- AUTHOR: Napoleon Hill
- PUBLISHER: Sterling
Staff Writer
With Halloween season upon us, “Outwitting the Devil” by Napoleon Hill is a must-read for college students interested in the roots of human potential and how to avoid the pitfalls placed before us along the way.
“I cannot control you because you have discovered your own mind and you have taken charge of it,” the Devil says, who is the main character of the book.
His new book, written on a manual typewriter in 1938, had been locked away and hidden by Hill’s family for 72 years. The family was worried because Hill took a very controversial approach in writing the book — he wrote the book as a dialogue between himself and the Devil, as a way to walk people through their evils.
The book explains the process of mental negative entanglement and the techniques used to highjack a person’s ability to think clearly. Once people start to get entangled, they end up drifting with the Devil into a hell on Earth.
Despite the long delay in its publication, this book is timeless, and very telling.
The Devil of Hill’s book admits to injecting negative thoughts into our thought process in hopes of gaining the upper hand.
“To be sure, I employ tricks and devices to control human thought. My devices are clever ones, too,” said Hill’s Devil.
Hill is very creative in explaining the thinking process that holds people back. He does a masterful job at using dialogue to help uncover a process that we do automatically without much understanding of the mechanisms that control our thinking and behavior.
And the controversy lives on. Did Hill really talk to the Devil, or is this book made up? He leaves it up to the reader to decide. If you can look past the controversy and dig into the outwitting-the-devil dialogue, you might discover a few things that you didn’t know.
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