Outwitting the Devil: The Complete Text, Reproduced from Napoleon Hill's Original Manuscript, Including Never-Before Published Content (Official Publication of the Napoleon Hill Foundation) Hardcover – January 19, 2021

A must read for those with an open mind

This is a great book! Changed my mindset on certain things. If you are a book reader, this is one you don't want to miss.

Great read

Order came in time, this is the book that will change your life

While reading Outwitting the Devil, I understood why this could not be published until now. The contents of this book, a mix of fact, social commentary, and allegory, may be Napoleon Hill's most explicit, critical, and liberated expression of his thoughts.Hill wrote this manuscript after downturns in his life, especially the Great Depression. He lost him home, income, and the motivation to follow his own teachings. Outwitting the Devil is about getting back on your feet after a fall.The format of this book, the interview or dialogue, reminded me of the screenplay-like Interior Chinatown, the morality plays of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, and Voltaire’s philosophical tale, Candide.I wondered if any of his interviews of successful people were driven by his imagination as was this interview with the Devil. The Interview may have been his tool for self-help. But no matter. Outwitting the Devil is easy to read, entertaining, and relevant to life.I must cultivate my garden.

Perhaps a take on motivation that you’ve not yet heard. As well, this book may turn your traditional assumptions upsidedown regarding how and what makes you productive.If you’ve read Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, this book will help to fill in some of the gray areas

Hill contradicts himself quite a bit in this book. For example he talks about dreams and how they contain things we think about, he also talks a lot about behaviors and thought patterns that humans preform unconsciously, but he later makes the claim that humans do not have a subconscious mind.There’s many instances of stuff like this where he acknowledges the existence of a concept when it supports his belief, but in another instance where his beliefs are in conflict with the concept he will dismiss it.All of this from a man who is writing a book about having the utmost control over one’s own thinking and reasoning capabilities.That was the only disappointing part of the book for me. Overall it’s pretty interesting and worth reading.

You don't have to believe that he actually interviewed the Devil. The soundness of the life principles are there to ponder and to make use of when one sees fit to. The truth of the evidence is all around us, every day.