Wealth Creation: Why Wealth Without Women Is Useless
This idea that creating wealth without women is useless is a truly fascinating concept that does not appear in most books on how to get rich / create wealth. Napoleon Hill, in his seminal book How to Get Rich “Think and Grow Rich”, devotes an entire chapter to what he calls “The Mystery of Sexual Transmutation.” Here we explore what this means and why wealth without women is seemingly a fruitless pursuit.
The mystery of sexual transmutation
It may sound like a cross between a pseudo-religious rebirth and some peculiar biological reproductive process, but the concept of “Sexual Transmutation” is easily explained and understood. It simply means channeling the desire for sexual expression into thoughts and activities of another nature (for example, business, art, literature, sports, music, etc.)
Sigmund Freud had a similar idea; that those who accomplished great things did so by redirecting their libidos into positive, creative energy used to pursue some worthwhile passion.
According to Hill, “Men who accumulate great fortunes and reach great heights of power and fame, do so primarily to satisfy their desire to please women.” Take women out of their lives and great wealth would be useless to most men.
A man will do anything to win the women he wants. The same goes for women. We have all seen men lose their marbles for women and literally risk their lives and reputations to satisfy that desire. What Napoleon Hill is pondering is this: – If you harness that sexual energy and redirect it, this enormously motivating force of nature can be used to achieve greatness in anything, including creating wealth.
Superpowers aren’t just for superheroes
In case you have any doubts about this theory, Hill went through history and biographies, researching the lives of successful men and women to arrive at this finding. Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, and William Shakespeare, to name just a few, were thought to have a highly sexed nature. When driven by the emotional drive for sexual expression, men and women are endowed with an unstoppable superpower of action.
Essentially, the most accomplished men are men with highly developed sexual natures; men who have learned to channel their desire for physical expression into thoughts of some other nature. “When prompted by this desire,” says Hill, “men develop acuity of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence, and creative ability unknown to them before.”
Since the dawn of civilization, men have tried to please women. In prehistoric times, men hunted and brought meat and skins to their caves to impress the women they desired. Today, gifting luxury cars, jewelry, clothing, and various symbols of wealth are typical outward displays of this desire.
The human mind responds to stimulation
According to Hill, there are 10 stimuli of the mind, 10 compelling desires to which the mind responds more freely. They are: – 1. Sexual expression; 2. Love; 3. Fame / Power / Financial gain; 4. Music; 5. Friendship; 6. Alliances of the Mastermind (between 2 or more people); 7. Mutual suffering; 8. Autosuggestion; 9. Fear; 10. Alcohol and narcotics. Any of these mind stimulants will at least temporarily increase the intensity of thought. Through any of the above sources, one can communicate with the Infinite Intelligence or enter, at will, into the warehouse of the subconscious mind. The most powerful of these stimuli is sexual expression which, when harnessed and transmuted, is capable of transferring man to a higher sphere of thought.
How to achieve greatness and / or become a genius
By Hill’s definition, a genius is someone who “has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge that are not available through the normal pace of thought.” Sounds like a good definition of genius to me! And according to Hill, sexual energy is THE creative energy of all geniuses.
However, the mere possession of this sexual energy is not enough to produce a genie, of course. Otherwise, every walking hormone would be a genius! Energy must be transmuted from sexual desire into some other form of desire and action. First of all, the genie has the ability to stimulate his mind using one of the stimuli described above so that it functions on a higher than average plane. Second, it has the ability to tap into the faculty of creative imagination (or sixth sense), that is, the subconscious mind. To go beyond the limits of conscious thinking and reasoning, one has to harness the powers of the subconscious mind. There are many methods available to do this, but the most widely used is deep relaxation, clearing your mind of conscious thought and then printing images of the desired results (infused with emotion) in the deepest parts of your mind.
Conclusion:
None of this should come as a surprise when you think about it. Sex has been the driving force of creativity, ingenuity, and evolution since we were single-celled amoebae crawling on our bellies in the muddy puddles of primitive civilization. However, what is interesting is the combination of the transmutation of the sexual impulse and the exploration of the creative depths of the subconscious mind.
Find, if you can, a single man (or woman), in the history of civilization, who has achieved outstanding success in any vocation (wealth creation, business, art, music, etc.), who was not driven by a well developed sexual nature. and I’ll eat my hat!