Company Book

The book our company chose was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.  The book was written in the 1930s when the U.S. was  still in the Great Depression.The book attracted people during this time because of the way it looked at becoming wealthy.  Hill looked at this process from the standpoint of a sound mindset.  Basically if your thoughts and attitude are right, you can accomplish anything you want to do.  Hill talks about things that are quite revolutionary in that people never really seem to phrase them the way he does.  For instance faith.  Hill talks about faith, not as in having faith in a higher power or in the government, but rather in your own capabilities.  He shows how true faith in yourself is the ultimate form of determination.  He gives the example of Edwin C. Barnes who one day walked up to the home of Thomas Edison and informed him that he would be his assistant.  Barnes was determined to become Edison's assistant and had told himself he would, installing it in his unconscious mind so that he truly believed he would.  Although Barnes started out at the bottom of the totem pole, he soon was, indeed, Edison's assistant.  Although this is obviously extreme, it shows very well how one can literally achieve whatever he believes he can do.  The book covers what seems as a very narrow subject, yet it applies to so much.  It is simple and yet complicated at the same time. By having the right mindset, one can accomplish anything that he/she believes he/she can achieve.