggest cheerleader for you. Like, I know you can do it. I have self-confidence you can do it, but that's the second rung of the ladder is self-confidence. Do you actually think you can do it, right? So after you've got the definite aim, definite plan, then you go to self-confidence.

The third rung of the ladder is initiative. Are you actually gonna go and do the thing, right? How many of you guys have had ideas, like, I'm gonna do do this thing. I'm going to plan. I have a plan to go and do something, but then you don't actually do it, right? I want to be a state champ. When I was wrestling in high school, tons of people, I want to be a state champ. I want to be a state champ. They didn't have the initiative to actually go and do the actual work, right? I want to make a million dollars. I want to lose weight. I want to do whatever the thing is. Do you actually have the initiative to do the things you need to do to actually be successful, right? So definitely a

different plan. We got self-confidence. We can actually do it. And then next is to have initiative. We actually go out there and start taking the steps necessary to be successful. Run number four is imagination. It's not only to have the initiative to go do the steps when you do, then we'd have imagination, which be creative and to figure out new ways to solve the problems. In this book, he starts sharing a whole bunch of examples like Edison, he had initiative. He wanted to figure out how to create the light, but then he had to use imagination. Like, well, how's this going to work? I got to think through it, right?

Because there wasn't a plan yet, and here's how to build a light bulb. He had to add imagination. He talked about Christopher Columbus had initiative, but he had imagination. Like, how am I going to do this? How am I going to create this thing, right? Gutenberg with the printing press. He had initiative, but he had imagination. Like, how are we going to do this, right?

Wright Brothers, over, like story after story after story. Um, they says, um, that the, the two keys to having initiative imagination, those two things together, um, unlock the next level, right? He says these two qualities are the main reasons why the 95% of adult people in the world have no definite aim in life, which in turn is the reason why the same 95% constitute the followers in life. Like the initiative and imagination is the next thing that unlocks that leadership. Run number five is action, okay? You hear this so much in personal development. You hear this in the business world.

Like you got to take action. You take massive action and go there and actually do the thing, right? It's similar to initiative. If the initiative gets you started, action is like the momentum that keeps it happening, right? Taking action on the idea is like despite fear and like all the problems that come up when we're trying to do anything, it's like blasting through that and actually doing the action we need. One of the really cool stories that Napoleon Hill shared here inside the book talking about action, which I thought was so powerful. He said, a few years ago, I went out to a Chicago public parks

and interviewed seven of the so-called down and outs fellows who lie around asleep with newspapers over their faces while work is plentiful and wages are high. I wanted to catch a glimpse of their particular alibi. I love how he called it an alibi. I knew they had what they believed to be a reason for being without work. It was some small change in a pocket full of cigars that got pretty close to these fellows. What do you suppose they told me? Every mother's son of them. It's a weird phrase we don't use in America anymore, but apparently back then they did.

Each of them said substantially this. I am here because the world would not give me a chance. He said So think of it because the world did not give me a chance to the world ever give any person a chance other than that, which would they went out and created by the use of their imagination, self-confidence initiative, and those other qualities mentioned in the ladder. We are not to argue the point that if there is no action, all education, the world, all the knowledge that ever came from the best colleges and universities on the earth, all the good intentions, plus all the other qualities mentioned in this magic ladder would not be of any value whatsoever. Okay. And so action is the key, like getting action after you have all

these things. Um, he earlier in the book talked a lot about this, like the fact that there's so much knowledge, right? There's knowledge in encyclopedias and books and everything, but just having the knowledge doesn't help you be successful as taking the knowledge and actually turning it into something, right? A couple of quotes from the book. He said, there's a great deal of knowledge carefully classified and stored away in well-edited encyclopedias, but it represents no power until it's transformed in an organized, intelligent, directed effort, right? So just having knowledge isn't key. Like just reading a million books isn't key. It's like reading the books and then applying the thing, taking the

action, doing the next step. He says, there's no power in college degrees nor in education, which these degrees represent until it's classified, organized, and put into action. So our job is like, as you're learning and consuming and you're listening to podcasts, you're studying, you're reading books, you're watching this video or listening to the audio or wherever you bumped into this at, right? The key is not just the accumulation of knowledge. It's the accumulation and turning that into actual action. That's how you have success in any aspect of your life. Let's continue to move up the rungs of the ladder.

