A review by authorcagray
Mais Esperto que o Diabo: O mistério revelado da liberdade e do sucesso by Napoleon Hill

This was a very interesting concept which became redundant. It's written during the Great Depression, when Hill has already written "Think and Grow Rich" and is well-known worldwide, and then he loses everything and has to discover whether any of the things he wrote about and taught actually work. He taps into his "Other Self," which to me sounds like God, and with His/its direction, he takes some seemingly absurd leaps of faith that work out perfectly. Then the second part of the book involves an interview with the Devil. He, apparently, believes he actually had a spiritual conversation with the Devil, and in a courtroom drama of sorts, he forces the Devil to tell him all his dastardly plans of how he "gets" people. Ultimately, the Devil tells him that he convinces people to become drifters, meaning that they have no definite aims in life, nor definite thoughts. The Devil is the negative forces in nature (including the electron!), and he fills in the vacuum the drifters leave behind. His nemesis is any thinking man, but he claims this comprises only 2% of the world's population. All theological differences aside, the concept is fascinating. But it goes on and on, and doesn't really seem to say anything new beyond that. Interesting, because Hill thought his ideas were so controversial that his wife made him promise not to publish the book in his lifetime. Hill died in 1970 and the book was only just published in 2011!