Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

THE H A 8 ITO F DOl N G M 0 RET HAN P A I D FOR 563

COMMENTARY

It is quite possible that this story became known to Hill when, at the age of fifteen

and looking for an alternative to working in the fields or the coal mines, he went

to work as a reporter for a weekly newsletter that supplied rural news to the many

small newspapers established through the Farmers' Alliance, a forerunner of the

farm co-op.

THE MOTIVATING POWER OF
LOVING WHAT YOU DO
When you are engaged in work that you love, it is no hardship to do
more work and better work than that for which you are paid. For this
reason you owe it to yourself to find the sort of work you like best.
I have a perfect right to offer this advice because I have followed
it myself, without reason to regret having done so.
This seems to be an appropriate place to inject a little personal
history concerning myself and the Law of Success philosophy, in
order to show that labor performed in a spirit of love, for the sake
of the labor itself, never has been and never will be lost. This would
be empty and useless advice had I not practiced this rule long enough
to know how well it works.
For over a quarter of a century I have been engaged in the labor
of love out of which this course has been developed, and I am perfectly
sincere when I say that I would have been amply paid for my labors,
by the pleasure I have had as I went along, even if I had received
nothing more.

COMMENTARY

The most successful people have a passion for what they do, which is what

motivates them to put greater effort and time into whatever it is that they want to

achieve. Few, however, have had the passion and dedication that Napoleon Hill had.