Napoleon Hill - 10 Rules of Self Discipline YOU MUST SEE

I'm going to give you ten rules for profitable self-discipline these are rules of my own making they're very homely some of them but they'll be very helpful and number one is keep cool when other people get hot I know you can agree with that one but I'm not too sure that you'll always live up to it we are inclined all of us to get hot when the other fella gets hot stay angry thinks when the other fella starts saying angry things I was in the hole of the president of a big Electric Power Company one evening when there came a storm and he called up one of his hit men to go out to take care of an emergency that happened as a result of that storm it was on Sunday evening the man was gone about two hours and when he came back he came up on the front porch of the home of this man and called him out on the porch I never heard a man get such a tongue-lashing in all my life as this president of the Electric Power come to get so you blankety-blank like you think because you're the president of companies blankety blank blank and I'm just as good as you are blank the bank but oh it was terrific I only heard one side of the conversation because there was only one side of it one man of doing all the talking and one man was doing all the listening and therefore this had been going on for fully three minutes the other man ran out of wins and had nothing more to say he was mad you see because they called him out on this stormy night I heard the president close that there weren't he came back and he just smiled said why the man was a little bit hot was they that's all he said a little bit hot was I expected in a moment to hear a fist began to fly out there but you see there was a man who had risen to great heights of achievement financially and he had done it by a self-discipline self-discipline in every respect and he didn't post a long workmen who had been temporarily unbalanced by his anger to throw him off balance and make him stoop to that level he just did propose to have that done and you'll notice when you get into an argument of any month and you're after you if you don't watch yourself that if you just remain silent while the other fellows bowing over his top he finally gets the point where he's got no more talk to blue then if you want to get in a few words of your own that's somebody a good place to do it it's a mighty fine thing in two words that you get in are not the kind of words you've been hearing in other words you can say something back kind in return it's a far better for the other fella and far better for you it shows you to be the bigger of the two persons now anybody can get mad and blow his top because of what somebody does it says and that's happening all the time but the truly big man the man who is in charge of himself he doesn't allow anybody to draw him down to that level of a street brawl or of an argument and harsh words unless he wants to do it and if he's truly a big man he doesn't want to do it number two remember there are three sides to all arguments we ordinarily think there are two sides story but they're not the three as your side as the other fellow side and then there's the right side which is usually about in the middle of the two viewpoints remember that when you get into an argument with the other fellow don't assume that he's always at fault maybe you're partly at fault too maybe neither one is totally at fault the chances are and all of the arguments I've ever heard both parties were partly to blame in one way or another I have never yet heard an argument where one party entirely was it to blame although I suspect there are such arguments at times number three never give directives to a subordinate when you're angry if the matter is urgent then cool off quickly number four treat all people as nearly as possible as if there were rich relatives from whom you expect it to be remembered in their will do that treat all people as if they were rich relatives from whom you expected it heard something out there there and you can do that you know if you had a rich relative that had a million dollars he's going to leave to you you suspected he was going to it wouldn't make much difference what he said it did he would never throw you off balance you'd never talk back to him would you of course you wouldn't it be quite silly he did that keeping quiet for a million dollars it seems to me to be a very easy price to pay number five look for the seed of an equivalent benefit in every unpleasant circumstances which you meet no matter what the unpleasant circumstances make it this hard to discipline yourself so that you look for that seed of an equivalent and you start looking connection with a circumstance don't wait a week or two they'll all work yourself up a pod start writing and why you stand in to lessen the blow it'll lessen the heard of the wound whatever it happens to be if you start looking for that seed of an equivalent benefit and number six learn the almost forgotten art of asking questions that then listening to the answers instead of getting the other fella told off it gives you an awful lot of satisfaction when you're angry get the other fella told us I know the temptation is very great to do that I know we're gonna have been there many times don't do it be bigger than that this is what the other fella has to say and then when the somebody makes a statement that you're not sure about learn to ask this one question it's one of the most important questions in life it'll serve more purposes than any other short question that I can figure out when somebody makes a statement that you're not sure about or that you doubt or this your question eske forward question how do you know and then wait for an answer it seems squirm oftentimes there is no answer people make wild statements that they came back up and instead of getting into an argument and making an incident out of the matter and getting yourself worked up into an argument the other folks do in his own fact by putting him over the bow but that question how do you know I had a virtue man in my class once who is very I just don't know how to describe me he was a fanatic you might say on the subject of religion and that he was sure that he knew exactly what was going to happen to me after death he said so in the one's certain terms not in the class but in the private conversation he raved and ranted for quite a little while about it and when he got through I said how do you know parson and that really put him over the barrel so that's the way I feel about that's my faith I said well now having a belief and faith is one thing but having evidence is something else again how do you know what's gonna happen to me at RADA I don't know and I doubt that you do how do you know well he never did give me a satisfactory answer there are a lot of questions that come up in life in connections which if you'll ask that one thing how do you know you'll find that the other fellow will be off balance and you don't need to make an incident out of what he says you don't need to get mad at what it says 7 never say or do anything which may influence another person without first asking yourself this question will it benefit him or her and if it will hurt him don't do it don't say anything or do anything that would hurt another person under any circumstances no matter how much he may deserve exercise self-discipline don't do that because if you heard another man you're going to hurt yourself 10 times as much at least because that hurt will come back on you I don't care who you are or what circumstances you're working under or living under if you heard another person you'll be hurt ten times as much and if the hurt doesn't come immediately the rate of inner stone that is compound interest on compound interest and it'll be a hundred times as great if you wait long enough because everything that you do - or for another person you do - or for yourself there is no escape from that that's just as much a law as the law of gravitation which everyone understands you know that if you stepped over the top of this building no matter what your mind that it was haunt your belief happened to be if you stepped over the top of this building and violated the law of gravitation that you hit the ground under you die in a very few seconds and this law which brings you back that's what you send out is just as inevitable just as inexorable as the law of gravitation or any other nature's law office number eight learn the difference between friendly analysis and unfriendly criticism then decide which you wish to live by in your relations with others now a friendly analysis is one thing and is welcomed by most sensible people I don't object to friendly analysis of anything that I do even though it's very unfavorable if it's friendly analysis I like it because I can improve by it but if it's unfriendly criticism very obviously unfriendly criticism not analysis well then I resent it I wouldn't be human if I didn't how can I tell whether it's friendly analysis or unfriendly criticism how would you go about telling a lot of ways you can tell you can tell by the your relationship to the person who's making it whether it's friendly or unfriendly to begin with if it's an enemy obviously I just got it right over the bath because you almost know it's gonna be unfriendly a criticism I could tell loss over the tone of voice in which he does it well the manner in which he does it cause a man who engages in unfriendly criticism generally uses a few epithets along with it but clearly indicates that he's biased if you have self-discipline you're not going to be influenced but that kind of a person and number nine remember that a good leader in any calling is one who can take orders as cheerfully as you give them a number ten last but not least remember that tolerance in human relations is just as important as tolerance in the operation of mechanics

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