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Think and Grow Rich test: Do you avoid your troubles by being busy?
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:
Question Number 17. Do you avoid your troubles by being busy?
This is another question I can answer easily and definitively.
No, I don’t.
On the other hand, sometimes I avoid my troubles by not thinking about them, but that doesn’t equate to avoiding them by being busy.
Perhaps denial comes in many forms.
To get a little closer to what I think the question means, however, I avoid my troubles in several other ways. I’m sure we all do.
Even though I put them off for awhile, at some point they just have to be addressed, put on the to-do list, and eventually checked off as done. I don’t really know any other way to deal with them.
What about you?
Do you avoid your troubles by being busy?
All the best,
JD
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One Comment on Think and Grow Rich test: Do you avoid your troubles by being busy?
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Mitch on
Sun, 11th Oct 2009 12:25 am
Hi John,
On this one, I’d have to say no for the most part. I follow it up by saying that every once in awhile I find myself doing busy work, stuff that needs to get done, but stuff that I could still possibly hold off because I have other pressing work to get to instead. But I don’t do it all that often anymore.
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