At the Professional Speaking Association meeting in London at the weekend, I recalled, word for word a poem, from a book that I first read 25 years ago. Just one phrase triggered the whole poem, and I recited it to the whole gathering. It came out easily…
The words came from the classic success book ‘Think and Grow Rich’, by Napoleon Hill. One of the stories shared by the author is the true story of R.U. Darby and his Uncle. Over a hundred years ago they were caught up with “gold fever”. They headed west to seek their fortune.
After weeks of labor they were rewarded with an inkling of what they felt might very well turn out to be one of the richest mines in Colorado.
But despite countless days digging and drilling, the profitable vein of gold ore they expected to find, never appeared. Frustrated and discouraged, they sold all their equipment to a junk dealer for a few hundred dollars and headed home.
The wise junk dealer called in a SPECIALIST mining engineer who Read More …



