Hello ICA Book Clubbers!
The selection for September is Charles F Haanel’s, “The Master Key System!” (Thank you Ellie for nominating this month’s book)
If anybody has any books that you would like to nominate as future ICA Book Club selections, email Nick at nickbosk@gmail.com
As always….All are invited!! Perhaps you are new to ICA and have yet to join a student activities call. Or you may be an old face around the halls of ICA. YOU are invited to join in the rich discussions and learning that is the BOOK CLUB!!
We meet on the last Tuesday of the month at two different times, pick the one that suits your schedule best.
Tuesday September 25th
8am - 9am NY EST
7pm - 8pm NY EST
Bridge line: +1 712 580 0362
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For dates of future Book Club meetings please refer to the Academic Calendar under “Community Teleclasses.”
Last month’s book, “Think and Grow Rich” was a success in part to a free PDF copy of the book. Well….I searched high and low on the internet and finally found a FREE PDF copy of “The Master Key System”. Click Here
READING ASSIGNMENT:
We will discuss the book in its entirety at our next meeting. When you begin reading you will notice the book is broken up into ‘weekly assignments’ or parts. Do not feel rushed if you would like to read the book in the manner the author originally intended, (one week = one chapter). If you chose to read the book from front cover this month, it is recommended that you mark passages in the book that spoke to you or places that called for more thought so you may come back at a later date.
Happy reading!!
This section is taken from www.empowersu.com
“Charles F. Haanel (1866 - 1949) was a leading American businessman who, having built one of the largest companies in the world at that time, authored several books sharing his life and business success philosophy and techniques.
His first work “The Master Key System” was written sometime between 1909 and 1912 and was produced as a 24 part course delivered to select and wealth readers over 24 weeks.
He mentored the leading business people, and his course supposedly sold for US$1500! (At the time that was equal to over 2 years average working person’s wage).
The story goes that the business people who followed his course became extremely wealthy and demanded Haanel not to release his course to the general public, incase they also profit from it’s powerful secrets.
It took some time, but eventually Haanel released his course in the form of a book which was published in 1919.
The book, “The Master Key System”, reportedly sold over 200,000 copies before supposedly being banned by church authorities in 1933. When you download and read the book for yourself, you’ll discover why the Church was fearful. Haanel challenged some fundamental beliefs which the Church at that time claimed a monopoly on….
And then…well the book seems to have disappeared…till several years ago when some of the handful of copies came to light.
At that point the book seems to have disappeared from records, although a handful of the 200,000 copies are probably still in existence.
Now to the present…
You might very well have been bombarded with information from various sources about “The Secret”. “The Secret” is a movie that premiered worldwide on March 26, 2006, and is promoted as sharing secrets of success, happiness and wealth, that have been passed down through millenia and hidden from the general public.
Well if you didn’t know before, this secret is actually based on Charles F. Haanel’s “The Master Key System”, and focuses heavily on Haanel’s Law of Attraction.
This is no ‘get rich quick’ formula.
When Haanel first released “The Master Key System”, it was as a 24 part course, with each part having a test to show that the user was truly understanding and able to use the teaching.
The same is true today! You want better outcomes, better luck….you have to work at it. If you keep doing the same things, the same results will keep repeating themselves.
I highly recommend “The Master Key System”. It may be challenging to get through. The language is nearly 100 years out of date. The concepts may seem new and ‘different’. But so many of today’s self help, positive thinking works are based on this philosophy, that you will be doing yourself a great disservice by not enjoying the time reading and practicing Haanel’s lessons.
Over to you.
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