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Mais Esperto que o Diabo: O mistério revelado da liberdade e do sucesso by Napoleon Hill
4.0
I've been a fan of Napoleon Hill's books since reading Think and Grow Rich many years ago. This one came highly recommended, and I can see why.
Written in 1938, this book was not published until 2011. Hill's wife urged him not to publish it, knowing that society would have skewered him over its assertions that churches and public schools were warping the minds of children. But Hill was not condemning all the teachings of these institutions, merely those that discourage children from thinking for themselves. By using the clever literary tool of an interview with the devil himself, Hill expressed ideas that would surely have met with resistance during his lifetime, and indeed during the entire 20th Century.
Having spent decades meeting with the ultra-successful people of his day (pretty much exclusively men, due to society's structure in that time), few people are better equipped than Napoleon Hill to convey the ideals that can lead a person to become successful. Many of his concepts have been explored in more contemporary books, most notably The Secret, and they are far less controversial today than they would have been in earlier years. That's not to say that the information in this book won't shake up your thinking: it most certainly will. Hill speaks of discovering your "other self" and listening to this higher intelligence that is plugged into the universe's great master intelligence.
If you aren't achieving what you'd like to be achieving in life, chances are you have been "drifting" (Hill's term) instead of working purposefully. This book explores several behaviors that lead to such drifting and the causes of those behaviors. What better source of that information than the devil himself, who says he "owns" the 98% of the population engaged in drifting? In Hill's interview with the devil, who he addresses as "Your Majesty" at the devil's insistence as a condition to his being truthful during the interview, Hill pins him down to reveal his greatest weaknesses and how we can overcome his temptations.
As with all books of this nature, reading them is one thing. Putting their information to work in your life is another entirely! But if you're feeling adrift and looking for something to give you direction, this book outlines what's likely holding you back and tells you how to start getting everything you want in life. Only 2% of people supposedly do so; will you be one?
Written in 1938, this book was not published until 2011. Hill's wife urged him not to publish it, knowing that society would have skewered him over its assertions that churches and public schools were warping the minds of children. But Hill was not condemning all the teachings of these institutions, merely those that discourage children from thinking for themselves. By using the clever literary tool of an interview with the devil himself, Hill expressed ideas that would surely have met with resistance during his lifetime, and indeed during the entire 20th Century.
Having spent decades meeting with the ultra-successful people of his day (pretty much exclusively men, due to society's structure in that time), few people are better equipped than Napoleon Hill to convey the ideals that can lead a person to become successful. Many of his concepts have been explored in more contemporary books, most notably The Secret, and they are far less controversial today than they would have been in earlier years. That's not to say that the information in this book won't shake up your thinking: it most certainly will. Hill speaks of discovering your "other self" and listening to this higher intelligence that is plugged into the universe's great master intelligence.
If you aren't achieving what you'd like to be achieving in life, chances are you have been "drifting" (Hill's term) instead of working purposefully. This book explores several behaviors that lead to such drifting and the causes of those behaviors. What better source of that information than the devil himself, who says he "owns" the 98% of the population engaged in drifting? In Hill's interview with the devil, who he addresses as "Your Majesty" at the devil's insistence as a condition to his being truthful during the interview, Hill pins him down to reveal his greatest weaknesses and how we can overcome his temptations.
As with all books of this nature, reading them is one thing. Putting their information to work in your life is another entirely! But if you're feeling adrift and looking for something to give you direction, this book outlines what's likely holding you back and tells you how to start getting everything you want in life. Only 2% of people supposedly do so; will you be one?