Number six now is enthusiasm. Not just saying, oh, I'm going to have to go do this thing. We joke, some of my friends, we tease them and call them Eeyore because it's like the donkey, okay, I guess I'm going to do it. Those people rarely have success in life. If people have success, it's like, oh, this is going to be hard. Okay, but I have enthusiasm. I'm excited. I'm going to do it. Like those people rarely have success in life. If people have success, like, oh, this is going to be hard. Okay, but I have enthusiasm. I'm excited.

I'm going to go do the thing and be successful. So you take action, but not action with like, oh, like dread or remorse or, you know, tiredness or whatever. It's doing it with enthusiasm. I do it. Okay, if I'm going to go accomplish this definite aim, my chief purpose, the thing I'm going after, I'm going to do it with energy and excitement. I'm going to go attack it.

Right? So rung number six is enthusiasm. Rung number seven now is self-control. He talks about the importance in here of being able to control ourselves, control our anger, control our frustrations, control those things. Because as you are going on this path and moving towards being successful in whatever area of life you're looking to be successful in, there's going to be things come up, right? And if you can't have self-control to be able to stay focused, be able to keep doing the

thing you're supposed to be doing to continue to take action to not get frustrated mad or angry all those kind of things if you can have that self-control it's gonna help you be more successful one of the quotes i loved he said in here no person's ever became a great leader of other men until he first learned how to lead himself through self-control self-mastery is the first stepping stone to real achievement okay so. So the question for you is like, do you have self-mastery? Do you have self-control? Are you able to control your, your thoughts and your, um, all the things, right? We're in this constant battle in our mind. Like, like we want to go do something, but our mind's like, ah, but it's easier to go and watch Netflix. I want to go run and lose weight. Oh, but it's easier to go to Krispy Kreme and get donuts,

right? Like there's this mental battle that we're going through every single day, every single one of us and learning how to control our mind, uh, is one of the big keys to success. Okay. We're gonna continue to move up the, uh, magic ladder success rung number eight. Um, he says it in more words than I'm going to say it. So I'll say his way first. He said, rung number eight is the habit of performing more work and better work than you are paid to perform. Um, I like to call this principle, the principle of over delivering, right? Um work than you are paid to perform. I like to call this principle the principle of over-delivering, right? Whenever you are in any circumstance or situation, you always want to do more than you're paid, than you were paid for. He talks a lot about this in Think and

Grow Rich, talks about in the law of success, like this is one of the principles that he goes deep in all the time. It's just like, look, you want to be successful in life, always do more than you are paid for, always over-deliver. If someone pays you $50 an hour to do something, give them $100 an hour worth of effort. And if you do that, over time, people will continue to look at your value and it'll increase, right? And so again, he says the habit of performing more work and better work than you're paid for, which again I say is hashtag over-deliver. Always over-deliver in all aspects of your life. If you over-deliver in your relationships, you're going to have good relationships.

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If you've read any of my books, all three, dot-com secrets,, expert secrets and traffic secrets, I talk about this concept called the attractive character, right? The attractive character is all about like, who are you putting out there in the world? It's going to attract the right people to you. And in this book, he talks about attractive personality. And so the same thing is that people aren't going to want to work with you. If you're like always depressed or sad or not putting those things out there, you're right. If you, um, if you look scary, if you're not like keeping yourself clean, like things like that. So it's like, you have to look at that. Like if you want to attract people into your life to help you to reach your goals, you have to have an attractive personality. It doesn't mean to be good looking. That doesn't matter. But like an attractive personality where you're, you're nice

to talk to, you're pleasant. You're not angry people all the time. Like, um, people can have conversations with you looking at your life and figuring out how can I have an attractive personality and studying people who do have attractive personalities. Um, a good book that, um, isn't this book obviously, but another one to go deeper onto if you want to go deeper on that is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. How do you do that? If you understand those principles of how you present yourself, it's how you, like Dale Carnegie said, it's how you win friends and influence people, which is a big step in the ladder of success. Okay, rung number 10, accurate thought. This is one that most of the world struggles with.

