Habit of Going the Extra Mile | Napoleon Hill's Master Key Series | Episode 3
Summary
TLDRNapoleon Hill, renowned author of 'Think and Grow Rich', shares the success principle of 'going the extra mile' in this inspirational talk. He introduces the 'QQMA' formula, emphasizing the importance of quality, quantity, and mental attitude in service to achieve success. Hill outlines the benefits of this habit, including attracting opportunities, earning higher compensation, and developing leadership. He encourages listeners to practice this principle deliberately for a week to experience a transformation in their personal and professional lives, promising to reveal the master key to success in the next session.
Takeaways
- 🚀 The habit of going the extra mile is a key principle for success, which involves providing more and better service than expected with a positive attitude.
- 📈 The QQMA formula (Quality + Quantity + Mental Attitude) determines the space one occupies in their chosen calling and the compensation received.
- 🔍 Observing unusually successful people reveals that they often follow the QQMA formula, even if unconsciously.
- 👀 Going the extra mile brings you to the attention of those who can provide opportunities for self-promotion.
- 💰 The natural law of increasing returns means that the service you render will bring back greater than average compensations.
- 🔑 Following this habit makes you indispensable in your occupation, allowing you to 'write your own ticket'.
- 💼 It provides job security during times when others may be laid off due to slack work.
- 🌟 The law of contrast benefits those who go the extra mile, as they stand out among those who do not.
- 🧠 Developing a keen, alert imagination is a benefit of this habit, as it encourages seeking new and better ways to render service.
- 💪 The habit fosters self-reliance and courage to move ahead without fear of criticism, which is essential for leadership.
- 🔄 It helps to master the destructive habit of procrastination, which is often a leading cause of failure.
- 🤝 The habit influences others to respect your integrity and cooperate with you in a friendly spirit.
- 🎯 Developing definiteness of purpose is facilitated by this habit, which is the starting point for personal success.
- 💰 The habit provides a valid reason for asking for a promotion or higher pay, as it demonstrates value beyond the current compensation.
- 🧲 It conditions the mind to maintain a mastermind alliance with others, which is crucial for success.
- 🌱 The principle of going the extra mile is in harmony with natural laws, as illustrated by the farmer's efforts in producing food.
- 📝 The speaker suggests a one-week experiment of rendering unexpected service to others to experience the benefits of this habit firsthand.
Q & A
Who is the speaker in the transcript?
-The speaker in the transcript is Napoleon Hill, the author of 'How to Raise Your Own Salary', 'Think and Grow Rich', and other inspirational books.
What is the main principle discussed in the transcript?
-The main principle discussed in the transcript is the habit of going the extra mile, which involves rendering more and better service than expected with a positive mental attitude.
What is the QQMA formula mentioned by Napoleon Hill?
-The QQMA formula stands for Quality of service plus Quantity of service plus Mental attitude, which determines the space one occupies in their chosen calling and the compensation received.
According to the transcript, why is the habit of going the extra mile important for personal advancement?
-The habit of going the extra mile is important for personal advancement because it brings one to the favorable attention of others, leads to greater compensations, makes one indispensable in their occupation, and helps to master the habit of procrastination, among other benefits.
What are some benefits of following the habit of going the extra mile as listed in the transcript?
-Some benefits include gaining opportunities for self-promotion, receiving greater than average compensations, becoming indispensable in one's occupation, improving personality and likability, developing a keen imagination, and inspiring personal initiative.
How does the transcript suggest one can apply the habit of going the extra mile in their daily life?
-The transcript suggests starting by rendering some form of useful service to someone nearby that one is not expected to render, without expecting or asking for compensation, and doing so with a pleasing mental attitude.
What is the significance of the QQMA formula in determining one's success in their chosen field?
-The QQMA formula is significant because it encompasses the key elements that contribute to success: the quality and quantity of service rendered, as well as the mental attitude with which the service is provided.
What does Napoleon Hill suggest as a practical exercise to experience the benefits of going the extra mile?
