How To Raise Your Own Salary

A most definite way to get your mind thinking.

Really pleased with this purchase.

I write in English because I suppose that you speak English if you read that book in English. I don't think there is a French translation. I heard about it in a random video and I bought it. It's the first book of Napoleon Hill that I read (I mean I haven't read Think and Grow Rich).Almost everything that has been written about personal development since then is in this book. The book date back in 1953 but the conversations seem to be much older. Except a couple of chapters, it's the verbatim of the conversations between Andrew (not Dale ;) Carnegie and Napoleon Hill about the 17 factors of success in life. It's very powerful.Except a couple of chapters which are pure pro-industry lobbying, and if you set aside the faith in American values (free enterprise, American dream, etc.) and the place of women (housewives, at the time), it's pretty modern - I have no problem with references to The Creator, even if I am atheist.So not only this book contains most of the principles, if applied, which will make you succeed in life, but it has hidden lessons at every corner, read it carefully.So my only negative points are the useless chapters voicing Carnegie's anti-communism and praising the cooperation between authorities and industry. But it's negligeable. One point which is missed: how to develop creativity. I mean that Carnegie and Hill go pretty far into each subject, but here, they just skip the subject.Otherwise, everything is there and it's worth the purchase : get a goal, focus, be straight and self-disciplined, enthusiastic, be well surrounded, use wisely your free time, etc. It's so modern ! Fully applicable today.OK, one hidden lesson to give you an example: if you are not self-disciplined, then you are drifting, it's one or the other, one or zero, nothing in between. I mean it's a hidden lesson, because it's one sentence or one paragraph in a chapter, which is not the very subject of the chapter, i.e. not developped. But I got the hidden lesson. Here, it's black or white. Either you make the necessary efforts and you control your pulsions/thoughts/actions or you go nowhere. Well, if you think about it, it's very powerful. And the book bears a good two dozen of hidden lessons like this one.To conclude, this book not only is exhaustive on personal development, but it brings even more. And incredibly, nobody has ever heard about it and everybody reads Think and Grow Rich. I prefer to read the source of Think and Grow Rich, which is this book (N. Hill started with conversations with A. Carnegie before everything else, so you have here the source of everything he wrote afterwards). A hidden jewel.

Seitdem ich dieses Buch gelesen habe bin ich mir erst vielen Dingen bewusst geworden. Es hat mir geholfen meine Karriere wieder steil nach oben zu lenken :)

Uno de mis libros preferidos. La transcripción del diálogo entre Carnegie e Hill.A pesar de haber pasado tantos años, los consejos que se dan en las entrevistas son muy actuales y con total seguridad muchos coaches de la actualidad han copiado sus consejos y tácticas.