June 20, 2025 • 52 mins
In this episode, Elena Apalkova and Paul Angelle delve into the nature of fear and strategies to overcome it. They discuss fear's historical context and practical methods to outwit it, identifying three main enemies: indecision, doubt, and fear. The conversation covers transforming fear into desire, the psychology of sales, and mastering thoughts via the subconscious. They share strategies to manage six basic fears, emphasizing self-discipline, emotional monitoring, and eliminating mental barriers. The episode wraps up with insights on empowerment through knowledge, self-analysis, and future book recommendations.
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Welcome.
Hello.
Hello.
Finally, we came to chapter 15.
That is the conclusion of our journey.
It was a long journey, and we learned so much.
And today, we will speak about this finalchapter, how to outwit the six ghosts of fear.
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Yeah.
And I wish this chapter would be the first onebecause it is so important.
And somehow Napoleon put it last one.
Maybe he thought that after this chapter, wehave to start again and revise what we learned
from chapter one.
Well, you know me.
I do not question Napoleon Hill's layout of thechapter order, but I I truly believe that this
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chapter logically would make sense to be thefirst chapter.
However, I don't know that we would properlyappreciate it at first, the way we do after
going through the whole journey.
I mean, the chapter is like a conclusion, butit's also a warning.
You know, it it's it's identifying the six,fundamental fears that that can sabotage the
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success.
And I like it because it's practical.
It's not just a conclusion.
It shows you how to overcome them.
So, you know, step one with any problem isidentifying the problem, and step two is having
a strategy to overcome it.
And he calls this how to outwit the six ghostsof fear.
Yes.
I Which Uh-huh.
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Yeah.
Words like outwit in the nineteen thirties wasvery clever and, you know, hilarious, I bet.
Yeah.
I think Napoleon put it last chapter because hewanted to make it first and encourage readers
to go again because this book definitely isnot, like, book which you read only once.
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One, you just one time you read just to haveoverview and to understanding the principles.
And then after you read it all, this is theright time to go again, start from chapter one
and really make sure that you implement everystep.
Yes.
That you you analyze your actions, not onlylearning, but really tap into that actions and
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get results and and mark your success, markimplementation of these principles.
It's a road map.
I mean, this book Muslims have the Koran.
Jews have the Torah.
Christians have the bible.
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Entrepreneurs have Think and Grow Rich.
You know, it's it's just one of those one ofthose compass type books that you can go back
to and go back to and and and make decisionsbased on what you learned in that book.
Maybe not the first time you read it.
Maybe the tenth time you read it.
Yes.
And as Napoleon said that before you can putany portion of this philosophy into successful
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use, your mind must be prepared to receive it.
Yes.
So when we go through all these principles, weprepare our mind to receive it.
And the preparation begins with study,analysis, and understanding of three enemies
which you shall have to clear out.
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Yes.
And these three enemies are indecision, doubt,and fear.
Well, fear is the big one because, you know youknow, the whole book, he's calling for the
state of mind so that, we can master success.
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But unless you eliminate fear, it doesn'tmatter how well you've developed your mastery
of the principles.
If you're afraid, it doesn't matter it doesn'tmatter how good you are at diving.
If you're afraid to jump off the diving board,all that all that training and all that
understanding doesn't matter.
You gotta overcome the fear.
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Yes.
This is highlighted here that the sixth sensewill never function while these three negatives
or any of them remain in your mind.
The members of this unholy trio are closelyrelated.
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And where one is found, the other two are closeat hand.
Well and fears I mean, fears kinda kinda trumpsall three.
It kinda includes all three, but you're right.
But they're nothing more than states of mind.
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I mean, fear along with the other one, it'sexternal.
It originates in your thoughts.
It isn't necessarily real.
But doesn't mean it's not powerful.
It doesn't mean it can't stop you.
But the the good news is it is internal.
And if it's internal, you can control it.
We have to you know, there are things we cancontrol and things we cannot control.
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And I think a lot of people spend too muchenergy worrying or being anxious about things
they have no control over.
While you have something like this that you canabsolutely con control.
But fear is controllable, and it's important toknow that because fear paralyzes initiative.
It kills self reliance, and it ruinsopportunities.
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Yes.
And indecision comes from fear.
Yes.
Indecision comes from fear, and, also, itbrings with itself doubt.
And Right.
When we want to be successful, we have tounderstand that fear is the state of mind, and
we have absolute control of our thoughts.
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It means that we can replace fear with havingdesire.
Yeah.
That having desire why, started from beginningof this book to find your burning desire.
Because when you have that burning desire, itwill help you focus on what you want instead of
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focusing on obstacles, fear, doubt, andindecisions.
Well, I I spent a lot of time in in sales, anda lot of the sales psychology, if you ever read
those books, they they highlight one thingthat's true.
People have a desire for gain.
Like, they want things, but they also have afear of loss.
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And that fear of loss is so much more powerful,and it's so much more controlling in their
decision making process that you have toreally, really amp up the desire for what they
want to overcome that much more powerful fearof losing.
And it's the fear of losing is one of thosethings people don't pay attention to because
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they don't think they have control of.
And they it's one of the few things we actuallyhave control of.
Yes.
And everything has price.
Yes.
Everything has price.
If we have big goal, we understand that we haveto pay something.
Yet we have to pay material by money or by timeor efforts.
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And we have to see the bigger picture.
It's not focusing what we are losing because weare not losing.
It's because it is just the the way how to getsomething bigger.
But if people are afraid on what they'relosing, they will never get where they can be.
They will only be limited by this what they cansee, what they're losing.
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Yes, and not seeing big picture.
No.
It's, it's it's there's six ghosts of it hetalks about.
There was there's six basic fears.
I agree with all six of these, and maybe Iagree with all six of these because I read this
book forty years ago, and I read it againthirty years ago, and I've read it a bunch of
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times.
So it's the, you know, the repetition, theagreement, the I mean, I was never assigned
this book.
No one ever forced me to read this book.
So I read this book on my own free will everysingle time, but the fears are true.
And it really is helpful when you're helpingsomeone else work out a problem, whether it's a
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friend or whether you're coaching them througha situation to be able to recognize the
different fears because they're all different.
And we all experience all of them all the time,and there's this they all come back to these
six basic.
And, yeah, you know, fear will paralyze yourfaculty of reason if you let it.
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Yeah.
So what are the six main fears?
They are fear of poverty, fear of criticism,fear of ill health, fear of loss of loss of
love of someone, the fear of old age, and thefear of death.
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And all other fears are of minor importance.
They can be grouped under these six.
Right.
Well, I think the fear of poverty, you know, II see a whenever I'm coaching business owners,
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I would I would run into this scarcity mindset.
Like, they they they don't have an abundancebecause though they would love an abundance,
they're afraid that the effort to get theabundance might put them into a worse position
or maybe even worse sentiment to poverty.
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So this the fear of poverty is really strong, Ithink, with people who maybe have experienced
poverty or maybe never have experiencedpoverty, but seriously doubt their ability to
adapt and survive in such a situation.
But this really originates early fromconditioning, and it makes people play it safe,
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avoid risk, and too many times settle for less.
Yes.
So fears are nothing more than states of mind.
One state of mind is subject to control anddirection.
You just think about this, that, man can createnothing which he doesn't first conceive in the
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form of an impulse of thought.
So when people think about what they afraid of,is what they create.
Yes.
So we have to be very conscious about what wethink about.
What is dominating thought?
Are we thinking about our goals, ourachievements, or we think about lack limitation
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and fears?
Well and I think that the the, it's a loteasier to identify where the what fear we're
talking about when we see the action.
Like, I said, the fear of poverty makes peopleplay it safe and avoid risk and settle.
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When you talk about the fear of criticism,that's that fear of judgment prevents people
from taking bold action.
It's probably something you run into quite abit because big goals.
Right?
He had a quote that I really like.
Most people allow relatives, friends, andpublic and the public at large to influence
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them so they cannot live their own lives.
And the fear of judgment suppresses creativityand ambition, which those are important things
if you're trying to move forward.
But when you see that that reluctance or yousee that you see that suppression, you know
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that it's a fear of criticism.
Just like when you see the settling, you know,it's kind of a fear of poverty.
