What I did this week (Week 41)

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What I did this week (Week 41)

5/18/2024

Writing to you from Denver, Colorado.

A question for you

Napoleon Hill came up with the idea of a personal “council” in his book Think and Grow Rich. Each night before bed he would address this council of men he admired.

He imagined sitting down with Paine, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Darwin, Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ford, and Andrew Carnegie. One by one he’d ask for the insights of each man.

He gathered these men in his mind to help him figure out how he could improve himself in one way or another.

So, if you were to create your personal council, who would be on it?

(If you have studied a specific historical figure or if you understand the story of a fiction character you will actually have a pretty good idea of the kind of insights they woul…