"Transformation of intangible impulse of DESIRE into the tangible reality of MONEY calls for the use of a plan or plans. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly the synthetic faculty." - Napoleon Hill, #TGR

I have been reading Napoleon Hill's Think & Grow Rich for two months now. What appealed to me was the inclusion of Desire as a necessary virtue for achieving success. Too many philosophies treat the negation of desire as a kind of virtue for achieving goals, BUT what is even the point of achieving a goal which you did not desire? It's just deception to pretend you don't desire something to remain calm and achieve it. In other words, at best, it's a kind of temporary dissociation to trick your own mind into giving you what you want from it. However, the truth is that this is a kind of unearned reprieve, because the reason why we evolved to have desires and obsessions is that we need them to survive and thrive. Discipline is remembering what you want so if you try to forget what you love and succeed to get rid of your desires then you might as well be dead, and if a civilisation falls for these ideas then it goes the same for it.