I think it's helpful to understand these fears.
I and that's that's probably what I got themost out of this chapter this go round was
linking the symptom to the cause and the causebeing what fear is it.
Mhmm.
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I like to look at the symptoms.
I like to look at because I know that thecause.
The cause is usually fear, and fear to me isusually, you know, a manifestation or a
collection of the three, you know, the threethings that can stop you.
But I love I love there was one quote in thelast fear, the fear of death.
He said, this fear is useless.
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Death will come no matter what anyone may thinkabout it.
And that quote made me think, was I gratefulfor today?
Was I did I get as much out of today as I couldtoday?
You know?
Because the reality is death's gonna come, butbeing afraid of it is useless.
And that's a 100% true.
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This is this is but this is often tied toreligious or cultural conditioning, and
obsessing over death drains joy and distractsfrom purpose or purposeful living, I guess.
Yes.
And, also maybe because, religious leaders,they tell about death, like, that person can be
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in hell or something in burning all in all lifeor, like, all time, and this can scare people.
But what Napoleon said here, also, it isexactly what Jesus said in the bible that death
is asleep.
Yes.
It is sleep.
And when he even resurrected his friend,Lazarus, he said that Lazarus is asleep.
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Yes.
And I'm going to waken him up.
Yes.
And also here that, there is, transmutation ofenergy, and the energy doesn't end.
Energy only change from one substance toanother substance.
Like, there is transmutation of energy, and itis definitely nothing something that it is not
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that people should be afraid.
Yes.
It is something that we know that will happenanyway.
And instead of thinking bad about this, justfocus on every day.
Focus on this gift of life.
Yes.
This miracle, what we have every day and how wecan live it the best way and enjoy every
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moment, be present every day in what we do.
Yeah.
I I think it's much healthier to think of it asmore of a fear of the unknown than a fear of an
ending.
Mhmm.
Yes.
Definitely.
Yes.
That's also another fear of poverty.
Yes.
Fear of poverty.
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If people fee feel feel any kind of fear, fearof poverty, it means that they will think about
lack and limitation.
And this is what they will attract because weattract what we think.
Because our thoughts, they are impressed insubconscious mind, and subconscious mind is
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emotional mind.
And depending of the thoughts we have, we havefeelings.
As if we feel about something lack, it will benegative, and this will be the frequencies
which our body will transmute.
Yeah?
And this is what we will attract.
We'll be, like, we setting ourselves tochannel, which is in the upper zone of those
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frequency of lack, limitation, poverty, andthis is exactly what we will be attracting.
And we live in abundance.
So this is just state of mind.
We have to switch our thoughts and choose tothink about big goals, achievements, what we
can do, focus on steps which we can take, andthis way how we can succeed.
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And you said it earlier.
You have to give something up to get somethingnew.
And the the approach is different because justbecause you have maybe a mindset of abundance,
it isn't it wouldn't be it wouldn't be prudentof me to just say I'm going with my current
situation, I'm just gonna go out and purchase amillion dollar car that is impractical where I
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live.
But if I am driven linking it to the desirethat I want this million dollar car, well, that
can be positive energy.
That's the big goal.
The big goal is gonna force you to make changesand change your your profit margin or your
income level or your salary or whatever it isyou need to do to get that goal.
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But rather than letting the fear of poverty,which could be interpreted as as being prudent,
instead find the motivation in the goal andsay, don't the goal is I want even if I don't
buy this impractical expensive car, my goal isto be in an abundant position where that goal
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is is not a decision that would make me worryabout becoming poor or having, you know,
manifest some fear of poverty.
It there's we sometimes we we mistake thesefears as being smart or prudence, and sometimes
they are, but it shouldn't stop there.
It should say, I'm the situation I'm in is notacceptable to deliver the goals that I want.
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And these fears are what are stopping itbecause if you don't if you if you beat defeat
these fears and you apply everything from thefirst 14 chapters of this book, you realize
that there's people who are not as gifted andas bright as yourself have created way more
wealth than you've ever imagined.
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So you can do it too, but you have to beproperly motivated, and that's where the desire
needs to be stronger than the fear.
Yes.
And, these fears, they are called in thischapter like ghosts.
Yes.
Like ghosts.
Why Lampoliano called them ghosts?
Because they are invisible.
People don't identify them as it is not them.
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They think that these thoughts are theirthoughts, but it is not their thoughts.
They they can identify them as those ghosts orsaboteurs is, like, which uses their power,
which uses their strength and abuse that.
Like, every those saboteurs fear, they comefrom strength, but it uses it more than it is
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necessary.
So in order to choose the road of abundance,have to implement all these principles which we
discussed in this book, yes, in this program.
Because if you implement and when you implementall these principles, this is the road map
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which will take you to wealth, to abundance,and to success.
So instead of being afraid of something that orany negative outcome, just get responsibility
that you have now these tools.
You have the road map and just focus on everystep which we discussed in each of the chapter.
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And when you do it, this is how you willsucceed.
Yes.
Because if we think about today, this was theyin decision doubt, they drain our energy.
That we shouldn't allow them to drain ourenergy.
We have to get our control back, decide what wewant, focus on then, that and having this road
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map just going from one destination to anotherdestination with full confidence.
I I I see that.
And if you think about with this abundancewhere you might be having a fear, there I'm
afraid that I might not be able to, I don'tknow, purchase something that I wanna purchase
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where I have zero fear that I'm gonna starve todeath.
I have no doubt that my next meal is coming,and my next meal is coming after that.
I have no fear of that.
There are people alive who would consider thefact that I have no fear or no doubt that my
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next meals will continue to come as abundance,as unthinkable.
How could you be so confident that you knowthat?
And it's just because I have a standard that mystandard is no matter what, there's gonna be a
stream of meals.
I will not go hungry.
That is not acceptable to me.
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Well, you know, I will not be homeless.
I will not live in a small house.
I will not, you know, take the bus.
I will own a vehicle.
I will own an airplane.
It's the expectations that we set are linked tothe desires, and the fears are there to keep
you in line or to keep you from going throughwhat I've heard called terror barriers.
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Like, you're afraid of the unknown.
And, you know, there's a lot of symptoms thatlet you know when you're afraid.
And when you've mastered your fears, it'sreally easy to see it in others.
But just because you've mastered your fears,it's helpful to have someone else kinda take a
look, you know, when you have indecision orwhen you're procrastinating or you're you're
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you're way too cautious or you're worryingabout everything or you doubt your abilities.
There's no self confidence.
These things can be subtle and be unnoticed,but recognizing them, just like any other
problem, once you know you have a problem, thenyou can start to fix the problem.
So recognizing all these traits, these traitsin high achieving people, they consider
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indecision and procrastination and worry andand things like that as weakness.
They consider that as something that holdsothers back.
They don't have that problem because they'veconquered their fears.
What they don't know is there's every time youget to another level, new level, new devil,
there's fears of the unknown that you don'tknow what's next.
But it's raising your standards and setting biggoals and connecting with your desire.
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You know, chapter two.
Mhmm.
Yes.
The fears don't get anywhere.
We always will have those fears, goals,saboteurs, we can give them this place in our
car.
Yes.
Instead of giving them the driver's seat, wecan put them in back seat and tell them, okay.
I know you are there.
This is voice of my fear, or this is voice ofmy doubt, or this is voice of anything else.
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There are some different saboteurs we have.
But we cannot let them drive.
Yes.
We cannot let them dictate our decisions.
Yes.
We can identify their voices and say, okay.
This is voice of fear, or this is voice ofdoubt.
Okay.
Go there.
Sit behind quiet.
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I'm now in control.
I'm now on my way how to lead my life.
And
I love what you just said there because thatthat's a quote.
Like, I write down quotes that I that Ihighlighted in the book, and the quote that I
think touches on what you said was thesubconscious mind voluntarily acts upon the
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dominating thoughts fed by one's fears.
That's just what you said.
We we can't let it control.
Your subconscious will accept fear basedthoughts just like success oriented ones.
But if we're not involved in the decision, yoursubconscious mind is gonna default our our play
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it safe.
It's your lizard brain, I call it.
You know, your your emotional brain, not yourlogical one.
You have to replace negative thoughtsconsciously and deliberately.
