How to Unlock Invisible Success Using Napoleon Hill’s 6-Step Plan

"think and grow rich" chapter 13 Aug 03, 2025

Have you ever felt there’s more to success than hustle and spreadsheets? You’re right. Most people only trust what they can see, hear, or touch, but the greatest breakthroughs come from tapping into what can’t be measured.

Napoleon Hill reveals this insight in Chapter 13 of Think and Grow Rich when he writes:

“Through the ages which have passed, man has depended too much upon his physical senses, and has limited his knowledge to physical things, which he could see, touch, weigh, and measure.” Page 188 “Think and Grow Rich.”

I believe this quote contains a golden key. When understood properly, it elevates how you apply Hill’s 6-step plan for accumulating wealth and allows you to build not just external success, but internal certainty and momentum.

Why This Quote Matters for Today’s Entrepreneur

So many people get stuck because they’re waiting for “evidence” before taking action. They want the results before they develop the belief. But Hill challenges that mindset.

He’s telling us that true knowledge and true power, begins with unseen forces:

  • Thoughts
  • Beliefs
  • Desires
  • Creative imagination
  • Faith and emotion

These aren’t just “woo-woo” ideas. They’re the raw materials that build your reality. If you only trust your five senses, you’ll always play small. But if you engage your subconscious, trust your intuition, and act with faith, you’ll unlock the invisible realm where ideas, wealth, and opportunity are born.

How This Enhances Your 6-Step Plan from Chapter 2

Now here’s the key: If you limit yourself to what feels realistic based on what your senses tell you, you’ll play it safe. You’ll lower your goal, doubt your plan, and struggle with consistency.

But when you engage the unseen faculties, imagination, faith, auto-suggestion, and emotion, you begin to create new realities, not just react to old ones.

That’s when the magic happens.

Practical Steps to Activate This Principle

  1. Stretch your vision. Don’t just think about what’s “possible.” Think about what’s desirable. Your goal must come from imagination first, not logic alone.
  2. Use auto-suggestion with emotion. The repeated, emotional reading of your goal statement is how you influence your subconscious, which doesn’t care about logic, it responds to belief and emotion.
  3. Trust inspiration. When you get a “gut feeling” or a creative idea, follow it. That’s your higher mind communicating what your senses can’t perceive.
  4. Stay aligned. Regular meditation, visualization, and affirmations keep you open to intuitive guidance; essential tools for tuning in to what Napoleon Hill calls “Infinite Intelligence.”

Logic Builds Safety, Imagination Builds Wealth

Most people stay stuck in comfort zones because they won’t act unless they can “see” the results in advance. But in business, the biggest breakthroughs often come from a place of faith-fueled action, where you trust your higher faculties, not just the facts.

When you go beyond what your five senses tell you, you begin to unlock what Hill called the “sixth sense.” This is a creative channel to solutions, ideas, and opportunities others miss.

The Real Success Formula is Internal First

If you're committed to using Napoleon Hill's 6-step plan, remember this:

  • What you cannot see is just as important, if not more, than what you can.
  • Stop waiting for proof. Start creating it. Your subconscious, imagination, and belief are tools more powerful than any spreadsheet or business plan.

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