Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, first defined the mastermind as a “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”
Most importantly, a mastermind group is a culmination of hundreds of years of knowledge, experience, and advice that is shared and collaborated in a safe, uncensored forum…
Some famous mastermind groups:
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Benjamin Franklin’s Junto
Franklin organized a group of twelve members, to provide a structured forum for discussion. The members of the Junto were drawn from diverse occupations and backgrounds, but they all shared a spirit of inquiry and a desire to improve themselves, their community, and to help others.
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The CHICAGO 6
During the early 1900’s six men in Chicago formed a Mastermind Group. These men put Chicago on the map. At the time, none of them had any money. They met every Saturday at a local restaurant over dinner, and after a very few years each one was worth several millions of dollars at a time when that was an enormous amount of money!One was Charles Wrigley, who created the Wrigley’s Chewing Gum empire. Another was William Hertz, who built the Yellow Cab Company. Their businesses were started and succeeded with the great help of their Mastermind Alliance.
Andrew Carnegie’s Mastermind
In 1908 a guy named Napoleon Hill was commissioned by Andrew Carnegie (then the richest man in the world) to interview the 504 most successful people of his day. The objective was to find what success has in common.Hill shares how he learned about MasterMinding from Andrew Carnegie, the richest self-made man on earth in his time. Carnegie told Hill that his wealth and success was due entirely to the MasterMind Process.
The MasterMind Principle states: “When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of the creative mechanism of each contributing mind.”Napoleon Hill even went so far as to say there was a mystical quality created when a mastermind group was formed. He said: “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.” In other words, your ability to create things in the world is increased by having that invisible “third mind” of the mastermind group.