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- Daymond John has regularly read Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich” since he was 14.
- It inspired him to start setting goals as specifically as possible and tracking his progress.
- He has a ritual where he writes his goals down with expiration dates, often holding seven goals at a time.
When Daymond John was 14 years old, his dyslexia had yet to be diagnosed, and he only knew that he struggled with reading. But there was one book, Napoleon Hill’s 1937 inspirational classic “Think and Grow Rich,” that he not only happily read, but decided to re-read every year.
The main takeaway he had as a kid, the “Shark Tank” investor wrote in his book, “The Power of Broke,” was to stop telling himself everything he didn’t want to be, and instead focus on what he did want. He sustained this mindset through the practice of regularly writing down and reviewing his goals.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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