Think and grow rich , chapter 11

Hey. My view on it is simple. If you get a huge dopamine hit every time you O, that will make other things 'blander'. Like a chain reaction it will affect your motivation and self-talk. This will hamper all other nuggets of wisdom in the other chapters to some degree.

(1) If you have a wife who knows this and both your goals are in line, the love you have for each other can steer this force (a.k.a both of you can be sexually fulfilled through less O or desensitising sexuality in general and more bonding with cuddles and eye contact etc.). She can be your 'mental guardian' so to say at least through those horny years.

(2) If you're single. Know that you will always need to get that oh so sweet fix, so if you don't get that hit, it's gonna throw a huge spanner into your life patterns. Your motivation and self-talk will be on point as long as you feed your 'other side'. It really removes the sexually passionate gratification you get from doing 'mundane yet meaningful to you' tasks. (Yes, some can get sexual gratification by finishing a report, making an awesome vegetarian spaghetti and meatballs for the family or wining a $5 pot in poker).

Summary: People can get deeply gratified to the point of mild sexual pleasure by doing non-sexual things that they want to do. P kind of robs you of that by giving you such a hard hit of sexual pleasure that it desensitises your 'happiness' for the simple things. Thus, messing with your self-talk and motivation in general. {{If you have such high expectations to make you feel something because your used to feeling something extreme... one word, DRAMA}} Just my 2cents, hope it helps.

 

was the author of this book rich? besides making money from what he wrote?

 

i don't recommend this kind of books

 

Have you read anything else on the subject, like Eastern thought? I scanned it real quick just now and it doesn't seem like it's very specific, though I do understand that book is considered a classic in general.

 

I have read the book and this chapter makes more sense to me now. I have been recovering for more than 3 months now and although I have had my setbacks I can positively say that besides the improvement of my self esteem and sense of self worth I am certainly putting more energy into not only my work but also hobbies that have fallen by the wayside over the years. Yes, the energy is being re-channeled.

 

The author was an advisor to Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie was the inspiration behind the idea of the book but was also the person who ensured that the author wrote it.

 

Great book and I agree with the chapter since I started nofap I've had great success in healing long term injuries in my body and I believe sex transmutation helped a great deal.

 

Yes, Think and Grow Rich is absolutely a classic. Yes, read the book and yes if you are able, practice sex transmutation. It is in my opinion the most powerful technique for consciously creating your life.

 

The book is very dated and pretty common-sense. It doesn't take a genius to realize that passion, determination, and a plan are important ingredients in becoming wealthy. But the chapter on transmutation has a lot of truth to it.

I recently posted a bunch of the best excerpts from that chapter, for anyone who's interested but doesn't want to track down the book itself:

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...-excerpt-on-transmutation.109972/#post-909980