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Think and Grow Rich: The REAL Secret to Financial Freedom | Finance Hacked
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Welcome to Finance Hacked!
Are you tired of empty motivational quotes that don't lead to real change? Many people dismiss "success studies" as fluff, but what if there's ONE book that holds the genuine keys to breaking free from the crowd and achieving financial freedom?
In this video, we dive deep into Napoleon Hill's timeless classic, "Think and Grow Rich" - a book that has guided top billionaires like Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Edison, and even U.S. Presidents. Forget the superficial advice; the world's most successful people possess a powerful way of thinking, and this book reveals their secrets.
Learn about the incredible story of how Napoleon Hill spent 30 years interviewing the world's most successful individuals (without pay!) to uncover the universal laws of success.
Discover why simply wanting money isn't enough and explore challenging perspectives, like the importance of valuing and learning from the wealthy (a view that might shock you!).
We'll break down the powerful Six Steps outlined in the book that I personally followed, changing my destiny from starting with zero to building working capital. These steps are more practical and effective than you might think!
Plus, understand why mastering "sales" is crucial in every aspect of life, not just business, and how you can use this skill to create opportunities, even online.
Finally, we touch upon the book's ultimate secret: unlocking your creative imagination and "sixth sense" by learning from the greatest minds in history.
This video is for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone serious about building wealth and achieving financial freedom. If you're ready to challenge your mindset and learn principles that have created countless success stories, watch this video to the end.
Key takeaways from this video:
Why "Think and Grow Rich" is different from typical motivational books.
The controversial mindset shift required for wealth (Hate Poverty, Love Wealth?).
The true value of admiring and learning from successful people.
The Six Practical Steps from Think and Grow Rich to set and achieve financial goals.
Why "selling" is a fundamental life skill and how to leverage it.
Tapping into your intuition and imagination for problem-solving.
If you don't want to miss out on content that can genuinely help you build wealth, please subscribe to Finance Hacked for free and turn
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FINANCE HACKED team would like to thank the audience for their interest and support of the Channel in the past time. We hope that the content of FINANCE HACKED will bring long-term value to the audience.
All contributions to support the development of the Channel, dear viewers can send to:
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- Wise: https://wise.com/pay/me/hongnguyenphuongd
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- Gmail: financehacked@gmail.com.
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Welcome to Finance Hacked!
Are you tired of empty motivational quotes that don't lead to real change? Many people dismiss "success studies" as fluff, but what if there's ONE book that holds the genuine keys to breaking free from the crowd and achieving financial freedom?
In this video, we dive deep into Napoleon Hill's timeless classic, "Think and Grow Rich" - a book that has guided top billionaires like Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Edison, and even U.S. Presidents. Forget the superficial advice; the world's most successful people possess a powerful way of thinking, and this book reveals their secrets.
Learn about the incredible story of how Napoleon Hill spent 30 years interviewing the world's most successful individuals (without pay!) to uncover the universal laws of success.
Discover why simply wanting money isn't enough and explore challenging perspectives, like the importance of valuing and learning from the wealthy (a view that might shock you!).
We'll break down the powerful Six Steps outlined in the book that I personally followed, changing my destiny from starting with zero to building working capital. These steps are more practical and effective than you might think!
Plus, understand why mastering "sales" is crucial in every aspect of life, not just business, and how you can use this skill to create opportunities, even online.
Finally, we touch upon the book's ultimate secret: unlocking your creative imagination and "sixth sense" by learning from the greatest minds in history.
This video is for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone serious about building wealth and achieving financial freedom. If you're ready to challenge your mindset and learn principles that have created countless success stories, watch this video to the end.
Key takeaways from this video:
Why "Think and Grow Rich" is different from typical motivational books.
The controversial mindset shift required for wealth (Hate Poverty, Love Wealth?).
The true value of admiring and learning from successful people.
The Six Practical Steps from Think and Grow Rich to set and achieve financial goals.
Why "selling" is a fundamental life skill and how to leverage it.
Tapping into your intuition and imagination for problem-solving.
