Free Success Ebook: “The Law of Success – Lesson Five: Initiative and Leadership” by Napoleon Hill
“To which class do you belong?” Inasmuch as you will be expected to take inventory of yourself and determine which of the fifteen factors of this course you need most, after you have completed the sixteenth lesson, it may be well if you begin to get ready for this analysis by answering the question that Elbert Hubbard has asked: To which class do you belong? - Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons, Lesson Five: Initiative and Leadership
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Free Success Ebook: “The Law of Success – Lesson Five: Initiative and Leadership” by Napoleon Hill (1928) Success Manual Strategist Edition 2011
Welcome, class, to Lesson Five of Professor Hill's The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons.
Lesson Five is titled "Initiative and Leadership" and is a key lesson to attaining Success in any endeavor. Clearly, the aspiring Success Student must develop and employ Initiative. Yet, equally important is the character of strong Leadership. Leadership means not only the ability to lead others, but the ability to lead ourselves. Hence, the relationship between "Initiative" and "Leadership."
Crew members of the Mount Washington Observatory take some time to watch and enjoy the sunrise while engulfed in a blanket of undercast clouds. Only the tallest peak portions of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire break through the undercast, like isolated islands in a sea of clouds. Photo by Ryan Knapp on December 14, 2010. Copyright © Mount Washington Observatory MWOBS at www.mountwashington.org.
As Napoleon Hill states in Lesson Five, "Initiative and Leadership are associated terms in this lesson for the reason that Leadership is essential for the attainment of Success, and Initiative is the very foundation upon which this necessary quality of Leadership is built. Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel."
Moreover, in Lesson Five, Professor Hill makes the following opening comments: "Before you proceed to the mastery of this lesson your attention is directed to the fact that there is perfect coordination of thought running throughout this course . . . You will observe that the entire sixteen lessons harmonize and blend with each other so that they constitute a perfect chain that has been built, link by link, out of the factors that enter into the development of power through organized effort. . . . This lesson, on Initiative and Leadership, follows the lesson on Self-confidence for the reason that no one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself."
The sun rises above a sea of undercast as viewed from Mount Washington of the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Photo by Ryan Knapp on December 14, 2010. Copyright © Mount Washington Observatory MWOBS at www.mountwashington.org. Thanks, Crew!
But, what exactly is "Initiative?" Professor Hill provides the following, relying on the teaches of Success Master Elbert Hubbard, author of the great short Success Classic, A Message to Garcia:
And what is Initiative?
It is that exceedingly rare quality that prompts – nay, impels – a person to do that which ought to be done without being told to do it. Elbert Hubbard expressed himself on the subject of Initiative in the words:
“The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for one thing, and that is Initiative.
“What is initiative? I’ll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
“But next to doing the right thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is say, ‘Carry the message to Garcia.’ Those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion.
“Next, there are those who do the right thing when necessity kicks them from behind, and these ‘get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay.
“This kind spend most of the time polishing a bench with a hard luck story.
“Then, still lower down in the scale than this we have the fellow who will not do the right thing even when someone goes along to show him how and stays to see that he does it; he is always out of a job, a receives the contempt he deserves, unless he has a rich pa, in which case destiny patiently waits around the comer with a stuffed club.
“To which class do you belong?”
A great philosopher once said: “Initiative is the pass-key that opens the door to opportunity.” Professor Hill agrees. So do I.
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Mount Monroe, the immediate peak of the Presidential Range to the soutwest of Mount Washington, breaks through the undercast flowing over the range ridge line. The Lakes of the Clouds, and the Lakes of the Clouds Hut, are obscured and covered by the undercast. Photo by Ryan Knapp on December 14, 2010. Copyright © Mount Washington Observatory MWOBS at www.mountwashington.org. Thanks, Crew!
Lesson Five includes a great Leadership Formula that Professor Hill urges that the Success Student copy and place conspicuously in his or her room where the Student will see it as he or she retires at night and rises in the morning:
Initiative and Leadership Forumla
Having chosen a definite chief aim as my lifework I now understand it to be my duty to transform this purpose into reality.
Therefore, I will form the habit of taking some definite action each day that will carry me one step nearer the attainment of my definite chief aim.
I know that procrastination is a deadly enemy of all who would become leaders in any undertaking, and I will eliminate this habit from my make-up by:
(a) Doing some one definite thing each day, that ought to be done, without anyone telling me to do it.
(b) Looking around until I find at least one thing that I can do each day, that I have not been in the habit of doing, and that will be of value to others, without expectation of pay.
(c) Telling at least one other person, each day, of the value of practicing this habit of doing something that ought to be done without being told to do it.
I can see that the muscles of the body become strong in proportion to the extent to which they are used, therefore I understand that the habit of initiative also becomes fixed in proportion to the extent that it is practiced.
I realize that the place to begin developing the habit of initiative is in the small, commonplace things connected with my daily work, therefore I will go at my work each day as if I were doing it solely for the purpose of developing this necessary habit of initiative.
I understand that by practicing this habit of taking the initiative in connection with my daily work I will be not only developing that habit, but I will also be attracting the attention of those who will place greater value on my services as a result of this practice.
Signed..........................................................
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Grab Lesson Five: Initiative and Leadership by Napoleon Hill.
Class dismissed.
Until next time,
Peace Out, and - Namasté!
To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,
Richard
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