That's that's you know, that point was made alot in this book, but it really resonates what
you've just said.
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Yes.
These fears don't go anywhere.
Every level has their own fears, and it is anatural process.
Because when we step out and we want to startdoing something new, something bigger, this
wall, as Paul said, terribiria, it is wall offear and doubt will automatically raise because
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this is how our brain is operating.
Everything what not known, everything unknown,it will bring fear on autopilot on autopilot.
But when we understand this process that alwaysthey're breaking through to next level why we
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say breakthrough?
Right?
What are we breaking through?
They're breaking through this wall of fear anddoubt.
This is what we're breaking through.
Right?
Right.
And the closer you get, the harder it is tobreak through.
Remember the two feet from the gold orwhatever.
The closer you get to breaking through, theharder your subconscious mind, it seems, will
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work to stop you from doing that.
That's not helping you, and you have to beaware of this and realize it's gonna get worse
before it gets better.
And you have to accept that, and you have butsuccessful people, if you go back in their
life, they broke through terror barriers.
And as they broke through them, they started togain the confidence and the understanding that
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you have to break through to get to the nextlevel.
But if you've never broken through, you don'teven believe that it's possible.
Yes.
It is like a journey from cocoon to butterfly.
Yes.
It should it should have those unconvenience,yes, inconvenience and physically break through
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that cocoon to make the muscle strong.
Yes.
If you open cocoon, if you want to to helpbutterfly before it comes itself, it will die
because, its muscles will not be strong enoughto fly.
If you just think you help an open cocoon, thisinstant will will die.
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Yes.
So, again, when we when we're given these fearsand doubts, this is, like, next step.
We should understand that and embrace these newchallenges and fears and have these fears and
face them and act anyway.
And this is just becomes the part of ournature.
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It is just our attitude.
Right?
Attitude towards ourselves, attitude towardsproblems, challenges, attitude towards fears.
When we know that they exist, we expect them.
We know that it will be coming.
Doubt will come.
Fear will come, and we already embrace them,and we meet them, and we break them through.
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And this is how we grow.
Right?
Because, again, why all this uncomfortable?
Because we are at this level, and we want togrow to different level.
So this is how when we're breaking throughthese fears, this is how we're growing, And
this is how we level up and get to our goalsbecause we have to become energetic equivalent
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to what we want.
We cannot be the same as we were having thesame habits, doing the same, and having
different life, different goals.
We can't achieve them.
We have to grow.
We have to transform our to become match, andthen we start everything that is at that level.
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When I I think you make my point that we madeat the beginning about why this chapter isn't
first because it's a lot easier to understandthese concepts because so much of this is
happening in the subconscious.
If this is the first time you read the book,you just learned about how the subconscious
worked, and you just learned some of the toolsto use to actually direct your subconscious.
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And, you know, by using things like mastermindsand how using things like auto suggestion, you
know, these concepts, unless you read thisbook, are really foreign.
But once you've started working on these andthe power of positivity and you get to this
point, then when you come to fears, fears ofthat last line of defense, and it can be, for
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lack of a better word, scary.
I mean, that's that's the definition of fear.
But I think what you're saying is to pushthrough, we have to we have to be on point.
We can't go we can't go into chapter 16 with,you know, 10 of the 15 chapters mastered.
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Fears are gonna defeat us because there'ssomething in all the other chapters.
And they're you know, I'm a broken record, butthey're in order.
They're in order for a reason, and this one ishere for a reason because this can derail all
that work.
You have to outwit the six ghosts, as you said.
Yes.
And instead of having fear because when we havefear, we give our power to something else, to
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outside circumstances or people or events.
But instead of that, we can takeresponsibility.
And take this responsibility and understandthat now we have the road map.
Now we know how to be successful.
So our total focus should only on implementingthese steps, and no will save you from
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accepting the responsibility if you now fail orrefuse or demand reaches of of life because
acceptance calls for but one thing.
Incidentally, the only thing control, and thatis a state of mind.
So you can control what to choose, how to feel.
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You can be happy where you are and expectbetter thing.
And having this road map knowing what you'regoing to do and see your success.
Live from that place already.
Live and feel how your life will be from thewish which fulfilled.
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Yeah.
I I love this.
I love strategies.
I love when you can take something from achapter and implement it.
It's not it's not this you know, it's it'ssomething concrete.
There's actionable steps you can take.
Right?
He tells us, take inventory of yourselfintentionally with respect to fear.
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And, you know, ask yourself, do I suffer fromany of the six fears?
Well, before you can ask yourself thatquestion, you gotta know what those six fears
and what the symptoms are.
But then ask yourself, do I frequentlyprocrastinate?
Do I tolerate negative influences?
Because talk about giving up something.
Have you ever had to just remove a negativeperson from your life?
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And that can be hard if it's someone that hasbeen a big part of your life to that point.
But the person you're becoming, you know,you're now a butterfly, and this caterpillar
wants you to stay being a caterpillar.
And that's just not who you are anymore.
But if you're tolerating negative influences,that would be like a caterpillar just walking
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around on the ground like I mean, a a butterflywalking around on the ground when it has wings
now.
It has a purpose that's different than it usedto be.
Yes.
And only a conscious analysis will disclose thepresence of these universal enemies.
When you begin such an analysis, search deeplyinto your character.
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Here is a list of the symptoms for which youshould look.
And this is the these are the symptoms.
First is indifference, indecision, doubt,worry, overcaution, procrastination.
So analyze if you have any of these symptoms.
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Yes.
Because this is symptoms of these enemies whichact behind our conscious.
Well, you have to you know, there's some selfdiscipline here.
Right?
And and you have to monitor your emotionalstate, which, you know, life happens.
Sometimes we get busy.
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It's not always you know, you have to make timefor this.
You have to pay attention to this becausethings can be going great until they're not.
And if we weren't, you know, monitoring, weweren't you know, intentionally, using self
awareness, we miss opportunities to replacethat fear with things like faith, purpose, and,
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you know, what I love is definiteness.
I love there's no doubt.
I love knowing an outcome.
That's that that's something I find comfort in.
So my goals are usually about to where theoutcome is not in doubt.
I don't like to gamble or, you know, gowherever the wind takes me.
I like to have a definiteness, and thatdefiniteness to me needs to translate to more
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of a definiteness of my purpose and connectionwith what my goals are.
Yes.
And, also, I like how Napoleon highlighted herethat a state of mind is something that one
assumes.
Just think about it.
You assume something already have or assume whoyou become, and you don't need material things
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to assume.
Yes.
It is totally free.
You can just think what you want, who you wantto become, assume what you already have that
and that you already became that person, and,what does your life look like?
And then do everything, think from that place,act from the place, feel feel those emotions
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which you have, everything from that place.
And this is how you will be fueled because thatyou have that big vision, you have that big
desire.
It give you enough fuel to overcome fear anddoubt.
And also interesting mhmm.
Well, just to add to what you say, I mean, Hillargues, and I agree, that success is just as
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much about the elimination of mental poisons asit is about action and planning, the fuel.
The fuel is like every chapter until now, butit's like the book is in two halves.
There's the the fuel, and then there's the, theelimination of the poison.
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The poison being the fear.
But if you don't conquer fear, you can't fullygrow rich mentally, spiritually, or materially.
And this, you know, like, this last chapter isis it's a conclusion, but it's a it's a
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warning.
And also And I think
it's very people read this book again and againand again because this last chapter is almost
like a cliffhanger that makes you you know,normally, cliffhanger makes you wanna read the
sequel.
This cliffhanger makes you wanna watch thererun.
It makes you wanna what did I not get inchapter one, two, three, four, five, six?
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You know?
Because I didn't know this about fear.
I hadn't been exposed to this concept yet.
So how will I read chapter four after knowingthis?
Probably differently.
And that's why I think I get somethingdifferent out of this book every single time I
read it.
But this last chapter is almost like theintroduction.
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You know, it just hooks you.
Mhmm.
Yes.
And I want to come back again to the state ofmind.
That state of mind is something that oneassumes, and it cannot be purchased.
It must be created.
This is very powerful.
You just think about this.
You cannot buy state of mind, and it alsodoesn't come to you automatically.
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It is not that you were born with right stateof mind.