Every time they hear any knowledge or information, they think it's the truth. And sometimes it is, but oftentimes it's not, especially today. Think about it, Napoleon Hill wrote this back way before the internet, way before computers, back when there were just typewriters, right? And before we were having all the social media

where everyone and their dog has an opinion, everyone's telling you what they think. And there's, you know, anybody can publish anything. It's insane. And most people are looking at stuff and taking all this truth or everything's false or whatever. And they don't have accurate thinking, right? For us to be successful, we have to have accurate thought. Okay. So, uh, Napoleon Hill says this difference between separating between mere information and actual facts. Like what is the actual truth? It's important for us to get to the actual truth. We're not just making decisions based on, um,

on information, which could, and usually is not correct. Right? And so we have to figure out for ourselves, like how do we create a way to make sure that we have accurate thoughts? How do we fact check ourselves? Like what are our sources?

Where do we look to? Like what are the things we can do to make sure that the choices we're making based on information we're given are correct. Right? And it comes down to really having accurate thought and not just taking things at face value, but studying, learning them out, testing, trying things, right? One of the biggest things I've learned in my life that when I hear something and I'm not just always going to be, oh, this is true. I'm going to take it and think through it. I'm going to test it out. And if it

works, right, then okay, this is a good thing. In the Bible, it talks about how this is the principle of the seed, right? Like you have a seed, like is this a good good seed or bad seed? I don't know. Only to know is to plant the seed and see if it grows. If it grows like, Oh, this is a good seed, right? Same thing is true with information coming to you. Like, don't just take everything as this is the truth until you've planted it. You've watered it. You've tested it. You've seen what's happened. If it grows up in something good, it's like, okay, that is true. Therefore I'm going to continue to use that for the rest of my life. Right? So accurate thought is a huge key because if you're getting the wrong information and looking at it as truth and you're running the wrong direction, you never get to the

outcome you're looking for. Okay. So accurate thought is rung number 10. Yes. Rung number 10. All right. Rung number 11, concentration. Are you able to concentrate long enough to actually get the project or the thing done?

Okay. Can you focus enough to like, despite all the distractions and back again, this is, I keep quoting what year, but let me make sure I have the right year. The year that this book was published is 1921. So 1921, how hard was it to have concentration? Right. Probably not hard. Like they had telephones, I'm assuming they had, I don't think they had TVs in their houses. Like, and he was focused on concentration then. Like they didn't have, you know, texting and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and Skype and Slack and zoom and, uh, text messages and DMS and instant message and Snapchat and, um, you know, all like the chaos.

Right. And he was concerned about concentration back then. Today it's even worse. Like how in the world do you get concentration? She actually focused and get things done right now. I'm in a room with a whole bunch of walls and a bunch of books and nothing else. There's a computer, but even though I'm on the computer, I try to turn off the internet so I can focus and actually get things done. What is it you're doing to be able to make sure you can concentrate on the goal at hand so you can actually be successful?