If you don't want to miss out on content that can genuinely help you build wealth, please subscribe to Finance Hacked for free and turn
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00:00Think and Grow Rich, Finance Hacked warmly greets you and our dear friends.
00:06These days, many people believe that those chicken soup for the soul
00:10quote spreading online are more empty talk than real advice.
00:15You read them and nothing really changes.
00:19Those repeated lines easily win sympathy from people who feel weak.
00:24Take the saying failure is the mother of success.
00:28Most people don't think deeply about what it really means.
00:32They just want a bit of comfort until their subconscious actually starts seeking failure.
00:39Some even lump all these sayings together and call it success studies.
00:44If that's what success studies means, it makes me feel queasy,
00:49but there's one book that helped me break free from the crowd of poor people.
00:53When you see it, you might be as surprised as I was.
00:59Not only top American billionaires like Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Edison, and sales legend Joe Girard,
01:07but even two US presidents have been loyal readers of this book.
01:11Why?
01:13Do you know what the most valuable wealth and resource the world's leaders own is?
01:20It's their way of thinking and this book called Think and Grow Rich.
01:25I'm not exaggerating when I say that in this world you could read no other book but this one.
01:32Why?
01:34Because humans have only two problems, survival and reproduction.
01:38In today's capitalist society, if you want to do either well, you must have money.
01:46So where does money come from?
01:49You have to learn from people who have actually made it.
01:53But if you ask them, will they share all their secrets?
01:58Suppose you asked 500 billionaires, would their combined advice really be reliable?
02:03The author, Napoleon Hill, started as a poor reporter.
02:09One day he went to interview steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie.
02:14Carnegie asked him, will you work for me?
02:18I'll introduce you to the richest, most powerful, and most famous people in the world.
02:25Go interview them and write a book about the traits they share.
02:28When enough successful people reveal the same traits, those traits become the laws of success.
02:37This will be a great work because you can help people born into poverty like you to learn how to become rich.
02:44But there's a catch, you won't be paid.
02:48Normally anyone would think that was a scam, right?
02:51Yet Hill not only agreed but worked for 30 years without pay.
02:57He did what other poor people couldn't.
03:00He worked without caring about money.
03:03Because of this, his book became the root of success studies,
03:07helping countless poor children achieve financial freedom, including me,
03:12once broken starting from zero.
03:15When I read this book, I felt like the world lay at my feet.
03:19And believe me, you'll never learn all it has to teach.
03:25Even after reading it a hundred times, each time brings new insights.
03:31It's like a secret martial arts manual.
03:34Once your inner strength deepens and your vision expands,
03:37you'll see that every successful money-making strategy in the world can be traced back to this book.
03:44Infinite in variety, yet never departing from its source.
03:49But if you truly get it, one reading is enough,
03:52if you watch this video to the end,
03:55I believe I can lower the threshold to your financial freedom.
03:59This channel shares wealth-building mindsets for entrepreneurs, investors, and the wealthy.
04:06If you don't want to miss this kind of content,
04:10please subscribe to my free channel and turn on notifications.
04:15First, what I'm about to say may upend many people's values,
04:20but it's fundamental, hate poverty.
04:23Love wealth
04:24You must listen patiently to build a strong foundation.
04:29We must always oppose the poor and only respect and support the rich.
04:34Actually, I could just say love the rich without saying hate the poor,
04:39to avoid offending people.
04:41But did you notice that 97% of the world sympathizes with the weak while hating the strong?
04:48That's absurd.
04:51Many people complain about being poor,
04:54then wake early and work late to make money,
04:57yet curse their bosses behind their backs.
05:00They lose money in the stock market and then blame those who fleeced them.
05:05They feel hurt and gather with other underdogs in online forums to comfort each other.
05:12Tell me, can people like that become bosses?
05:16Can they become stock market wizards?
05:19The saddest thing is that they secretly want to be rich,
05:22but curse the very rich they envy.
05:25How can you become someone you despise?
05:28So the first thing we need to do is admire those better than us,
05:32people who have already achieved results.
