Desire by Brandon

I was going to do a reviews for the books on my favorite books list but I am now reading through Think and Grow Rich again and I realized that it is so full jam-packed with good information that instead I could just do brief summaries of each chapter individually, so this is the first one. I am going to start with the chapter on desire with is actually the second chapter because the first is kind of an introduction.

Desire is the number one most important thing for any kind of success. If you don't have any desire to accomplish anything than you will not have the willpower or follow-through to be a success at whatever you want.

In the book Think and Grow Rich it tells a story of a great warrior who was taking his men into battle against an enemy that far outnumbered them. He need a way to ensure that him and his men would have victory in the upcoming battle. So he ordered that the ships they sailed on be burn cutting of any possible way of retreat. As he and his men stood on the shore watching their ships burn he turned to them and said, "You see the ships going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win - or we perish. Needless to say they won.

That is the type of attitude one needs to have if they expect to succeed at anything. You will need to cut off all hope of retreat leaving victory as your only option. If yo try to enter into any type of endeavor with out having "burned your ships" how will you ever be able to move forward.

If you know what you want and have a burning desire to see it through to the end than nothing can stop you. A person with definiteness of purpose back by a burning desire is one of the greatest force known. It was these traits that allowed Wright Brothers to build and fly the first airplane. It was these traits that took Thomas Edison from being someone who people thought was mentally inept to becoming known as one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century. And it is desire that will get you to wherever you want to go in life.

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