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Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude is a classic self-improvement book that will boost your happiness and give you the life of your dreams by identifying what Napoleon Hill learned interviewing hundreds of successful people and sharing how their outlook on life helped them get to the top.
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude is a classic self-improvement book that will boost your happiness and give you the life of your dreams by identifying what Napoleon Hill learned interviewing hundreds of successful people and sharing how their outlook on life helped them get to the top.
The #1 determining factor of success is a positive mental attitude, or PMA, Hill suggests.
How much you accomplish in life is directly correlated with how well you nurture your PMA. Like a magnet drawing metallic objects to it, developing this skill of positivity will inevitably draw prosperity to you.
So what does a PMA look like? Well, it’s the ability to look on the bright side of things, to have hope, even in the most dire circumstances. People with a healthy attitude don’t get beaten down by failure but instead, see them as the opportunities they are. Every failure is only a step in the direction toward a solution to problems.
And with this confidence in the face of failure also comes the courage to try. Having a PMA is even a catalyst for being eager to try and having a hunger for improving yourself. It lights a fire of hope inside of you that provides the constant illumination and warmth of inspiration.
Henry Ford is a good example of having a PMA. His goal was to build a cheap V8 engine that he could mass produce. Prior to this time, only luxury cars had this massive engine in them. Although his engineers were critical of this goal, Ford was persistent.
It took a year, but Henry Ford’s PMA and determination eventually brought the world it’s first mass-produced V8 engine. And it made him one of the most successful businessmen ever.
If you break it down, success is just simply solving problems. Just look at the smartest people throughout history. All of their great achievements began with them looking for innovative solutions to a problem. The way we look at obstacles is purely a matter of our mental attitude. If we give up at every challenge we face, then we have a negative mental attitude, or NMA. If you look for the positives to what’s going on, however, then you’ve got the makings of a PMA, which you can use to fix the issue. When something goes wrong, we can have a PMA by seeing the opportunity as a challenge. In other words, it’s a chance to show ourselves what we’re made of and how well we can do. Rather than giving up when things get hard, people with a PMA just try harder. Even people in jail can have a positive mental attitude and find success. And if they can,…
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