And, of course, we know that there is so manydifferent viruses we collect, and, we have
everything inside us.
And we have to create the right state of mind.
Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothingelse, and other fears.
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It is all state of mind.
And these fears paralyzes the faculty ofreason, destroys the faculty of imagination,
heal of self reliance, undermines enthusiasm,discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of
purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes outenthusiasm, and makes self control an
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impossibility.
Yeah.
This is all negative negative effects of fears.
So because we know that we can create and webecome aware now of this.
Yeah.
So this is it also brings responsibilitybecause now we cannot blame somebody that or,
like, I'm not successful or I'm not richbecause politicians or because economy and
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because my family.
No.
Now you have this road map.
You have this, like, campus.
Campus which show to the way, and you have totake total responsibility of how you implement
these principles because now you have them.
It just go again from chapter one and startimplementing implementing and really analyze
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deep how you change every of theseimplementations.
It's how your life changes, how you change, howyou start think different.
Yes.
So that you think from power, from abundance,from success, and see how your life will start
changing.
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Well, I you know, the the the chapter's clear.
The the fear is the root of our failures, andawareness of that is is our power.
The six fears, I like how they're laid out.
They make sense to me.
They're universal.
But like you said, there's the mentaldiscipline is the key.
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Right?
Everyone experiences these fears.
You're not unique if you have these fears, butnot everyone conquers them.
That's why it says awareness is power.
You can't conquer it if you're not aware ofthem, but this the end of this chapter to me is
a call to courage.
And that's what's inspire hopefully, I hopepeople listening to this and people reading
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this book for the first time feel like I do.
They read this chapter.
It makes them want to read the book again.
But this is a call to courage.
You the chapter itself is like a philosophicaland emotional climax.
The the chapter itself challenges us to make afinal leap into self belief and fearless
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action.
And that takes strength, and the strength isprovided in the previous chapters, which is why
now that you know what you're fighting against,you wanna go find out how to all the different
ways to win and succeed in this fight, but it'sall all of this is between your ears.
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It's in our heads.
It's in our minds.
It's like you said, it assumes.
We make a lot of assumptions, and some of themaren't right.
Yes.
And, also, I liked how Napoleon said in thischapter that life is not the same.
It is we exist in different parallel worlds.
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It's like one situation happens, but, differentpeople who are in this situation, for them, the
situation is different because this is how theyassume.
Right?
This is how they look at things.
They look at things through the prism of theirbeliefs, through the prism of their habits and
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their background.
There's all these called paradigms.
Yes.
So you can always choose how to look at things.
You can always choose how to be empowered.
Yes.
And knowing what we discussed as principles nowsets you so much ahead of people who don't know
this, yes, and brings you that feeling of beingin control because now you know how to ride the
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horse.
Yes.
Like, how to manage all these, all theseinvisible forces which pull you back.
Right?
So when you master this, you can be muchfurther than you could ever think before
without having this knowledge.
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And you don't have to be a master.
And I I I sometimes remind people of this.
You don't have to be a master.
Success in in life, success in business,success in sometimes, it's not a competition.
But in many times, the reality is it is acompetition for you to have to get that client
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or to date that person or to have that thing.
It means someone else can't have it.
So there's sometimes there's competition.
Well, you don't necessarily have to be a masterof all things presented here to win the
competition.
You just have to be a little bit better thanthe person you're competing against.
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And implementing the principles in this book,even just a little bit, not, I mean, not, like,
really doing it and going over the top like youand I do, but just implementing the principles
in this book and and having the awareness andthe tools to fight fear is going to make you
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better and more equipped if you're ever inthose situations that are competitive.
And when they're not competitive, well, great.
Your right.
Your your desire is clear.
Your subconscious is not polluted, and you'veconquered your fears.
But you don't have to be an expert in allthings to win, and winning is sometimes
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required to push through the next levels ofother things.
And it's not where it's not an unfairadvantage.
It's just when you take when you take theinitiative and you have the discipline to
better yourself, you're putting yourself inposition to succeed where others aren't doing
that.
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Yes.
And it it really gives the confidence when youknow that you can do that.
You can achieve your goals.
You can achieve your dreams.
You can achieve that level of financialfreedom, and it all depends on So now when you
have this knowledge, you should feel empowered.
Yes.
Because you have no excuses.
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You cannot say, like, something is controllingyour results.
Now you know that your thoughts, your feelings,your actions, your discipline, having big
desire, and, different tools which you receivedin this course from this book will equip you to
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achieve your goals, to be successful, and, ofcourse, to grow, yes, to to live life with
fulfillment and happiness in different areas ofyour life.
I agree.
I agree.
I'm a little part of me is sad that we're atthe end of this book, Alina.
We we've kinda we've gone through so manydifferent concepts, and we and, I mean, these
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are all concepts that I was familiar with.
But having these discussions and talking abouton this level and then having others, you know,
following.
And, you know, just this morning, I wasreading, you know, page after page of of work
that I saw that someone did, and it's justlike, how much improvement is that individual
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gonna see as a result of coming through thisjourney with with us.
Yes.
So today, we have the last homework for thisweek, and this is analyzing yourself, analyzing
which fears you have, what dominating thoughtsyou have, what is related to your goals.
Identify them.
Write them down.
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Analyze which where are those three enemiessuch as indecision, doubt, fear show themselves
in your life.
Also, analyze which fear you have from thosesix which we mentioned, and just assume assume
what you want to have.
Replace those Mhmm.
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Replace those negative thoughts with thoseideas which you want, which will empower you,
which will inspire you, and which will help youto to be in control and succeed.
I think it's helpful to write, and I've donethis.
That's why I say it's helpful because it washelpful.
Write the six fears down after you understandthem, and then write an example of where you've
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experienced this fear and it's made an impact.
Some some might be really easy.
Some might make you really have to dig deep.
But if you go through that exercise and youidentify those fears and you own them, that's
the hard part.
The easy part is overcoming them.
The hard part is seeing them and being honestand admitting to them.
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And I I, you know, shine a light on them.
See, this is just a fear, and a fear is a fearis in between my ears.
It's something I made up.
It's not real.
It might be based on something that's real, butmore often than not, it's based on another
fear, not the actual threat that you'reclaiming is the problem.
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Yes.
This all state of mind.
This is assumption.
And you also can analyze the situation when youhad fear and how you acted.
And look at the situation from differentperspective.
Think if you knew this, what you learned now,what you know now, how you could act different
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if you didn't let that fear dominate?
What would be outcome of that situation?
Analyze those situations and make decision howyou will decide and how you will act in future
empowered by the knowledge which you received.
It's brilliant.
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The ghost of fear haunt everyone.
But with awareness and practice, you can banishthem.
That was the last note I wrote in my notebook.
Yes.
So have the fear and do it anyway.
Yes.
Face the fear, and it will disappear.
Disappear.
Master yourself.
Master your thoughts.
Master your state of mind, and this is the keyto success.
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And, again, we urge you to finish here, but tostart the book again, go through first chapter,
and, really focus on implementing each andevery principles which we learned.
And don't just don't just do it again.
I encourage you if you feel like I did.
I just felt moved to share this book with asmany people as I could.
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I encourage you to do the same because it's itreally feels good when you're talking to
someone who's read the book for the first time,and then they start coming to you as if you're
the expert on all of these things because tothem, you are.
And it really it really pushes the lessons.
It really pushes the the truths that are inthis book deeper and deeper, and it becomes
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more and more a part of you.
And that's a good thing.
Yes.
And, of course, if you found this programbeneficial for you when you gained knowledge
and other positive things, and you can alsorefer it to other people.
Yes?
Introduce this program, and, of course, give usfeedback if you have any questions.
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We're always happy to support.
And no doubt we'll be doing something similarwith future books.
And I would love to know what books the peoplelistening to us would recommend to us to do
this same sort of series with because I knowI've got a list of books that in my head, and I
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know, Alina, you got a list of books in yourhead.
And we've seen each other's list, and they'revery similar.
There's a lot of the same books on both lists.
This one was just at the top of both of ours.
But there's there's some really goodinformation out there, and even even just
reading it sometimes isn't enough.
You have to be able to discuss it and bounceideas and listen to others and go deeper.
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Give yourself homework and give yourself areason.
