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Napoleon Hill
Desire, faith, planning, action — Think and Grow Rich sets out a philosophy of success in thirteen principles, and nearly ninety years after publication it is still read worldwide as a source of the modern self-help genre. Its author, Napoleon Hill, said Andrew Carnegie urged him into a study he pursued for twenty years, examining more than five hundred successful people to systematise their laws. Yet his own life ran through failed ventures and a fortune lost in the Great Depression. At what moment in time did the man who taught success bring this book into the world? We read what overlapped at its publication in March 1937 against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Napoleon Hill — Author of Think and Grow Rich
- Period analysed
- 1883–1970
- Three pillars
- Day 癸卯 / Month 壬戌 / Year 癸未
- Void branches
- 辰巳 (Dragon–Snake)
- Destiny area
- 1.294 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny binds self and society with the greatest possible force, while carrying a gap in the realm of the mind.
- His mother's death, the publication of his system, the crash and the patron of his later years fall in the same kind of year, twelve years apart.
- His great book and his fame were born inside a twenty-year void that began in the year of the crash.
- In the month of publication, the same cycle as his own day pillar returned.
- The theme of his book — that the mind is mirrored in reality — appears as the output of his destiny itself.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why was his great book born after he lost his fortune in the crash?
- Why did the turning points of his life fall twelve years apart?
- What overlapped in March 1937?
- Why did the man who taught success rise and fall again and again?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1893 | 癸巳 (天) | Loses his mother at nine |
| 1908 | 戊申 | Says he met Andrew Carnegie |
| 1919 | 己未 | Founds Hill's Golden Rule magazine |
| 1928 | 戊辰 (天) | Publishes The Law of Success in eight volumes |
| 1929 | 己巳 (天天) | Loses his fortune in the crash |
| 1937 | 丁丑 (天) | Publishes Think and Grow Rich |
| 1945 | 乙酉 (天) | Publishes The Master Key to Riches |
| 1952 | 壬辰 (天) | Begins working with W. Clement Stone |
| 1970 | 庚戌 | Nov — dies in South Carolina |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade. (天天) = void year inside a void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The Dragon–Snake years
- The twenty-year void
- The four layers of 15 March 1937
- The bridge seal and the seat of the mother
- The mirror and the Master Mind
- Twenty years of rise and fall
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii