Book Summary - The Science of Getting Rich Posted on March 11, 2013 by alvaro Polini: 0 3 votes For anybody who likes learning but doesn’t have time, Ill be dedicating a few posts to backs! summaries. Ive been reading ¢ latin the past years and I'd like to share what Ive learned. As my engineering mind likes bullets a lot, there will be plenty! So, without further ado, let's start with the first book summary: Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich [1910] * Life = body (health: physical development) = mind (wealth: mental development) + sout (lave: service to others). All 3 are NEEDED in order to reach praper fulfilment + Getting rich = doing things ina certain way (following certain laws)-> thinking things in a certain way -> everything comes from a thought, thoughts become things -> don't fear nor doubt 195 | create what J wan * Riches don't come from the environment: even if people are living in the same neighbourhood, doing the same business, having the same talents there are still rich and poor -> anly doing things # certain way makes rich (law of CAUSE & EFFECT) -> SCIENCE of getting rich © Doing what you like, where you like, the talents you have, developing/choosing a growing market for your business: itall helps you in getting rich butis not sufficient to be rich. * Desire of riches = capacity for larger life-seeking fulfilment (unexpressed possibility coming to action). Nature does it continually, when a plant or an animal grows: i's natural to desire riches (the purpose of nature is the advancement and enfoldment of life). + Extreme selfishness is os wrong as extreme altruism: be wealthy in body + mind = soul, in BALANCE. # ‘The worldis a place of ABU N DAN CE: there's no need of competition, just be a crestor, The supply is not limited. «Inthe past, great riches came by systematizing and organizing an industry stee! & oll in the past, information now} * Give to others more value than you take from them in cash -> generate value. Apply the sme to employees: pay them LESS than you get out from them in value (or you'd be destroying value} * Be clear and express what | want to the universe: visualize. + Seek harmony with the universe -> GRATITUDE towards the universe (or god, or infinite power or however you wanna call i). + Surround myself with the best Desires: very CLEAR mental picture & linger upon it while visualizing. ** It’s ike a compass. You follow where it says the north is. The north is your desire when you visualize > if you don't visualize it there's no mare north and the needle moves randomly but you still follow > be clear and hold on your thought! © A Vision exists because of a Purpose (desire), which holds because of Esith. Apply my will ONLY to myself, not to others. Don't force them to do things. Dont take, give. And they'l give back. ‘= Use my will only te think and do things in the right way in order to achieve my goals. No more is needed. ‘= Only put positive impression on what I want in order to reach it fester (no doubt nor disbelief) -> don't think of poverty, iiness, war, etc. Think of wealth, hesith, peace, etc ‘+ Have pictures of wealth in my mind. Help the poor by getting rich myself and being a model for them. The poor don't need charity, they need inspiration => get rich and show them now to do the same. Get rich by creation, NOT competition. ‘© Think of the poor as people who are about to get rich, and should be congratulated instead of pitied, ‘+ Make the most of myself to help the world the greatest. Solve my own problems and get rich: 1. Visualize clearly (thought) with purpose and faith 2, Act in a certain way: stick to my purpose, with faith. Combine action with thought: # Thought: how things are brought to me (vision, purpose & faith draw things towards me}; * Action: how I receive what | thought (actions make forces move me towards the things | went), 3, Act now, not in the post or the future. And think in the NOW os wel, not in the future. Don't divell upon the past os it's gone: | can only act where | am now, and an people ond things within reach. Think on what | can do NOW co get me closer NOW to what / desire for the future, Hold the thought of what | want with purpose and faith, but act now. 4, CREATIVE MIND: thought with a fixed purpose + act now. ‘+ Progress = to fill MORE than the present place I'm holding now. Only successful days get me what want. Day of feilure =| don't do what | should have done today => don't overwork but do something everyday towards my goal -> do only the few effective things, but efficiently -> put all my power in every act, with the purpose to move towards a larger life ‘= Business for me: the one in which I have natural abilities (although it's not sufficient to get rich). Abilities are just TOOLS, but they need to be used in the proper way! Otherwise (if! don't have the abilities}, | need to make the tools (learn the abilities) along the way (i's harder, but notimpossible). ‘= Ican do whatever | want but doing what Im good at is simply easier. ‘Don't have a competitive mind, have a creative mind, © Ifin doubt, step back and refine your vi ion and faith. Never hurry (= mentality of the competitor. * Actions today: to do well and better what I'm doing, where I'm doing it (even if | wanna change ‘what fm doing in the future) -> GROWTH. ‘= Don’t brag about my success when I reach it, Just think of vi n, purpose, and ‘= If others think theyd grow by being with me, they! associate with me, otherwise they won't. * Lavof increase of life: man naturally wants te increase their life Hence, if lean increase the life of others and make them aware of it, ll get rich. Advancement at work: be too big for my workplace (but this is not enough) + know what | wanna do {power of purpose: vision, purpose, faith, gratitude -> action). ‘= Have an advancing mind: will to move forward with a purpose. But always think creatively (in order to have access to the super-conscious mind), not competitively. Never speak of failure nor fear. Always speak of advancement failure doesn't exist (it's just a learning experience, a proof that the vision wasn't strong enough). Have gratitude towards life.