But, stay tuned because we'll have, without adoubt, future programs just like this that, you
know, are helping you.
Breaking barriers is a thing, and I pray thateveryone who's gone on this journey with us so
far is seeing that that truth is actually true.
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Yes.
Of course.
And join the community of like minded people.
Welcome.
Hello.
Hello.
Finally, we came to chapter 15.
That is the conclusion of our journey.
It was a long journey, and we learned so much.
And today, we will speak about this finalchapter, how to outwit the six ghosts of fear.
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Yeah.
And I wish this chapter would be the first onebecause it is so important.
And somehow Napoleon put it last one.
Maybe he thought that after this chapter, wehave to start again and revise what we learned
from chapter one.
Well, you know me.
I do not question Napoleon Hill's layout of thechapter order, but I I truly believe that this
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chapter logically would make sense to be thefirst chapter.
However, I don't know that we would properlyappreciate it at first, the way we do after
going through the whole journey.
I mean, the chapter is like a conclusion, butit's also a warning.
You know, it it's it's identifying the six,fundamental fears that that can sabotage the
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success.
And I like it because it's practical.
It's not just a conclusion.
It shows you how to overcome them.
So, you know, step one with any problem isidentifying the problem, and step two is having
a strategy to overcome it.
And he calls this how to outwit the six ghostsof fear.
Yes.
I Which Uh-huh.
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Yeah.
Words like outwit in the nineteen thirties wasvery clever and, you know, hilarious, I bet.
Yeah.
I think Napoleon put it last chapter because hewanted to make it first and encourage readers
to go again because this book definitely isnot, like, book which you read only once.
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One, you just one time you read just to haveoverview and to understanding the principles.
And then after you read it all, this is theright time to go again, start from chapter one
and really make sure that you implement everystep.
Yes.
That you you analyze your actions, not onlylearning, but really tap into that actions and
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get results and and mark your success, markimplementation of these principles.
It's a road map.
I mean, this book Muslims have the Koran.
Jews have the Torah.
Christians have the bible.
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Entrepreneurs have Think and Grow Rich.
You know, it's it's just one of those one ofthose compass type books that you can go back
to and go back to and and and make decisionsbased on what you learned in that book.
Maybe not the first time you read it.
Maybe the tenth time you read it.
Yes.
And as Napoleon said that before you can putany portion of this philosophy into successful
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use, your mind must be prepared to receive it.
Yes.
So when we go through all these principles, weprepare our mind to receive it.
And the preparation begins with study,analysis, and understanding of three enemies
which you shall have to clear out.
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Yes.
And these three enemies are indecision, doubt,and fear.
Well, fear is the big one because, you know youknow, the whole book, he's calling for the
state of mind so that, we can master success.
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But unless you eliminate fear, it doesn'tmatter how well you've developed your mastery
of the principles.
If you're afraid, it doesn't matter it doesn'tmatter how good you are at diving.
If you're afraid to jump off the diving board,all that all that training and all that
understanding doesn't matter.
You gotta overcome the fear.
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Yes.
This is highlighted here that the sixth sensewill never function while these three negatives
or any of them remain in your mind.
The members of this unholy trio are closelyrelated.
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And where one is found, the other two are closeat hand.
Well and fears I mean, fears kinda kinda trumpsall three.
It kinda includes all three, but you're right.
But they're nothing more than states of mind.
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I mean, fear along with the other one, it'sexternal.
It originates in your thoughts.
It isn't necessarily real.
But doesn't mean it's not powerful.
It doesn't mean it can't stop you.
But the the good news is it is internal.
And if it's internal, you can control it.
We have to you know, there are things we cancontrol and things we cannot control.
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And I think a lot of people spend too muchenergy worrying or being anxious about things
they have no control over.
While you have something like this that you canabsolutely con control.
But fear is controllable, and it's important toknow that because fear paralyzes initiative.
It kills self reliance, and it ruinsopportunities.
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Yes.
And indecision comes from fear.
Yes.
Indecision comes from fear, and, also, itbrings with itself doubt.
And Right.
When we want to be successful, we have tounderstand that fear is the state of mind, and
we have absolute control of our thoughts.
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It means that we can replace fear with havingdesire.
Yeah.
That having desire why, started from beginningof this book to find your burning desire.
Because when you have that burning desire, itwill help you focus on what you want instead of
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focusing on obstacles, fear, doubt, andindecisions.
Well, I I spent a lot of time in in sales, anda lot of the sales psychology, if you ever read
those books, they they highlight one thingthat's true.
People have a desire for gain.
Like, they want things, but they also have afear of loss.
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And that fear of loss is so much more powerful,and it's so much more controlling in their
decision making process that you have toreally, really amp up the desire for what they
want to overcome that much more powerful fearof losing.
And it's the fear of losing is one of thosethings people don't pay attention to because
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they don't think they have control of.
And they it's one of the few things we actuallyhave control of.
Yes.
And everything has price.
Yes.
Everything has price.
If we have big goal, we understand that we haveto pay something.
Yet we have to pay material by money or by timeor efforts.
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And we have to see the bigger picture.
It's not focusing what we are losing because weare not losing.
It's because it is just the the way how to getsomething bigger.
But if people are afraid on what they'relosing, they will never get where they can be.
They will only be limited by this what they cansee, what they're losing.
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Yes, and not seeing big picture.
No.
It's, it's it's there's six ghosts of it hetalks about.
There was there's six basic fears.
I agree with all six of these, and maybe Iagree with all six of these because I read this
book forty years ago, and I read it againthirty years ago, and I've read it a bunch of
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times.
So it's the, you know, the repetition, theagreement, the I mean, I was never assigned
this book.
No one ever forced me to read this book.
So I read this book on my own free will everysingle time, but the fears are true.
And it really is helpful when you're helpingsomeone else work out a problem, whether it's a
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friend or whether you're coaching them througha situation to be able to recognize the
different fears because they're all different.
And we all experience all of them all the time,and there's this they all come back to these
six basic.
And, yeah, you know, fear will paralyze yourfaculty of reason if you let it.
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Yeah.
So what are the six main fears?
They are fear of poverty, fear of criticism,fear of ill health, fear of loss of loss of
love of someone, the fear of old age, and thefear of death.
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And all other fears are of minor importance.
They can be grouped under these six.
Right.
Well, I think the fear of poverty, you know, II see a whenever I'm coaching business owners,
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I would I would run into this scarcity mindset.
Like, they they they don't have an abundancebecause though they would love an abundance,
they're afraid that the effort to get theabundance might put them into a worse position
or maybe even worse sentiment to poverty.
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So this the fear of poverty is really strong, Ithink, with people who maybe have experienced
poverty or maybe never have experiencedpoverty, but seriously doubt their ability to
adapt and survive in such a situation.
But this really originates early fromconditioning, and it makes people play it safe,
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avoid risk, and too many times settle for less.
Yes.
So fears are nothing more than states of mind.
One state of mind is subject to control anddirection.
You just think about this, that, man can createnothing which he doesn't first conceive in the
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form of an impulse of thought.
So when people think about what they afraid of,is what they create.
Yes.
So we have to be very conscious about what wethink about.
What is dominating thought?
Are we thinking about our goals, ourachievements, or we think about lack limitation
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and fears?
Well and I think that the the, it's a loteasier to identify where the what fear we're
talking about when we see the action.
Like, I said, the fear of poverty makes peopleplay it safe and avoid risk and settle.
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When you talk about the fear of criticism,that's that fear of judgment prevents people
from taking bold action.
It's probably something you run into quite abit because big goals.
Right?
He had a quote that I really like.
Most people allow relatives, friends, andpublic and the public at large to influence
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them so they cannot live their own lives.
And the fear of judgment suppresses creativityand ambition, which those are important things
if you're trying to move forward.
But when you see that that reluctance or yousee that you see that suppression, you know
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that it's a fear of criticism.
Just like when you see the settling, you know,it's kind of a fear of poverty.
I think it's helpful to understand these fears.
I and that's that's probably what I got themost out of this chapter this go round was
linking the symptom to the cause and the causebeing what fear is it.
Mhmm.
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I like to look at the symptoms.
I like to look at because I know that thecause.
