How to Develop Creative Power Using Think and Grow Rich Principles

"think and grow rich" chapter 11 Jul 18, 2025

"The creative faculty becomes more alert and receptive to vibrations, originating outside the individual’s subconscious mind, the more this faculty is used, and the more the individual relies upon it, and makes demands upon it for thought impulses. This faculty can be cultivated and developed only through use." Page 164 “Think and Grow Rich.”

Creativity Grows Through Faithful Use and Demand

Hill is saying something truly empowering here:

  • Your creative mind isn’t fixed; it expands with use.
  • It activates when you trust it.
  • It answers when you call on it consistently.

Just like a muscle strengthens through training, your creative mind becomes sharper and more intuitive the more you rely on it, especially when you do so with belief and urgency.

How This Strengthens Your 6-Step Plan from Chapter 2

Step 1. Clear Desire: A specific goal focuses your creative energy like a laser.

Step 4. Create a Plan: When you're stuck or unsure what steps to take, it’s your creative faculty that delivers those intuitive insights if you’ve trained it to respond.

Step 6. Repetition with Emotion: Repetition with belief signals to your subconscious that you’re serious — and begins to attract solutions and ideas from sources beyond your conscious reasoning.

Renee, was launching an online course and kept hitting a creative block when trying to structure her messaging. She had followed the 6-step formula but didn’t trust herself to develop “good ideas.” Until she focused on this:

  • Daily repetition of her goal with more emotional intensity
  • Journaling intuitive thoughts without overthinking them
  • Spending time in silence each day (no distractions) to “listen” for new ideas

Within a week, she outlined her entire course in one sitting. She said: “It was like the pieces had been waiting, they just dropped in when I got quiet and trusted myself.”

That’s Hill’s creative faculty at work. It wasn’t random. It was earned through daily mental training.

Your best ideas are already trying to reach you, but they can only arrive through a mind prepared to receive.

The 6-step plan is not just about goal setting. It’s about:

  • Activating your creative faculty
  • Deepening your belief
  • Making regular demands on your intuition
  • And trusting that the right ideas will come — because you're prepared and open

This quote reminds us that genius, innovation, and progress are available to everyone who commits to the practice of mental discipline and creative trust.

Ask yourself:

  • Am I consistently asking my creative mind for ideas and direction?
  • Do I give it time, space, and silence to respond?
  • Do I trust my inner impulses, or constantly second-guess them?

If not, start today:

  • Read your written goal aloud with energy and belief.
  • Sit in silence afterward for a few minutes.
  • Jot down any insights or ideas that surface without judgment.
  • Repeat this process daily.
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The more you use your creative faculty, the sharper and more generous it becomes.

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