-Napoleon Hill suggests a practical exercise where one renders useful service to someone without expecting compensation for seven days consecutively, observing the changes in their atmosphere and relationships.
How does the transcript relate the habit of going the extra mile to the law of increasing returns?
-The transcript relates the habit of going the extra mile to the law of increasing returns by stating that the service rendered will bring back greater than average compensations, illustrating the principle that more effort leads to greater rewards.
What is the connection between going the extra mile and developing leadership qualities as per the transcript?
-The connection is that going the extra mile inspires personal initiative, which is the first step in leadership. It also develops greater self-reliance and courage to move ahead without fear of criticism from others.
Why does Napoleon Hill emphasize the importance of a positive mental attitude in the context of going the extra mile?
-Napoleon Hill emphasizes the importance of a positive mental attitude because it enhances the quality of service, makes the act of going the extra mile more enjoyable, and improves personal likability and relationships with others.
Outlines
🚀 The Power of Going the Extra Mile
In this paragraph, Napoleon Hill, introduced by W. Clement Stone, discusses the critical success principle of 'going the extra mile.' This principle is about providing more and better service than expected, with a positive mental attitude. Hill emphasizes that this habit can lead to numerous benefits, such as attracting opportunities, increasing compensation, and becoming indispensable in one's field. He introduces the 'QQMA Formula' to encapsulate the idea, which stands for Quality, Quantity, Mental Attitude. Hill encourages deliberate and purposeful application of this principle to achieve significant personal advancement.
🌟 Benefits of the Extra Mile and Overcoming Procrastination
This paragraph delves into the specific advantages of adopting the habit of going the extra mile. Hill outlines 14 benefits, ranging from gaining the attention of influential people, to developing a strong work ethic and a keen imagination. He also touches on how this habit can lead to personal initiative, self-reliance, and courage. Hill further explains that going the extra mile can help one overcome procrastination, a common cause of failure, and can influence others to respect one's integrity and cooperate willingly. He concludes by highlighting the importance of this habit in personal success and its role in creating one's own opportunities.
🌱 Embracing Nature's Principles for Success
In the final paragraph, Hill uses the metaphor of a farmer's work to illustrate the importance of going the extra mile. He points out that just as a farmer must perform tasks without immediate compensation and trust in nature's cycle to yield a harvest, one must also invest effort without immediate reward in their career. Hill suggests an experiment for the listener: to perform a week of unsolicited, uncompensated acts of service with a positive attitude. He promises that this practice will lead to a more favorable environment and personal happiness, bringing one closer to the 'supreme secret of success.' Hill invites the listener to share their experience after the experiment, setting the stage for further guidance in future discussions.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Success Principle
💡Extra Mile
💡Quality of Service
💡Quantity of Service
💡Mental Attitude
💡QQMA Formula
💡Personal Initiative
💡Promotion
💡Law of Increasing Returns
💡Integrity
💡Mastermind Alliance
Highlights
Introduction of Napoleon Hill by W. Clement Stone, highlighting his inspirational books.
The concept of 'going the extra mile' as a success principle for personal advancement.
The QQMA formula for success, emphasizing quality, quantity, and mental attitude in service.
Unconscious following of the QQMA formula by unusually successful individuals.
Advantages of deliberately applying the 'going the extra mile' habit for self-promotion.
Benefits of the habit including attracting opportunities and increasing returns.
Becoming indispensable in one's occupation by consistently providing exceptional service.
The habit's role in securing job preference during economic downturns.
Utilizing the law of contrast to stand out by going the extra mile.
Improving personality and likability through a pleasing mental attitude in service.
Developing an alert imagination by seeking better ways to render service.
Encouraging personal initiative and self-reliance as a first step in leadership.
Mastering the habit of procrastination by consistently going the extra mile.
Influencing others to respect one's integrity and cooperate through the extra mile habit.
Developing definiteness of purpose as a starting point for personal success.
The habit as a justification for asking for promotions or higher pay.