The cause is usually fear, and fear to me isusually, you know, a manifestation or a
collection of the three, you know, the threethings that can stop you.
But I love I love there was one quote in thelast fear, the fear of death.
He said, this fear is useless.
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Death will come no matter what anyone may thinkabout it.
And that quote made me think, was I gratefulfor today?
Was I did I get as much out of today as I couldtoday?
You know?
Because the reality is death's gonna come, butbeing afraid of it is useless.
And that's a 100% true.
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This is this is but this is often tied toreligious or cultural conditioning, and
obsessing over death drains joy and distractsfrom purpose or purposeful living, I guess.
Yes.
And, also maybe because, religious leaders,they tell about death, like, that person can be
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in hell or something in burning all in all lifeor, like, all time, and this can scare people.
But what Napoleon said here, also, it isexactly what Jesus said in the bible that death
is asleep.
Yes.
It is sleep.
And when he even resurrected his friend,Lazarus, he said that Lazarus is asleep.
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Yes.
And I'm going to waken him up.
Yes.
And also here that, there is, transmutation ofenergy, and the energy doesn't end.
Energy only change from one substance toanother substance.
Like, there is transmutation of energy, and itis definitely nothing something that it is not
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that people should be afraid.
Yes.
It is something that we know that will happenanyway.
And instead of thinking bad about this, justfocus on every day.
Focus on this gift of life.
Yes.
This miracle, what we have every day and how wecan live it the best way and enjoy every
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moment, be present every day in what we do.
Yeah.
I I think it's much healthier to think of it asmore of a fear of the unknown than a fear of an
ending.
Mhmm.
Yes.
Definitely.
Yes.
That's also another fear of poverty.
Yes.
Fear of poverty.
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If people fee feel feel any kind of fear, fearof poverty, it means that they will think about
lack and limitation.
And this is what they will attract because weattract what we think.
Because our thoughts, they are impressed insubconscious mind, and subconscious mind is
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emotional mind.
And depending of the thoughts we have, we havefeelings.
As if we feel about something lack, it will benegative, and this will be the frequencies
which our body will transmute.
Yeah?
And this is what we will attract.
We'll be, like, we setting ourselves tochannel, which is in the upper zone of those
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frequency of lack, limitation, poverty, andthis is exactly what we will be attracting.
And we live in abundance.
So this is just state of mind.
We have to switch our thoughts and choose tothink about big goals, achievements, what we
can do, focus on steps which we can take, andthis way how we can succeed.
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And you said it earlier.
You have to give something up to get somethingnew.
And the the approach is different because justbecause you have maybe a mindset of abundance,
it isn't it wouldn't be it wouldn't be prudentof me to just say I'm going with my current
situation, I'm just gonna go out and purchase amillion dollar car that is impractical where I
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live.
But if I am driven linking it to the desirethat I want this million dollar car, well, that
can be positive energy.
That's the big goal.
The big goal is gonna force you to make changesand change your your profit margin or your
income level or your salary or whatever it isyou need to do to get that goal.
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But rather than letting the fear of poverty,which could be interpreted as as being prudent,
instead find the motivation in the goal andsay, don't the goal is I want even if I don't
buy this impractical expensive car, my goal isto be in an abundant position where that goal
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is is not a decision that would make me worryabout becoming poor or having, you know,
manifest some fear of poverty.
It there's we sometimes we we mistake thesefears as being smart or prudence, and sometimes
they are, but it shouldn't stop there.
It should say, I'm the situation I'm in is notacceptable to deliver the goals that I want.
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And these fears are what are stopping itbecause if you don't if you if you beat defeat
these fears and you apply everything from thefirst 14 chapters of this book, you realize
that there's people who are not as gifted andas bright as yourself have created way more
wealth than you've ever imagined.
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So you can do it too, but you have to beproperly motivated, and that's where the desire
needs to be stronger than the fear.
Yes.
And, these fears, they are called in thischapter like ghosts.
Yes.
Like ghosts.
Why Lampoliano called them ghosts?
Because they are invisible.
People don't identify them as it is not them.
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They think that these thoughts are theirthoughts, but it is not their thoughts.
They they can identify them as those ghosts orsaboteurs is, like, which uses their power,
which uses their strength and abuse that.
Like, every those saboteurs fear, they comefrom strength, but it uses it more than it is
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necessary.
So in order to choose the road of abundance,have to implement all these principles which we
discussed in this book, yes, in this program.
Because if you implement and when you implementall these principles, this is the road map
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which will take you to wealth, to abundance,and to success.
So instead of being afraid of something that orany negative outcome, just get responsibility
that you have now these tools.
You have the road map and just focus on everystep which we discussed in each of the chapter.
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And when you do it, this is how you willsucceed.
Yes.
Because if we think about today, this was theyin decision doubt, they drain our energy.
That we shouldn't allow them to drain ourenergy.
We have to get our control back, decide what wewant, focus on then, that and having this road
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map just going from one destination to anotherdestination with full confidence.
I I I see that.
And if you think about with this abundancewhere you might be having a fear, there I'm
afraid that I might not be able to, I don'tknow, purchase something that I wanna purchase
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where I have zero fear that I'm gonna starve todeath.
I have no doubt that my next meal is coming,and my next meal is coming after that.
I have no fear of that.
There are people alive who would consider thefact that I have no fear or no doubt that my
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next meals will continue to come as abundance,as unthinkable.
How could you be so confident that you knowthat?
And it's just because I have a standard that mystandard is no matter what, there's gonna be a
stream of meals.
I will not go hungry.
That is not acceptable to me.
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Well, you know, I will not be homeless.
I will not live in a small house.
I will not, you know, take the bus.
I will own a vehicle.
I will own an airplane.
It's the expectations that we set are linked tothe desires, and the fears are there to keep
you in line or to keep you from going throughwhat I've heard called terror barriers.
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Like, you're afraid of the unknown.
And, you know, there's a lot of symptoms thatlet you know when you're afraid.
And when you've mastered your fears, it'sreally easy to see it in others.
But just because you've mastered your fears,it's helpful to have someone else kinda take a
look, you know, when you have indecision orwhen you're procrastinating or you're you're
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you're way too cautious or you're worryingabout everything or you doubt your abilities.
There's no self confidence.
These things can be subtle and be unnoticed,but recognizing them, just like any other
problem, once you know you have a problem, thenyou can start to fix the problem.
So recognizing all these traits, these traitsin high achieving people, they consider
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indecision and procrastination and worry andand things like that as weakness.
They consider that as something that holdsothers back.
They don't have that problem because they'veconquered their fears.
What they don't know is there's every time youget to another level, new level, new devil,
there's fears of the unknown that you don'tknow what's next.
But it's raising your standards and setting biggoals and connecting with your desire.
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You know, chapter two.
Mhmm.
Yes.
The fears don't get anywhere.
We always will have those fears, goals,saboteurs, we can give them this place in our
car.
Yes.
Instead of giving them the driver's seat, wecan put them in back seat and tell them, okay.
I know you are there.
This is voice of my fear, or this is voice ofmy doubt, or this is voice of anything else.
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There are some different saboteurs we have.
But we cannot let them drive.
Yes.
We cannot let them dictate our decisions.
Yes.
We can identify their voices and say, okay.
This is voice of fear, or this is voice ofdoubt.
Okay.
Go there.
Sit behind quiet.
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I'm now in control.
I'm now on my way how to lead my life.
And
I love what you just said there because thatthat's a quote.
Like, I write down quotes that I that Ihighlighted in the book, and the quote that I
think touches on what you said was thesubconscious mind voluntarily acts upon the
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dominating thoughts fed by one's fears.
That's just what you said.
We we can't let it control.
Your subconscious will accept fear basedthoughts just like success oriented ones.
But if we're not involved in the decision, yoursubconscious mind is gonna default our our play
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it safe.
It's your lizard brain, I call it.
You know, your your emotional brain, not yourlogical one.
You have to replace negative thoughtsconsciously and deliberately.
That's that's you know, that point was made alot in this book, but it really resonates what
you've just said.
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Yes.
These fears don't go anywhere.
Every level has their own fears, and it is anatural process.
Because when we step out and we want to startdoing something new, something bigger, this
wall, as Paul said, terribiria, it is wall offear and doubt will automatically raise because
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this is how our brain is operating.
