What's commonly known is that when you enroll and engage in masterminds, you can accomplish more in one year than you could accomplish in a lifetime - if you depended entirely on your own efforts for success.
Because...
When you join a mastermind, you have permission to borrow and use the education, the experience, the extended influence, and perhaps even other assets of other people in an effort to reduce your own risks and gain rapid results.
THIS MAKES ACCOMPLISHING THE THINGS YOU WANT IN LIFE - FASTER & EASIER.
This also helps to illustrate that, according to Napoleon Hill, the mastermind has two separate (yet equally important) core characteristics. And the one just discussed is "economic" in nature.
However...
What isn't commonly known (or is often lost in translation) is that Hill specifically suggests that people only associate with other people in which they can operate in ''harmony" with.
After decades of our own scholarly studying of Hill's writings that go far beyond "Think & Grow Rich", here's how we interpret the importance of operating "in the spirit of harmony":
If you aren't in ABSOLUTE ALIGNMENT and COMPLETE CONGRUENCE with those that you're in a mastermind with...
Napoleon Hill suggests: " It won't work for you ! "
To take this one step further, our interpretation is that if you don't have an energetic connection and share similar VISION, VALUES, & VIRTUES with those in your mastermind, then " we wish you the best of luck ".
(because you may be fighting a battle in which the odds are stacked against you)
Therefore...
The second core characteristic of a mastermind is "energetic" and is essential when making Principle #2 of the 17 Principles of Success work in your favor.