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Think and Grow Rich test: Does life seem futile and hopeless?

September 27, 2009 by JD
Filed under: Books, Self-Improvement, Success and Failure 

My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test

Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill’s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich.

There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as I can manage. I may miss a day here or there, but I’m going to follow through until I reach the end of the test.

I’ve started the series of posts with:

Think and Grow Rich self-assessment test

Question Number 6. Does life seem futile and hopeless to you?

I’ll have to admit to feeling this way now and then, but not very often. There may have been a half-dozen times over the last 30 years that I felt this way. In most cases, it was a feeling I was able to overcome in a few days or a couple of weeks, at most.

In almost all cases, this was preceded by dramatic, life-changing events, some of which hit me out of the blue with little warning. Some of these events were breaking up with one of the loves of my life, divorce, bankruptcy, and an unexpected downturn in my business.

Only once, that I can remember, did this feeling of despair and hopelessness overtake me for no specific reason that I could identify.

Even when things are going poorly, I still try my best to remain positive, hopeful, and optimistic.

There are times when I struggle with this, however, but still don’t descend into the depths of depression.

I can’t take all the credit, however. I was fortunate to be born into a loving family, have had great friends, have been able to do what I want most of the time, and live in a country that is blessed with peace and good fortune.

I’m not sure how well I would cope if I had lived under different circumstances. If I lived in a place torn asunder by war, famine, poverty, disease, and all the other ills I could name, it would have been much, much more difficult to have my current outlook on life.

I admire, greatly, people who have gone through those adverse conditions and still were able to rise to great heights.

What about you?

Does life seem futile and hopeless to you?

Act on your dream!

JD

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One Comment on Think and Grow Rich test: Does life seem futile and hopeless?

  1. Mitch on Thu, 8th Oct 2009 10:22 pm

    2. This one is easy to answer; nope! No matter what’s going on in my life, good or bad, I never feel like I don’t have a chance to turn things around, or to make them better. I always think that of the world in general also.

    That’s the optimist in me.
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