Everything what not known, everything unknown,it will bring fear on autopilot on autopilot.
But when we understand this process that alwaysthey're breaking through to next level why we
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say breakthrough?
Right?
What are we breaking through?
They're breaking through this wall of fear anddoubt.
This is what we're breaking through.
Right?
Right.
And the closer you get, the harder it is tobreak through.
Remember the two feet from the gold orwhatever.
The closer you get to breaking through, theharder your subconscious mind, it seems, will
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work to stop you from doing that.
That's not helping you, and you have to beaware of this and realize it's gonna get worse
before it gets better.
And you have to accept that, and you have butsuccessful people, if you go back in their
life, they broke through terror barriers.
And as they broke through them, they started togain the confidence and the understanding that
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you have to break through to get to the nextlevel.
But if you've never broken through, you don'teven believe that it's possible.
Yes.
It is like a journey from cocoon to butterfly.
Yes.
It should it should have those unconvenience,yes, inconvenience and physically break through
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that cocoon to make the muscle strong.
Yes.
If you open cocoon, if you want to to helpbutterfly before it comes itself, it will die
because, its muscles will not be strong enoughto fly.
If you just think you help an open cocoon, thisinstant will will die.
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Yes.
So, again, when we when we're given these fearsand doubts, this is, like, next step.
We should understand that and embrace these newchallenges and fears and have these fears and
face them and act anyway.
And this is just becomes the part of ournature.
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It is just our attitude.
Right?
Attitude towards ourselves, attitude towardsproblems, challenges, attitude towards fears.
When we know that they exist, we expect them.
We know that it will be coming.
Doubt will come.
Fear will come, and we already embrace them,and we meet them, and we break them through.
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And this is how we grow.
Right?
Because, again, why all this uncomfortable?
Because we are at this level, and we want togrow to different level.
So this is how when we're breaking throughthese fears, this is how we're growing, And
this is how we level up and get to our goalsbecause we have to become energetic equivalent
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to what we want.
We cannot be the same as we were having thesame habits, doing the same, and having
different life, different goals.
We can't achieve them.
We have to grow.
We have to transform our to become match, andthen we start everything that is at that level.
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When I I think you make my point that we madeat the beginning about why this chapter isn't
first because it's a lot easier to understandthese concepts because so much of this is
happening in the subconscious.
If this is the first time you read the book,you just learned about how the subconscious
worked, and you just learned some of the toolsto use to actually direct your subconscious.
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And, you know, by using things like mastermindsand how using things like auto suggestion, you
know, these concepts, unless you read thisbook, are really foreign.
But once you've started working on these andthe power of positivity and you get to this
point, then when you come to fears, fears ofthat last line of defense, and it can be, for
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lack of a better word, scary.
I mean, that's that's the definition of fear.
But I think what you're saying is to pushthrough, we have to we have to be on point.
We can't go we can't go into chapter 16 with,you know, 10 of the 15 chapters mastered.
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Fears are gonna defeat us because there'ssomething in all the other chapters.
And they're you know, I'm a broken record, butthey're in order.
They're in order for a reason, and this one ishere for a reason because this can derail all
that work.
You have to outwit the six ghosts, as you said.
Yes.
And instead of having fear because when we havefear, we give our power to something else, to
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outside circumstances or people or events.
But instead of that, we can takeresponsibility.
And take this responsibility and understandthat now we have the road map.
Now we know how to be successful.
So our total focus should only on implementingthese steps, and no will save you from
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accepting the responsibility if you now fail orrefuse or demand reaches of of life because
acceptance calls for but one thing.
Incidentally, the only thing control, and thatis a state of mind.
So you can control what to choose, how to feel.
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You can be happy where you are and expectbetter thing.
And having this road map knowing what you'regoing to do and see your success.
Live from that place already.
Live and feel how your life will be from thewish which fulfilled.
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Yeah.
I I love this.
I love strategies.
I love when you can take something from achapter and implement it.
It's not it's not this you know, it's it'ssomething concrete.
There's actionable steps you can take.
Right?
He tells us, take inventory of yourselfintentionally with respect to fear.
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And, you know, ask yourself, do I suffer fromany of the six fears?
Well, before you can ask yourself thatquestion, you gotta know what those six fears
and what the symptoms are.
But then ask yourself, do I frequentlyprocrastinate?
Do I tolerate negative influences?
Because talk about giving up something.
Have you ever had to just remove a negativeperson from your life?
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And that can be hard if it's someone that hasbeen a big part of your life to that point.
But the person you're becoming, you know,you're now a butterfly, and this caterpillar
wants you to stay being a caterpillar.
And that's just not who you are anymore.
But if you're tolerating negative influences,that would be like a caterpillar just walking
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around on the ground like I mean, a a butterflywalking around on the ground when it has wings
now.
It has a purpose that's different than it usedto be.
Yes.
And only a conscious analysis will disclose thepresence of these universal enemies.
When you begin such an analysis, search deeplyinto your character.
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Here is a list of the symptoms for which youshould look.
And this is the these are the symptoms.
First is indifference, indecision, doubt,worry, overcaution, procrastination.
So analyze if you have any of these symptoms.
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Yes.
Because this is symptoms of these enemies whichact behind our conscious.
Well, you have to you know, there's some selfdiscipline here.
Right?
And and you have to monitor your emotionalstate, which, you know, life happens.
Sometimes we get busy.
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It's not always you know, you have to make timefor this.
You have to pay attention to this becausethings can be going great until they're not.
And if we weren't, you know, monitoring, weweren't you know, intentionally, using self
awareness, we miss opportunities to replacethat fear with things like faith, purpose, and,
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you know, what I love is definiteness.
I love there's no doubt.
I love knowing an outcome.
That's that that's something I find comfort in.
So my goals are usually about to where theoutcome is not in doubt.
I don't like to gamble or, you know, gowherever the wind takes me.
I like to have a definiteness, and thatdefiniteness to me needs to translate to more
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of a definiteness of my purpose and connectionwith what my goals are.
Yes.
And, also, I like how Napoleon highlighted herethat a state of mind is something that one
assumes.
Just think about it.
You assume something already have or assume whoyou become, and you don't need material things
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to assume.
Yes.
It is totally free.
You can just think what you want, who you wantto become, assume what you already have that
and that you already became that person, and,what does your life look like?
And then do everything, think from that place,act from the place, feel feel those emotions
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which you have, everything from that place.
And this is how you will be fueled because thatyou have that big vision, you have that big
desire.
It give you enough fuel to overcome fear anddoubt.
And also interesting mhmm.
Well, just to add to what you say, I mean, Hillargues, and I agree, that success is just as
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much about the elimination of mental poisons asit is about action and planning, the fuel.
The fuel is like every chapter until now, butit's like the book is in two halves.
There's the the fuel, and then there's the, theelimination of the poison.
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The poison being the fear.
But if you don't conquer fear, you can't fullygrow rich mentally, spiritually, or materially.
And this, you know, like, this last chapter isis it's a conclusion, but it's a it's a
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warning.
And also And I think
it's very people read this book again and againand again because this last chapter is almost
like a cliffhanger that makes you you know,normally, cliffhanger makes you wanna read the
sequel.
This cliffhanger makes you wanna watch thererun.
It makes you wanna what did I not get inchapter one, two, three, four, five, six?
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You know?
Because I didn't know this about fear.
I hadn't been exposed to this concept yet.
So how will I read chapter four after knowingthis?
Probably differently.
And that's why I think I get somethingdifferent out of this book every single time I
read it.
But this last chapter is almost like theintroduction.
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You know, it just hooks you.
Mhmm.
Yes.
And I want to come back again to the state ofmind.
That state of mind is something that oneassumes, and it cannot be purchased.
It must be created.
This is very powerful.
You just think about this.
You cannot buy state of mind, and it alsodoesn't come to you automatically.
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It is not that you were born with right stateof mind.
And, of course, we know that there is so manydifferent viruses we collect, and, we have
everything inside us.
And we have to create the right state of mind.
Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothingelse, and other fears.
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It is all state of mind.
And these fears paralyzes the faculty ofreason, destroys the faculty of imagination,
heal of self reliance, undermines enthusiasm,discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of
purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes outenthusiasm, and makes self control an
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impossibility.
