Mindset Mastery 20 - Three Feet From Gold

The next of Napoleon Hill’s anecdotes is presented as a direct contrast to the definite thought, purpose, and determination of Edwin C Barnes . He calls this story “Three Feet From Gold”; most of us can see quite a lot of our past limited successes within the telling of this story. “One of the most common reasons people fail is that they quit when faced with temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. What follows is a case in point. “An uncle of R.U. Darby was caught by the “gold feverâ€� in the days of the great gold-rush, and went west to dig and grow rich. He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with a pick and a shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite. “After weeks of labor, he was rewarded with the discovery of the elusive shining ore. He needed machinery to bring th...