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The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill's Success Classic

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When I read Napolean Hill's original I found myself wanting more contemporary examples as well as the historic giants. I am half-way through this version. Although I like contemporary examples presented in this book and, overall, the updates to language, etc. I am hestitant to recommend it because it too often reads like an adverstisment. For example, on the bottom of every page is the advertisement "BONUS! 3 FREE Wealth-Building Gifts Worth $97 at ***.com". Once on a cover page or at the end would do. But every page? Inserted into the text are frequent advertisements to visit this same website to browse for more information. Then it seems that the only current idea worth pursuing as presented by this book is the internet. About which, by the way, you can find more information at the author's website.

I also found myself bothered by the author's rant in chapter 6 against "radicals", "racketeers", "dishonest politicians", "crooked labor leaders", "religious leaders" and any form of socialization to help the poor because they are "deadbeat" welfare beneficiaries. The author puts for the thesis that captialistic economics cannot be "swayed, influenced, or bribed by racketeers, lobbyisists, or self-appointed leaders in any calling." Predatory practices are brought to light and prosecuted every day by the people the author denigrates, most practicies being targeted at the poor and elderly. The thing I appreciated about "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez and Robin, another pathway to financial freedom, is their focus on social concerns hand in hand with improvement of you financial position. Perhaps the author is a strong supporter of private concerns and only has a problem with government socialization. But I found the lack of a presentation about social awareness and the only way to benefit society is by capitalistic production and personal profit problematic. After all, Benjamin Franklin donated what could have been a very lucrative invention the lightening rod to society to benefit all men.

So if you want a more contemporary version of "Think and Grow Rich", read this book for the good, updated information. Ignore the interuptive advertisements. Then read "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez and Robin to figure out why you want to be rich and what to do with your wealth after.

When Think and Grow Rich was first published in 1937 it was an expose of the the secrets of millionaires. Napoleon Hill was, in essence, a reporter, commissioned to find the common denominator of the most successful people of that time.

It was breathtaking. America was certainly the land of opportunity, but that opportunity was to exist in a free market through mostly back breaking labor. Then, on the heels of the Great American Depression comes this book! Instantly it began changing lives for the better.

Someone once told me that it was estimated that billions of dollars were since created by the army of men and women who read and practiced at least some of what was written in the original "Think and Grow Rich." That book changed the world, even as the world changed.

Readers took most of it on faith. Today, science and psychology as well as solid results over the years, proves to us that these principles work. But, the original work is clearly outdated. We no longer have to take it on faith. There are also many more applications available.

Also, the book was written for the time and sensibilities of white male, mostly middle-class American. It was framed in the predominate uni-culture of the day where success was a closed door to most others. Of course, over the years, as Western culture became more enlightened, all could read and apply these powerful principles of success.

However, it took a man like Ted Ciuba, a man who saw mostly poverty until his early 40's, to bring the three dimensional 21st Century applications of these principles to life. His life turned around as result of reading the original. He became a multi-millionaire as guided by the techniques and attitudes he read about in TGR. He also began a new career of showing others the "secrets" of wealth creation.

To make this a 21st Century classic, Ciuba pulled together the most updated and modern research that backs this work. He was able to do this all the while keeping it amazingly readable and designed so that anyone could begin applying the techniques from the first chapter on.

The original version changed my life and perspective as a naive 20-year-old, fresh out of North Dakota. The 21st Century version is proving to be equally life changing in a whole new way. This is a must for anyone tired of the rat race or of the prospect of joining same.

Tom Justin
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I've read the old THINK AND GROW RICH many times and wondered about the outdated language and references. Wasn't there someone maintaining the work of Napoleon Hill and presenting it in a way future generations would understand and embrace?

Fortunately, I've found Ted Ciuba's THE NEW THINK AND GROW RICH. I replaced my tired old copies with this wonderful new work. All of the best of the original are there, but Ted has added to the book with newer languages and fixed a few outdated references, making the subject more approachable.