Yeah.
This is all negative negative effects of fears.
So because we know that we can create and webecome aware now of this.
Yeah.
So this is it also brings responsibilitybecause now we cannot blame somebody that or,
like, I'm not successful or I'm not richbecause politicians or because economy and
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because my family.
No.
Now you have this road map.
You have this, like, campus.
Campus which show to the way, and you have totake total responsibility of how you implement
these principles because now you have them.
It just go again from chapter one and startimplementing implementing and really analyze
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deep how you change every of theseimplementations.
It's how your life changes, how you change, howyou start think different.
Yes.
So that you think from power, from abundance,from success, and see how your life will start
changing.
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Well, I you know, the the the chapter's clear.
The the fear is the root of our failures, andawareness of that is is our power.
The six fears, I like how they're laid out.
They make sense to me.
They're universal.
But like you said, there's the mentaldiscipline is the key.
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Right?
Everyone experiences these fears.
You're not unique if you have these fears, butnot everyone conquers them.
That's why it says awareness is power.
You can't conquer it if you're not aware ofthem, but this the end of this chapter to me is
a call to courage.
And that's what's inspire hopefully, I hopepeople listening to this and people reading
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this book for the first time feel like I do.
They read this chapter.
It makes them want to read the book again.
But this is a call to courage.
You the chapter itself is like a philosophicaland emotional climax.
The the chapter itself challenges us to make afinal leap into self belief and fearless
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action.
And that takes strength, and the strength isprovided in the previous chapters, which is why
now that you know what you're fighting against,you wanna go find out how to all the different
ways to win and succeed in this fight, but it'sall all of this is between your ears.
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It's in our heads.
It's in our minds.
It's like you said, it assumes.
We make a lot of assumptions, and some of themaren't right.
Yes.
And, also, I liked how Napoleon said in thischapter that life is not the same.
It is we exist in different parallel worlds.
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It's like one situation happens, but, differentpeople who are in this situation, for them, the
situation is different because this is how theyassume.
Right?
This is how they look at things.
They look at things through the prism of theirbeliefs, through the prism of their habits and
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their background.
There's all these called paradigms.
Yes.
So you can always choose how to look at things.
You can always choose how to be empowered.
Yes.
And knowing what we discussed as principles nowsets you so much ahead of people who don't know
this, yes, and brings you that feeling of beingin control because now you know how to ride the
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horse.
Yes.
Like, how to manage all these, all theseinvisible forces which pull you back.
Right?
So when you master this, you can be muchfurther than you could ever think before
without having this knowledge.
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And you don't have to be a master.
And I I I sometimes remind people of this.
You don't have to be a master.
Success in in life, success in business,success in sometimes, it's not a competition.
But in many times, the reality is it is acompetition for you to have to get that client
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or to date that person or to have that thing.
It means someone else can't have it.
So there's sometimes there's competition.
Well, you don't necessarily have to be a masterof all things presented here to win the
competition.
You just have to be a little bit better thanthe person you're competing against.
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And implementing the principles in this book,even just a little bit, not, I mean, not, like,
really doing it and going over the top like youand I do, but just implementing the principles
in this book and and having the awareness andthe tools to fight fear is going to make you
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better and more equipped if you're ever inthose situations that are competitive.
And when they're not competitive, well, great.
Your right.
Your your desire is clear.
Your subconscious is not polluted, and you'veconquered your fears.
But you don't have to be an expert in allthings to win, and winning is sometimes
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required to push through the next levels ofother things.
And it's not where it's not an unfairadvantage.
It's just when you take when you take theinitiative and you have the discipline to
better yourself, you're putting yourself inposition to succeed where others aren't doing
that.
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Yes.
And it it really gives the confidence when youknow that you can do that.
You can achieve your goals.
You can achieve your dreams.
You can achieve that level of financialfreedom, and it all depends on So now when you
have this knowledge, you should feel empowered.
Yes.
Because you have no excuses.
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You cannot say, like, something is controllingyour results.
Now you know that your thoughts, your feelings,your actions, your discipline, having big
desire, and, different tools which you receivedin this course from this book will equip you to
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achieve your goals, to be successful, and, ofcourse, to grow, yes, to to live life with
fulfillment and happiness in different areas ofyour life.
I agree.
I agree.
I'm a little part of me is sad that we're atthe end of this book, Alina.
We we've kinda we've gone through so manydifferent concepts, and we and, I mean, these
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are all concepts that I was familiar with.
But having these discussions and talking abouton this level and then having others, you know,
following.
And, you know, just this morning, I wasreading, you know, page after page of of work
that I saw that someone did, and it's justlike, how much improvement is that individual
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gonna see as a result of coming through thisjourney with with us.
Yes.
So today, we have the last homework for thisweek, and this is analyzing yourself, analyzing
which fears you have, what dominating thoughtsyou have, what is related to your goals.
Identify them.
Write them down.
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Analyze which where are those three enemiessuch as indecision, doubt, fear show themselves
in your life.
Also, analyze which fear you have from thosesix which we mentioned, and just assume assume
what you want to have.
Replace those Mhmm.
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Replace those negative thoughts with thoseideas which you want, which will empower you,
which will inspire you, and which will help youto to be in control and succeed.
I think it's helpful to write, and I've donethis.
That's why I say it's helpful because it washelpful.
Write the six fears down after you understandthem, and then write an example of where you've
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experienced this fear and it's made an impact.
Some some might be really easy.
Some might make you really have to dig deep.
But if you go through that exercise and youidentify those fears and you own them, that's
the hard part.
The easy part is overcoming them.
The hard part is seeing them and being honestand admitting to them.
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And I I, you know, shine a light on them.
See, this is just a fear, and a fear is a fearis in between my ears.
It's something I made up.
It's not real.
It might be based on something that's real, butmore often than not, it's based on another
fear, not the actual threat that you'reclaiming is the problem.
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Yes.
This all state of mind.
This is assumption.
And you also can analyze the situation when youhad fear and how you acted.
And look at the situation from differentperspective.
Think if you knew this, what you learned now,what you know now, how you could act different
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if you didn't let that fear dominate?
What would be outcome of that situation?
Analyze those situations and make decision howyou will decide and how you will act in future
empowered by the knowledge which you received.
It's brilliant.
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The ghost of fear haunt everyone.
But with awareness and practice, you can banishthem.
That was the last note I wrote in my notebook.
Yes.
So have the fear and do it anyway.
Yes.
Face the fear, and it will disappear.
Disappear.
Master yourself.
Master your thoughts.
Master your state of mind, and this is the keyto success.
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And, again, we urge you to finish here, but tostart the book again, go through first chapter,
and, really focus on implementing each andevery principles which we learned.
And don't just don't just do it again.
I encourage you if you feel like I did.
I just felt moved to share this book with asmany people as I could.
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I encourage you to do the same because it's itreally feels good when you're talking to
someone who's read the book for the first time,and then they start coming to you as if you're
the expert on all of these things because tothem, you are.
And it really it really pushes the lessons.
It really pushes the the truths that are inthis book deeper and deeper, and it becomes
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more and more a part of you.
And that's a good thing.
Yes.
And, of course, if you found this programbeneficial for you when you gained knowledge
and other positive things, and you can alsorefer it to other people.
Yes?
Introduce this program, and, of course, give usfeedback if you have any questions.
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We're always happy to support.
And no doubt we'll be doing something similarwith future books.
And I would love to know what books the peoplelistening to us would recommend to us to do
this same sort of series with because I knowI've got a list of books that in my head, and I
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know, Alina, you got a list of books in yourhead.
And we've seen each other's list, and they'revery similar.
There's a lot of the same books on both lists.
This one was just at the top of both of ours.
But there's there's some really goodinformation out there, and even even just
reading it sometimes isn't enough.
You have to be able to discuss it and bounceideas and listen to others and go deeper.
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Give yourself homework and give yourself areason.
But, stay tuned because we'll have, without adoubt, future programs just like this that, you
know, are helping you.
Breaking barriers is a thing, and I pray thateveryone who's gone on this journey with us so
far is seeing that that truth is actually true.
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Yes.
Of course.
And join the community of like minded people.
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