Conditioning the mind for a mastermind alliance with others through the extra mile habit.
The farmer analogy illustrating the necessity of going the extra mile in nature's laws.
A week-long experiment to practice the extra mile habit and observe its effects.
Invitation to share personal experiences after implementing the extra mile habit.
Promise of revealing the master key to success and a form of power in the next visit.
Transcripts
[Music]
how are you as you know my name is w
Clement stone as general manager of the
Napoleon Hill associates it is my
privilege to once again introduce you to
Napoleon Hill the author of how to raise
your own salary Think and Grow Rich and
many other inspirational books this is
another in a series of inspirational
talks by Napoleon Hill what do you want
money anything money can buy a healthy
body a healthy mind happiness
are you seeking higher spiritual values
anything you desire is available if you
follow the Napoleon Hill formula success
is yours if you are ready and now I
share with you Napoleon Hill how do you
do I'm very happy to have this personal
visit with you won't you be seated
please well this our third visit brings
us to the success principle which has
marked the turning point of every person
who has promoted himself or herself from
the lower brackets of success to the
higher planes of achievement where one
acquires everything he desires this
principle is called the habit of going
the extra mile which means the habit of
rendering more service and better
service than one is expected to render
and doing it in a positive mental
attitude I'm going to tell you all I
know about this magic principle of self
advancement because it is the one rule
you must follow if you expect to write
your own price tag and to be sure of
getting it let me describe this success
principle for you in a brief formula
which you can easily remember I call it
the qqm a formula which means the
quality of service you render plus the
quantity of service you render plus the
mental attitude in which you renders
determines the space you occupy in your
chosen calling and the compensation you
get from your services if you want
examined carefully the people whom you
know to be unusually successful you will
discover that they follow the qqm a
formula although they may do so
unconsciously now I wish to give you a
big advantage over those who follow this
formula unconsciously I wish to show you
how to make use of it deliberately with
purpose of forethought so you may make
the principle pay off in a big way and
do it quickly and now I shall tell you
some of the benefits you will enjoy by
following the habit of going the extra
mile one this habit will bring you to
the favorable attention of those who can
and will provide you with opportunities
to promote yourself into a better
circumstance two it will place back of
you that great natural law of increasing
returns through which the service you
render will bring back greater than
average compensations and three
following this habit will make you
indispensable in your chosen occupation
or calling therefore it will place you
in a position to write your own ticket
and for this habit will help you to
excel in your line of work because each
time you render service you endeavour to
do a better job than you did previously
and five if you work for a salary or
wages this habit will give you
preference when work is slack and others
are laid off and six it will help you to
benefit by the law of contrast because
the others around you will not be going
the first mile let alone the second mile
and seven following this habit of doing
your very best in all of your efforts
and doing it in a pleasing mental
attitude will improve your personality
and make you liked by others and eight
it will also help you to develop a keen
alert imagination because you will be
continuously seeking new and better ways
of rendering useful service 9 it will
inspire you to move on your own personal
initiative instead of waiting to be told
what to do a habit which is the first
step in leadership in all
the habit of going the extra mile
definitely develops greater
self-reliance and gives one more courage
to move ahead without the fear of
criticism from others and here is one
thing it does which if it benefited you
in no other way but justify you in
adopting it it helps you to master the
destructive habit of procrastination
they one habit which heads the list of
causes of failure 12 going the extra
mile influences other people to respect
your integrity and inspire them to go
out of their way to cooperate with you
in a friendly spirit and 13 the habit
helps you to develop definiteness of
purpose which is the starting point of
all personal success and it stops you
from drifting through life without
knowing what you want or where you are
going and number 14 and here is the
grand payoff which this habit gives you
it provides you with the one and only
excuse for asking for a promotion to a
better station in life or a higher pay
obviously if you are doing no more than
you are being paid for and you are
receiving pay for all to which you are
entitled and you have not a single
excuse for asking for more pay or a
better position you understand this
point and appreciate its significance to
your not 15 last but not least the habit
