The author says that he was unable to find reference to this concept in textbooks Mind System Secrets Review and essays on the human mind. However, the idea that some kind of mental internet or cosmic consciousness exists has certainly been around for a long time. Perhaps, this is not quite the same thing as the master mind but it is certainly in the same territory. Furthermore, I can also remember someone, at some time, referencing the remarks of Jesus, "when two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst (Matt 18:20" as providing support to this same idea.
You will probably be aware that Napoleon Hill's study and attempt to come up with a complete philosophy of success was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world at the time. Hill apparently learned about the master mind idea directly from Andrew Carnegie and, in this first chapter, he states that the ability to group people together for the purpose of benefitting from the master mind was Carnegie's secret weapon.
Essentially, Hill says that when two (or more) people are grouped together, a third mind is always formed, but it might not be a master mind. Instead, a super-consciousness which is the very opposite of a master mind, negative in spirit, can instead emerge. Hill is at pains to assert that the individual minds that make up the master mind must be in a state of perfect harmony for the mastermind to be created and he spends quite a bit of time emphasising that point.
The important quality that is required of effective leaders, according to Hill, is the ability to group people who are capable of blending their mental ability in order to create a master mind from which to benefit. This is the principle which, Hill says, was responsible for the accumulation of the Carnegie fortune. Much of remainder of the first chapter concerns his attempts to justify the basic idea that it is possible to transmit and receive thoughts.
No comments:
Post a Comment