Because there are a million things that are fighting for your attention every single second of every single day. And if you're not careful and you give in to those things, you're never going to get to the finish line of what you're trying to accomplish. So concentration is key. After concentration, next rung up the ladder is persistency. Okay. Um, and persistency is going to lead into the next one as well. Persistency though is like continue to try and to try and to try. Okay. It's not a one-time thing. Success is not something that most people stumble upon immediately, right? If you were to watch a movie and you watch this hero's journey and the hero, when he tried something, he just had success. What would you think about that? You're like, this movie is really boring. He tried. And the

very first time he tried, it was successful, right? Like persistency is what helps you to grow. It helps a character in a movie to grow and develop and become something amazing. And same thing is true for you, right? Your goal of getting success is not to make this an easy path to the end. It's for you to grow and to become something different, become something better, right? The whole thing, we're trying to be successful in any area of our life. It's like this process of us trying to become who we're supposed to become, right? And so persistence is like part of that goal. It's like, it's, it's the growth process, right? Like trying and failing and trying and failing until as you continue to be persistent, that's when you show up. And I believe that, um, I think a lot of

times God gives us these desires, these goals or things we're pursuing and he wants to be persistent, that's when you show up. And I believe that, um, I think a lot of times God gives us these desires, these goals or things we're pursuing. And he wants to say like, how persistent, how bad does he really want this? He wants to see, and he's testing us, right? If you just made it simple and you didn't earn anything, right? Um, true success and true happiness and fulfillment in success comes from like getting through the trials and like, and struggling and persisting and, and, and growing and becoming the person you're supposed to be. So rung number 12 is persistency, which leads us to rung number 13, which is failure. One thing he said in here is interesting. He said that this brings us to the lucky 13th rung of the ladder, which is failure.

He says, do not stumble on this rung. It is the most interesting rung of all because it deals with the facts you must face in life, whether you wish to do so or not. It shows you as clearly as you might see the sun on a clear day, how you can turn every failure into an asset, how you carve every failure into a foundation stone upon which your house of success will stand forever. He also says that failure is the only subject on the whole ladder, which might be called negative.

And we shall show you how and why it is one of the most important of life's experiences. Okay? Failure is the key, right? Like persistency and failure, these two rungs, they go hand in hand, like we are persist and we're going to fail. We are persistent. We're going to fail. And like that process of failing is how we get things closer and closer and closer until eventually we're successful. Right. Um, again, it's very rare that someone goes and they have success in the first try. So they set really little goals, right? The bigger goal you have, the more

failures can become part of it. And most people are so scared of failing that they're never willing to even try. We're understanding that failure is one of the steps of success. It's like, okay, I'm gonna fail. That's okay, I'm gonna go through the process. I'm gonna fail and be like, oh, I failed. What do I learn from this? How can I grow from this?

I think people who have been athletes a lot of times have more success in most aspects of life because they've had to fail over and over and over again. As a wrestler, I stepped on the mat hundreds of times and I didn't win every match. I lost a lot of matches, right? But I went out there, I lost a match. I came back, we looked at the film, we figured out what did I learn? Like, how do I fail? What do I need to do differently? We persisted. We went and figured out a new plan. We came back and we tried again, right? And then I'd succeed or I'd fail. And if I fail, I'd go back to the drawing board and keep

trying. And eventually through that process, that refiner's fire, I became so good that I was able to beat most people. Right. And so a lot of times athletes who've had a chance to go out there and they know like, Hey, if I step on the mat or on the court or on the field or whatever their thing is, that if I lose, I'm not a loser. Right. I just have to go watch the game film and learn and then practice and come better. Like people have gone through athletics. A lot of times that's more real to them. So they transition to business or other areas of their life. It's easier for them to have success than those who have never had a chance to fail, right? And so if you haven't had a chance to fail in the past, like it's one of the keys is understanding like it's okay.