05:36Luck always turns.
05:39One day, when you become rich, you'll be part of the wealthy group.
05:44You'll enter their world, and surely you'll want their approval, right?
05:50So today, do you want to start by valuing and respecting them?
05:55Do you want to support truly useful knowledge?
05:59For example,
06:00If you like my video, YouTube will recommend more similar videos,
06:11content that really can help you.
06:13If you genuinely admire the rich,
06:15the universe will naturally bring rich people into your life.
06:20But that admiration must come from your heart,
06:23not just your words.
06:24Sometimes I see people praising on the surface while inside feeling jealousy, envy, or resentment.
06:33You can't hide that.
06:36For example,
06:37Today I took my parents to buy a house,
06:40many people looked at me with contempt.
06:44They thought because my father was already rich,
06:46I must have been born into wealth.
06:48They said,
06:50Big deal, rich families always go bankrupt by the third generation.
06:57But I'm not a second generation rich kid.
07:01Every dollar I've earned came from scraping myself off the ground.
07:06They don't know that,
07:07so they're biased and spend their lives watching others buy houses.
07:11In fact, being born into a good situation is a skill in itself.
07:17If you weren't lucky enough to be born there,
07:20that's on you, right?
07:22What I really want to say is that the second generation rich kids you see going broke on TV
07:28or in the news are the minority.
07:31The second generation officials and second generation money people I know are so hardworking
07:37they make me feel my own mind is nowhere near theirs.
07:42For example,
07:43I admire Ho Yaokwon,
07:44the son of the Macau casino king.
07:48In theory,
07:49he didn't have to lift a finger,
07:51he earns in one second what you make in a month.
07:55Yet he won gold medals at the UK Math Olympiad five years in a row,
08:00became the youngest person ever to earn a master's in finance at MIT,
08:05plays guitar and piano and masters financial languages.
08:11Tell me,
08:12if your father were a casino king,
08:14could you achieve what he did?
08:17I certainly couldn't.
08:19If you haven't had money,
08:21how can you work harder when you finally get it?
08:25Right?
08:27So why do people keep pushing themselves?
08:30Because from childhood they've had a different education than we did,
08:34their teachers taught them to be bosses.
08:38While our schools trained us to be employees.
08:43So why should we befriend those second generation rich kids?
08:48Because they were born holding the golden key,
08:51it's a huge advantage.
08:53When you get close to lucky people,
08:56you absorb their lucky energy and become luckier yourself.
08:59It's simple.
09:02When I negotiate business with second generation rich kids,
09:07what they say,
09:08their understanding of commerce,
09:10those are things I can't learn from books,
09:13because their fathers taught them those lessons after a lifetime of experience.
09:17It's like playing chess,
09:20you start as a novice,
09:22but if you play with a master for a month,
09:24unless you're mentally challenged,
09:26you'll become a master yourself because you've learned their thinking.
09:31If you don't know any rich people right now,
09:34start by studying or reading their strategies,
09:37copy how they think,
09:38from early on,
09:40I understood that I had to thank the rich from my heart,
09:43because they created real examples of success
09:46that showed me those dreams can become reality.
09:50That's loving the rich.
09:52So why hate the poor?
09:55Negative poor people will always pour cold water on you.
10:00They drag your energy down to their level.
10:04Do you know what I do?
10:05If someone I deal with has lower value than me
10:09and criticizes my business,
10:11I automatically remove them from my life.
10:16You might ask,
10:17aren't you afraid they might be right?
10:19I'll tell you the truth.
10:21If they were really that capable,
10:23why are they poorer than me?
10:26They attack me because their methods don't make money.
10:29Should I become poor like them?
10:32The worst thing in people
10:34is not knowing their own limits.
10:37Sometimes I see people insult a famous star
10:40for getting plastic surgery,
10:42then turn to discuss it with me,
10:44so I insult them back.
10:47By what right do you criticize someone richer than you?
10:51You could get plastic surgery yourself,
10:54but would you make the same money?
10:55A person who doesn't focus on themselves
10:58is essentially useless.