of going the extra mile conditions your
mind to maintain a mastermind alliance
with others ever so often I hear people
complain about their not receiving
favorable breaks in their relations with
others I never hear this sort of
complaint from one of my students of the
science of success nor from anyone who
has ever read any book that I have
written because all of my students have
learned the secret of how to create
their own favorable breaks they do it by
following the habit of going the extra
mile I can tell you frankly I have never
received a major favorable break during
my entire life that did not come from
having applied the approval of going the
extra mile sometimes I hear people
complain also that their positions are
such that they are not permitted to go
the extra mile and my counsel to these
people is always the same
change positions and market your
services where it pays to go the extra
mile I am sincere in giving this advice
because I know that no one can do better
than earn a mere living unless and until
he begins going the extra mile during my
business career I suppose I have
employed at one time or another at least
a score of private secretaries all of
whom followed the habit of going the
extra mile but I have never been able to
keep but one of those secretaries for
more than a year because invariably they
promoted themselves into better paying
jobs elsewhere and they did so with my
full blessings the one exception is my
present chief secretary who has been
with me for over 10 years I married her
to make sure I wouldn't lose her of
course there were other considerations
too and while I am speaking of
secretaries graduating from my service
into better jobs I believe it will
interest you to know that at least 6 of
them finally married the men for whom
they worked after leaving my service
thus it is not unlikely that the habit
of going the extra mile is one of the
surest routes to a desirable marriage by
a young woman secretary who follows this
habit in her secretarial duties the
reason I know definitely that the habit
of going the extra mile is a sound
procedure is the fact that I have
checked this principle as I did all of
the other 16 success principles to make
sure they were in harmony with natural
laws I can give you a fine example of
how nature forces man to go the extra
mile in order that he may produce the
food with which to exist this farmer for
example must follow the habit of
clearing the ground fencing it plowing
it and planting the seed at the right
season of the year all of which he must
do in advance without compensation of
any kind if he does his part of the work
properly he then has the job over to
nature sits down and waits for her to do
her part and within a brief period
nature germinates the seed the farmer
plants matures it
and use back to him the seed he planted
plus perhaps and increase of a hundred
times that amount to compensate him for
having gone the extra mile first we see
that the law of increasing returns comes
to the aid of the man who goes the extra
mile and this principle applies the same
in rendering service in a job as it does
in the fields of a farmer if the farmer
did not follow the habit of going the
extra mile the human race would starve
to death in one season and I am sure you
will agree that anytime we can copy
Mother Nature's habits we will not go
wrong in doing so you now have a
possession of the third principle of
personal achievement which brings you
three steps near the secret by which you
may take possession of the master key to
success in order that you may test the
magic power of this third principle I'm
going to offer you a suggestion which
may bring you such overwhelming success
that you will not need to attend further
visits with me my suggestion is this
first start tomorrow in whatever
occupation you are engaged to render
some form of useful service to someone
near you which you are not expected to
render and for which you neither expect
nor ask for compensation and to render
this service in a pleasing mental
attitude which will show clearly that
you enjoy doing it and three follow this
practice seven days in succession and
then notice what a changed atmosphere
you will enjoy in your association with
those near issue in carrying out these
instructions do not make known your plan
to anyone but go ahead and do it in the
most natural way possible by the end of
the seventh day you will find yourself
so much happier and so much better like
by those around you that you will never
desire to give up the habit then you
will be within the easy reach of the
supreme secret of success which comes
through the master key to success after
you have tried this experiment for one
week will you please write me a personal
letter and tell me exactly what the
experience taught you in my fourth visit
with you I will give you a very definite
as to the means by which you may
appropriate and use the great master key
and in this same clue I will introduce
you to the source of a form of power
which does not recognize the word
impossible and helps you to transmute
all failures and defeats and all
adversities into assets of great benefit
to you and now until our next visit may
I remind you that if you believe it you
can do it
[Music]
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