Famous Multiple Personalities Ideas by Famous Authors in Best Selling Books – Part 1

Posted by J.J. under Books, Personal development, Productivity, Self development | 3 Comments to Read

Each of us has our own distinctive personality traits that can determine our way to success. More people are aware of developing productive traits for personal development in which is required for improving their current status quo at work, life and relationships.

Therefore, motivational books are highly demanded by various forms of people who want to make positive changes in their life. There a few self improvement authors have created several ideas about ‘multiple personality’ or ‘multiple perceptions’ that can improve our ways of dealing with something in terms of:

• Enable us to make wise decision especially in making or finding the ‘right’ solutions.
• Building self-confidence to overcome self-restriction.
• Enable us to achieve our goals by taking productive action.

However, there are some people are skeptical with ideas of practicing ‘multiple personality’ or ‘multiple perceptions’ as both of it are commonly associated with psychological disorders multiple personality disorders, split personalities and schizophrenia.

In fact, here are some well-known authors and their best-selling book who delivers ‘multiple personality’ ideas based on their own context.

• Napoleon Hill –Think and Grow Rich (1937)
• Edward De Bono – Six Thinking Hats (1980s)
• Michael E. Gerber – E-myth (1995)

Napoleon Hill –Think and Grow Rich (1937)

Start with Hill’s Think and Grow Rich that motivates readers to achieve personal and financial goals based on his famous Law of Success philosophy. It is a classic self-improvement book that provides several steps to riches (in terms of financial and personal freedom):

• Step 1: Knowing your desire – in which it is the starting point of all achievement
• Step 2: Ways of developing faith
• Step 3: Auto-suggestion – success comes from your mind
• Step 4: Specialized knowledge – learning how to organize knowledge and use knowledge after they acquire it
• Step 6: Imagination – how to make practical use of imagination
• Step 7: Organized planning
• Step 8: Decision – learn to make decision and overcome procrastination
• Step 9: Persistence – making sustainable actions in order to generate long-term results
• And many more…

I personally think that the current best-selling self-improvement book – The Secret, which emphasize on ‘The Law of Attraction’ resembles Hill’s ‘The Law of Success Philosophy’. Here’s one excerpt from his book:

“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted”.

It means that you should have a positive mind to think optimistically when you’re facing any predicaments. It is exactly what ‘The Law of Attraction’ meant to encourage readers to think positively in order to truly believe in what they really want by putting more attention on it.

I would find it rather absurd when I read the last chapter – The Sixth Sense. Based on this chapter, readers are required master all steps as mentioned above before they proceed with this practice.

Why do I call this practice developing ‘multiple personalities’?

Hill developed these ‘multiple personalities’ by imitating nine well-known figures that he admired most like:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Edison
• Abraham Lincoln
• Charles Darwin
• Luther Burbank
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Henry Ford
• Andrew Carnegie

It is unimaginable that an influential person like Hill had such imaginary thoughts when he performed endeavor tasks like giving a public speech or writing a line for publication. For instance, when he made decisions, he would organize an imaginary Council meeting involving distinguish members as mentioned above. I personally think it involves more self-hypnosis that delves into the minds of other persons and emulate the other person’s characteristics, common behavior and thinking.

I just don’t buy into his ‘Sixth Sense’ idea as it does not fit the modern era. It means that people are more convinced with more technical ways of self-development that involves thorough research, published journals and other related academic resources. Nevertheless, Think and Grow Rich emphasizes the ‘Law of Success Philosophy’ in which also resembles to the ‘Law of Attraction’ which are widely used by esoteric writers.

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