10:59You can't gain anything from them
11:02because they have no value themselves.
11:06And those low-value people
11:08could be your family or your partner.
11:11You can't choose that.
11:14I love a Taiwanese author named Lamton Hwin.
11:17When he was eight,
11:20he decided he'd grow up to be a great writer.
11:23His father asked him what a writer was.
11:27He said someone who sits at home,
11:30writes words,
11:31sends them out,
11:32and gets money back.
11:34His father flew into a rage,
11:37slapped him,
11:38and said,
11:39you idiot,
11:39there's no such easy job.
11:41If it existed,
11:44I'd be doing it,
11:45not you.
11:47You're too young to daydream.
11:50Later,
11:51he told his father another dream,
11:53to travel the world.
11:56His father scolded him again,
11:58you'll never go that far in your life.
12:01Then Hwin said something
12:03that almost made me cry when I read it,
12:05my life belongs to me,
12:07and no one,
12:08not even my father,
12:10has the right to decide it.
12:13That line touches the heart of anyone
12:15who started from nothing.
12:18Because none of us can be shaken,
12:20not even by our own parents.
12:24Hwin soon became famous,
12:26made money,
12:27and left Taiwan.
12:29The first place he went was Egypt,
12:31where he stayed alone for three months.
12:35When he realized that everything happening to us
12:37has a reason and helps us grow,
12:40I'm sure he never lived an ordinary life again,
12:43none of us get to choose where we're born.
12:46Family,
12:47classmates,
12:48even teachers can pour cold water on you.
12:53When you can't escape that yet,
12:55maybe the universe is testing you.
12:58When I was young,
13:00I liked being alone.
13:01At school,
13:03they made us do pointless group tasks.
13:07I thought,
13:08if I do well alone,
13:09why share the credit?
13:12So I annoyed many classmates and was bullied.
13:16But I realized school tries to train you to be useless.
13:20Even after they graduate,
13:22people still look for teamwork,
13:24even if they can't do anything alone,
13:27because they've been fooled.
13:28They stay in the herd like sheep.
13:32I chose to be a lone wolf.
13:36True collaboration doesn't need to be taught,
13:38it comes naturally when you're capable.
13:42Two strong people working together,
13:44each doing their part well,
13:46is better than hundreds gathering and not knowing what to do.
13:49So we just need to push our own abilities to the limit.
13:55I was isolated as a child,
13:57but that didn't matter.
14:00What others say is their business,
14:02how we interpret it is ours.
14:05We decide every definition in life.
14:09Those who laughed at me for starting a business
14:11now prove their own foolishness,
14:14in Think and Grow Rich,
14:15there's a story about a man who dreamed of finding gold.
14:18He borrowed lots of money to dig for it.
14:23When he hit a layer of dry rock and found nothing,
14:26he gave up.
14:28Then another man bought the mine cheaply,
14:31dug just 30 more centimeters,
14:33and discovered a huge gold vein.
14:37Many inspirational quotes come from this story,
14:40such a success may be only one step away.
14:43But few think more deeply,
14:46why can we persist so foolishly in our dreams?
14:51Despite countless obstacles and people's scorn?
14:55The book answers,
14:56because those of us are driven by a burning desire for our dream.
15:01When desire is strong enough,
15:03we develop jealousy and ambition,
15:06which help us overcome natural traits like laziness,
15:09fear, and self-doubt.
15:11Before a fierce desire,
15:14those things are nothing.
15:16Where does that desire come from?
15:19I studied many mystical traditions east and west.
15:24All prayer rituals include a step called making a wish.
15:29I researched famous temples
15:30and found their wishing methods are very similar.
15:33This book also describes six crucial steps I followed exactly.
15:39Fix in your mind a clear dollar amount you want.
15:43Saying I want lots of money won't work.
15:47Be specific.
15:49For example,
15:50I decided I wanted one million dollars
15:53because I thought that would let me quit my job
15:55and live comfortably.
15:57Ask yourself what you are willing to give to get that money.
16:00There's no free lunch in this world.
