INTRODUCTION TO THE MASTER MIND 7ISexuality and the Master Mind
The great leaders understand the necessity of this recharging process
and, moreover, they understand how to accomplish this result. This
knowledge is the main feature that distinguishes a leader from a follower! Fortunate
is the person who understands this principle sufficiently well to keep his
or her brain vitalized or recharged by periodically connecting it with a
more vital mind.
Sexual contact is one of the most effective of the stimuli through
which a mind may be recharged, providing the contact is intelligently
made, between a man and woman who have genuine affection for each
other. (Any other sort of sexual relationship is a devitalizer of the
mind.) Any competent practitioner of psychotherapy can recharge a
brain within a few minutes.
Before moving on from this brief reference to sexual contact as a
means of revitalizing a depleted mind, it seems appropriate to point
out that all of the great leaders, in whatever walks of life they have
arisen, have been and are people of highly sexed natures.
COMMENTARY
Hill's position on the relationship between sexuality and creativity is complex and
it changes several times throughout his life. While here recommending the bond
between a man and a woman he seems not to feel impelled to recommend that
leaders draw women into their Master Mind groups. In later works, notably Think
and Grow Rich, he alters his position to recommend sublimation of sexual energy.
A factor in this may be that Hill seems to have perceived his audience to be
entirely masculine. (practically speaking, the business climate of the 1920s and
1930s did not encourage independent achievement by women.) In the original
version ofLaw of Success, virtually all examples are of men, and references to
human potentiality are always written with masculine examples. (He talks, for
example, about what a man mayor must do.)