This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Let me read a brief biography.

This is a biography for Napoleon Hill, born October 26, 1883.

He died in 1970, an American author in the area of the New Thought Movement

and was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal success literature.

His most famous work,

Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, is one of the best-selling books of all time. At the time

of his death in 1970, it had sold 20 million copies. Hill's works examined the power of personal

beliefs and the role they play in personal success.

Most of his books describe principles to achieve success.

I've never read this book.

I've heard about it a lot.

I've seen people reference it.

I might have picked it up and started to read it.

I think the only reason I did not is it seemed like I had read most of these messages

and they're very nice messages in other books, other works.

Seth Godin, for one, seems to be clearly influenced by Napoleon Hill.

Maybe I'm completely off base, Seth,

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