Just because you fail doesn't mean you're a failure. But the process, the plan that you had tried before failed, right? Okay, cool. That's okay. Come back and retweak the plan, like refigure it out. And between persistence and failure, persistence and failure over time is how you actually find success. Okay. So, uh, that is rung number 13 is failures. Now as you move to rung number 14, um, this is tolerance and sympathy. This is starting to look outward, not just, um, for yourself and you should have tolerance and sympathy for your own failures

and mistakes, but also for the people that are around you. And one interesting thing about the magic ladder success you'll notice is that, um, Napoleon Hill, one of his core principles in laws of success and I think can grow rich is the power of a mastermind. And he doesn't talk about a mastermind here. He hadn't developed that principle, that concept yet in his, in his thoughts and his writings. Uh, but this is, I believe part of it talking about tolerance and sympathy, like towards the people you're around, right? Like if you're working towards a goal, chances are it's not just you. There's other people on this journey with you. How do you have tolerance and sympathy for them and the struggles and frustrations they're having as well?

By doing that, it helps you get more people to come and want to help you along your journey as well. Okay, we're getting close to the end of the success ladder. Number 15 now is work. Actually going out there and doing the work necessary to be successful in this process. You'll notice that like, certainly every four or five rungs are about like the progress, like the making progress, right? There's action, there's initiative, there's work, like it's doing the actual thing. And it's interesting as you look through this ladder, like every three or four rungs is kind of brought up in a different version of that.

But I think it's important because most people think that if I don't, they're hoping that they're just going to think and grow rich, right? But it's think and grow rich, but in the process, your thoughts have to become actions, right? And this is what we're talking about, step number 15 is work, like going out there again and doing the work to be successful. If you notice in Napoleon Hill's writings, he always likens things back to nature. Like how are things happening naturally in nature? And then how does that relate back to us? And in this principle, he talks about again, says all nature's laws have decreed that nothing may live, which is not used the arm, which is tied to one's arm and removed from active use will

wither up and perish away. So it is with any other part of the physical body. Disuse brings decay and death. Likewise, the human mind with all of its qualities will wither up and decay unless it is used this is wrong the mind will not decay but the brain the physical agent through which the mind functions will decay unless it is used every picture which reaches a human brain through the five senses embeds itself upon one of the tiny brain cells where to wither up and die through disuse or to become vivid and healthy through constant use okay so we got to work we keep putting these motions in process to make our muscles grow, our mind grow, whatever it is that we're trying to work towards. And then this brings us to run number 16, the top,

the last one before success, and this is the golden rule. And the golden rule's interesting because Napoleon Hill, I think back in 1912, back in the early years, people talked more about this, right? The golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, right?

This is a biblical principle. It's a biblical statement. But we don't talk about it nowadays. But it's such a heavy thing in Napoleon Hill's mind. He actually launched a magazine called Hill's Golden Rule. When I was at the Napoleon Hill Foundation, he had a golden ruler. His actual, I got a whole, he got pictures of me holding, like, this is the golden ruler that Napoleon Hill carried around with him everywhere to remember this principle of Hill's

golden rule. And the golden rule, like, it's such a key thing, like do unto others, you'd have them do unto you. And so it's the last step on the ladder here to success is, is the golden rule. And, um, I can't tell you all the details, but the outwitting the devil book, the part two of that book, I won't tell you the title yet or anything, because I don't want to ruin the surprise when you get to find out about it. But in this book, it talks about Hitler. And Hitler's one of the most successful people of all time. He says he followed all the laws of success except for two.

And I won't tell you all of them, but one of them was the golden rule. He said that's why Hitler was successful in doing what he did, but ultimately not successful in life because he missed one of the golden rule, or one of the rungs of the ladder. And one of them was the golden rule. Do unto others as you have them do unto you. When you start looking at this as a filter through all the choices and the actions you're making in life, it keeps you on the straight and narrow path of success and harmony and mental,

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Success right here, which goes even deeper and there's more principles, more stories. And I think he's changed some of the rungs around based on how his philosophy had evolved over almost a decade period of time. But again, if you make sure that you are subscribed to this channel, if you're on the podcast, make sure you're subscribed to the podcast. That way, as I, as I bring you guys other episodes, other things about these topics, you have a chance to get them, uh, as well. And, um, there you go. Magic ladder success. All right. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the podcast talking about Napoleon Hill's magic ladder success. Again, so many cool principles,

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