16:04I promised myself that while my classmates played,
16:08I would study money-making,
16:10take various courses,
16:12read only finance books,
16:14work part-time,
16:15and start a side business,
16:17set a deadline.
16:18I gave myself two years until graduation
16:23to make one million dollars,
16:25create a clear plan and start at once,
16:28whether or not you feel fully prepared.
16:31I studied wholesale,
16:33buy low,
16:34sell high.
16:36When customers placed orders,
16:39they paid a deposit.
16:41I used that money to buy goods from suppliers.
16:45Lacking industry knowledge,
16:46I used income from part-time jobs
16:49to find suppliers,
16:51treated them to meals,
16:52and joined young entrepreneur groups
16:54to meet owners expanding overseas.
16:58I supplied their retail needs.
17:02After the first order,
17:03I thought,
17:04if I repeat this,
17:05I'll get a second and a third order.
17:08That was my plan.
17:10Write a concise statement of your goal and plan.
17:13My statement was,
17:15I will keep learning about entrepreneurship and money-making.
17:20By e-month,
17:21year,
17:22I will earn one million dollars through repeating my wholesale model.
17:27Read that statement aloud twice daily.
17:31Once before sleep and once on waking,
17:34imagining,
17:35and feeling you already have the money,
17:37these six steps may sound silly or superstitious,
17:40but I followed them foolishly and still use them.
17:45Though I ended up with one hundred thousand dollars,
17:48I saw my destiny change.
17:51I believed because I really believed,
17:54and lost nothing.
17:56Others graduated still burdened by tuition debt,
18:00I had one hundred thousand dollar working capital.
18:04Later I realized those steps work on the same principle
18:07as the law of attraction.
18:10First you wish,
18:11then you believe,
18:13then you receive.
18:15You must imagine the result
18:17and convince yourself you already have it.
18:20How to convince yourself?
18:23Gratitude,
18:24being thankful makes you happy.
18:27For details,
18:29watch my earlier videos.
18:32You may wonder where my step four statement came from.
18:35I learned at college male development classes
18:38and entrepreneur meetups
18:40that every rich person there actively marketed themselves
18:43and shared their values,
18:45I used to think those actions were mere sales pitches,
18:49even distasteful.
18:51But after joining many events,
18:53I realized that hating self-promotion
18:56was my biggest barrier to wealth.
18:59Others gained many business opportunities that way,
19:02while I sat alone at meetings,
19:05ate,
19:05then went home without doing anything.
19:09I missed many chances without realizing it.
19:13Later I learned that 90% of the world's famous people
19:16started in business,
19:18so from my last video,
19:20I shared that whatever job you do,
19:22in daily life we're all in sales or business.
19:26If you're single and chasing someone,
19:29aren't you marketing yourself?
19:30Or if you want your child
19:33to finish homework before going out,
19:35you must persuade them,
19:37make them happily agree,
19:39so even if you learn nothing else from this video,
19:42I hope you realize you're always selling
19:45and whether you make money
19:46depends on how well you market yourself.
19:50Even selling air,
19:51you must know how to sell
19:53and at a good price.
19:56People call selling bad for basic reasons,
19:59maybe in the past someone used
20:01every trick to sell to you
20:03and you feel cheated.
20:06Those experiences were unpleasant,
20:09but their past,
20:10they don't help you now.
20:13If you label an entire industry
20:14because of a few bad actors
20:16and refuse to learn sales skills,
20:19you'll only live day-to-day in an office job.
20:21Even if you want a promotion,
20:25you must sell yourself to your boss.
20:28If you hate doing that while others can,
20:30you'll be trampled underfoot
20:32or maybe you tried sales and were rejected,
20:35you said something wrong
20:37and now fear rejection.
20:39That's understandable,
20:41the feeling is unpleasant.
20:44So most people choose desk work
20:46over face-to-face sales.
20:48If so, why not make money online?
20:53If you like gaming,
20:54record your gameplay,
20:56make tutorial videos,
20:58just talk to your computer like I do,
21:00no need to show your face.
