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NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

Knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be con-
verted into POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by expressing those
plans in terms of ACTION. Examination of the three major sources of knowledge
will readily disclose the difficulty an individual would have, if he depended upon
his efforts alone, in assembling knowledge and expressing it through definite
plans in terms of ACTION. If his plans are comprehensive, and if they contem-
plate large proportions, he must, generally, induce others to cooperate with him,
before he can inject into them the necessary element of POWER.

GAINING POWER THROUGH THE "MASTER MIND"

The "Master Mind" maybe defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in
a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite
purpose."

No individual may have great power without availing himself of the "Master
Mind." In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the creation of PLANS
for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. If you carry
out these instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimina-
tion in the selection of your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been
half-way reached, even before you begin to recognize it.

So you may better understand the "intangible" potentialities of power available
to you, through a properly chosen "Master Mind" group, we will here explain the
two characteristics of the Master Mind principle, one of which is economic in
nature, and the other psychic. The economic feature is obvious. Economic ad-
vantages may be created by any person who surrounds himself with the advice,
counsel, and personal cooperation of a group of men who are willing to lend him
wholehearted aid, in a spirit of PERFECT HARMONY. This form of cooperative
alliance has been the basis of nearly every great fortune. Your understanding of
this great truth may definitely determine your financial status.

The psychic phase of the Master Mind principle is much more abstract, much
more difficult to comprehend, because it has reference to the spiritual forces with
which the human race, as a whole, is not well acquainted. You may catch a signifi-
cant suggestion from this statement: "No two minds ever come together without,
thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a
third mind."

Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the whole uni-
verse, energy and matter. It is a well known fact that matter maybe broken down