I try to read the fifteenth chapter of Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This chapter is titled “How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear." In this episode we cover the fifth and the sixth fears - The Fear of Old Age and The Fear of Death.

The Fear of Old Age is a terrible fear which comes out of inactivity. When we get old, we get inactive, our contribution to family and society falls. This decreases a drive within us to achieve something. We become scared of poverty, begin feeling sorry for ourselves and try to change ourselves wholesale. These are just manifestations of the symptoms of the fear of poverty, which include:

1. An Inferiority Complex

2. Speaking apologetically about oneself

3. Killing off initiative

4. Changing our appearance

In contract, the fear of death is less active and more languid. It develops out of a fear of what comes next. Religious conmen and woman try to instill fear in us by making us perform rituals to ward off this fear. But it must be imbibed or forgotten through activity. Hill says,

"This fear (The Fear of Death) is useless. Death will come, no matter what anyone may think about it. Accept it as a necessity, and pass the thought out of your mind. It must be a, necessity, or it would not come to all. Perhaps it is not as bad as it has been pictured." 

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Aakash

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