All the principles are intact, enhanced with new insights and examples learned in the 100 years since Napoleon Hill started the project. This is the version I will read next time, and for many years to come.

In 1937, right in the middle of the depression, Napoleon Hill wrote the original book 'Think and Grow Rich.' It was a best seller and it set Hill off to writing a whole series of books on the same general subject. The original book, and all the others are still in print.

However, in the seventy yesrs since the publication of the original book: the language has become somewhat old fashioned, the situation regarding the world markets, the development of the Internet, the acceptance of female and minority members in business -- Much has changed.

In this new edition of the book, Ted Ciuba has taken the old book and re-written it to covers these new points. The book reads better and has more up to date ideas while it still conveys the tone and usefullness of the original.

Note that the Napoleon Hill Foundation did not prepare, approve, license or endorse this version of the book.

I read the original "Think and Grow Rich" book by Napoleon Hill many years ago and it was one of the main causes that made me go into business by myself, leaving a General Manager of Sales Training position in the biggest insurance company in Mexico, and starting my own company (now at [...]).

But, when reading the book, I had to really work hard to translate the outdated language and it always seemed to me a little boring. Not that the concepts were not useful, but I tended to distract easily.

Now, with the New Think and Grow Rich book by Ted Ciuba these are no longer part of a great success book. It really should be considered the book to have by the bed and read from it every day.

And, of course, what price does success have? For the low price of this book, having the distilled info and concepts to not only be rich but wealthy, updated for the 21st Century, is invaluable.

Let's get to work applying the exercises and getting rich!

For the 'next generation' in personal achievement, turn to a new version of Napoleon Hill's long-time best-selling 'Think and Grow Rich'. This is more than just a revamp with modern examples - it radically transforms the vision by adding new gender, cross-cultural and international issues to the mix, including new material to include both science and genetics, as in the Quantum reality of accelerating income and wealth. An excellent re-do of a classic financial inspirational guide, any library where Hill's been a popular patron pick must have this latest version.

"Powerful, Enlightening, Empowering! Ted Ciuba's "The New Think and Grow Rich" is a powerful book with enlightening concepts that will empower readers on their way to achieving harmonic abundance. This is one book that is a must read and for personal study as well as an important addition for the home and business library!" Bruce Goldwell, co-author "Mastery of Abundant Living"

When I was told that the timeless classic Think and Grow Rich was re-written, I was thinking to myself "This must be a joke. Who else could do a better job than Hill? It is just like Dan Brown trying to rewrite The Bible, and I am sure Mr. Brown would get a lot of good laughs!"

I was not even going to buy the New TGR.

It all changed...

I was honored enough to meet Ted once again at a recent seminar. We got talking, and I started to know this man more and more and I realised that he is MORE than an Internet Marketer. His views on wealth and personal development stir my interests to get a copy of the New TGR.

I ordered it just before Christmas, and I am on Chapter 5 now, and boy, I got to tell you that it really does hit home with me. The impacts of the New TNG really really inspire me more than any other Personal Development books out there, including the original TGR. The original TGR is good, but somehow it never "sticks" into my soul as much as the New TGR (just me maybe)...

But when the New TGR is with me, I am like on fire. I read the darn thing every single day!! No joke!

There are many statements in the New TGR that really touch me, like
"I could have been born here..."
"Why don't you try to prove that the priciples of TGR work instead of the opposite...?".

Man, geee, this thing is awesome!

There are a lot more to list...

But what really got me to write this testimonial for Ted, without him even asking, was that he truly immersed himself in Hill's lifetime work and practised the Hill's 13th principle, ie "The Sixth Sense" to bring out the New Think and Grow Rich!

Thanks Ted!

Ever since I first discovered Ted Ciuba's passion for Think and Grow Rich I knew he would do something wonderful. Well he has surpassed my expectations with "The New Think & Grow Rich". This is a long overdue update and now everyone can fully understand the principles taught in today's language. I am honored to have him associated with Morgan James Publishing.