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The truth is that I am skeptical. I can't really believe that only one single thought can change a whole life. But I feel inside of me that it's possible. Even if I have always woken up early and didn't become a millionaire. Maybe you have already understood — I love reading self-help books. I have read so many of them over the last 20 years. But maybe I read them wrong — now I want to read them better.

And I want to start with a vision board. Looking at a vision board is like looking at your graduation photo on the day you enroll in the course of study you have chosen. It's the destination, something you want to truly believe in — because in those images you feel something that resonates with your soul. In mine there is the sea, because I want to go more often. There is more nature and less office. There is time, there is freedom. That's what's on my vision board — freedom.

But honestly? I'm not sure these are really my dreams. A vision board is so easily contaminated by everything we are sold every day, from every direction. I left Instagram five years ago without regret — but the noise stays with you. And I still don't know where my real desires end and where the algorithm begins.

Nota per l'universo: lo so che per avere meno ufficio e più natura basterebbe perdere il lavoro, ma il denaro mi serve.

A proposito di denaro.. Maybe I'm too un-American to admit that I would actually like more money than I can count using simple multiplication — something that can only be measured in powers. But who wouldn't? So, to make sure the universe doesn't get it wrong, I'll also put a picture of Scrooge McDuck on my vision board.

Napoleon Hill, in his "Think and Grow Rich", proposes an infallible method to transform desire into wealth. And here comes the good part — in 6 simple steps: 1) Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. 2) Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. 3) Establish a definite date. 4) Create a definite plan and begin at once. 5) Write out a clear statement of points 1 through 4, and last but not least — 6) Read your written statement aloud twice daily, morning and night, imagining yourself already in possession of that amount.

I think I'll start right now. And you? What is the number of your dreams — but more importantly, what are you willing to do to get it?

Small note: I'm only at the beginning of the book, but so far I see no reference, not even a distant one, to the importance of doing what is right, of being kind, of being at the service of others. It feels a little like a manual for supervillains — at least in the first 30 pages.

Little spoiler: I found it out in chapter three.