Self Improvement
Personal development, self help or self improvement books abound today, but where
did it all start? Probably the first successful book of the type was Napoleon Hill s The
Law Of Success or its more famous follow-up Think And Grow Rich ....
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Self Improvement
Personal development, self help or self improvement books abound today, but where
did it all start? Probably the first successful book of the type was Napoleon Hill s The
Law Of Success or its more famous follow-up Think And Grow Rich .
Indeed, it
seems to this writer that much of what has been set down in later tomes of the genre
draws heavily upon Napoleon Hill s work.
Hill was a young journalist when an interview with the great industrialist and
philanthropist Andrew Carnegie transformed his life.
Carnegie challenged him to
study the most successful men in America and distil the principles and practices
common to them for the benefit of others.
Rising to the challenge Hill spent some twenty five years studying great men such as
Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville,
Theodore Roosevelt and many others.
His books are packed with remarkable
anecdotes and personal stories.
More importantly, Hill did discover a wide range of
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