21:03Post on YouTube,
21:05when people watch,
21:06you earn ad revenue.
21:09When you have viewers,
21:10smart businesses will seek you out
21:12because you control their throat.
21:14They want to advertise
21:17where the biggest audiences are,
21:19YouTube.
21:21That's marketing.
21:23You need almost no capital
21:24and failure costs nothing.
21:28If you succeed,
21:29you can quit your job
21:30and use your income to travel the world.
21:33I think the most fascinating part
21:35of Think and Grow Rich
21:36is the final chapter,
21:38the miraculous sixth sense
21:39and creative imagination
21:41are the ways into the temple of wisdom.
21:43That is the ultimate secret.
21:47When we face a problem we can't solve,
21:50we can find real-life experts to advise us.
21:54But do you know how far Napoleon Hill went?
21:58He invited Jesus Christ,
22:00Paul the Apostle,
22:02Galileo,
22:03Aristotle,
22:04Plato,
22:05Socrates,
22:06Confucius,
22:07and Buddha to advise him.
22:09The greatest minds in history
22:12were his consultants.
22:15He didn't solve problems himself,
22:17he handed them to these figures
22:19in his imagination.
22:21Sounds crazy, right?
22:24They died centuries ago,
22:26how could they advise him?
22:29Through his imagination.
22:32Whenever he faced a difficult choice,
22:34he imagined talking to these great people,
22:37why could he do this?
22:38Because their ideas are recorded in books.
22:43I've read countless books,
22:45most I've forgotten.
22:48But about twelve truly useful ones
22:50sit on my office shelf
22:51and I read them over and over.
22:55Can I recite them by heart?
22:57No.
22:59But the author's ideas
23:01are deeply imprinted in my subconscious.
23:05Whenever I face a choice,
23:06say someone invites me to dinner,
23:09I ask,
23:10if I were Li Kei Xing,
23:11would I go to work or to dinner?
23:14Or in business negotiations,
23:17if I were Donald Trump,
23:18how would I negotiate?
23:21Or when I pursue someone,
23:22if I were Sun Tzu,
23:24when and how would I attack?
23:27What's my opponent's strength?
23:28Can I win without bringing reinforcements?
23:33I always put myself
23:35in those giant shoes to think.
23:38That was my early training.
23:41Later I didn't even think consciously.
23:45My sixth sense and intuition guided me.
23:48Those intuitions come from
23:50training my subconscious this way.
23:52I haven't re-read the book in a long time,
23:55if not for making this video,
23:57I wouldn't read it again.
23:59The author wrote,
24:01I had nothing.
24:03By accepting Carnegie's invitation,
24:06I interviewed the world's richest
24:07and found a secret.
24:10That secret made me a billionaire.
24:13He also wrote that
24:15if you discover the secret while reading,
24:17you don't need to read on.
24:19It might appear in the introduction,
24:22chapter one,
24:23the middle,
24:24or the last chapter.
24:26But it's definitely in this book.
24:30Do you understand what that means?
24:32If you finish this book and gain nothing,
24:34your reading was useless.
24:37But if you read seriously,
24:39as if talking with yourself through it,
24:41suddenly you'll realize
24:42that what you learn may not matter
24:44as much as what you discover by yourself.
24:47That's wisdom,
24:49not just knowledge.
24:52Knowledge is compiled by others.
24:54Wisdom is your own thinking system
24:56that lets you create endless new knowledge.
24:59I hope you all reach that level.
25:02Time is limited,
25:03so I'll end here.
25:05I've shared free knowledge
25:07on becoming rich,
25:08an entrepreneur,
25:09an investor,
25:10and achieving financial freedom.
25:13If you don't want to miss out,
25:15follow my channel,
25:17turn on notifications,
25:20and share this video widely.
25:23I sincerely wish everyone
25:25who likes this video
25:26soon reaches financial freedom.
25:29If you find one or two useful lines here
25:32that help you live better,
25:34I'll be satisfied.
25:36Goodbye and see you next time.
25:38Bye and see you next time.
25:40Bye and see you next time.