George Wright III wraps up his 14-episode deep dive into Napoleon Hill's *Think and Grow Rich* with the most advanced principle of all: the sixth sense. After walking through desire, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, persistence, the mastermind alliance, sex transmutation, the subconscious mind, and the brain, George arrives at the principle that ties them all together. This one is different. It cannot be forced, studied into existence, or hacked. It has to be earned.
Napoleon Hill called the sixth sense "the door to the temple of wisdom," and it represents something most entrepreneurs quietly sense but rarely trust: their own intuition. This episode is a practical guide to understanding what the sixth sense actually is, why high performers rely on it, and how you can begin activating it today.
What Napoleon Hill Actually Meant by the Sixth Sense
Hill described the sixth sense not as something mystical or random, but as a faculty of the mind that becomes available only after the other twelve principles are developed and practiced. As George explains it directly from Hill's work:
Sixth sense is the sense through which infinite intelligence may or will communicate voluntarily without any effort from or demands by the individual.
In other words, this is not something you chase. It comes to you. It arrives as a flash of insight, a gut feeling, a sudden clarity that bypasses logic entirely. Hill referred to it as creative imagination, the part of your subconscious mind that downloads ideas you did not consciously generate.
George points out that some of the greatest breakthroughs in business, science, and human achievement have come from exactly these kinds of flashes. Malcolm Gladwell explored this territory in *Blink*. Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey both credited intuition as a primary driver of their success. None of them treated it as luck or coincidence. They treated it as something real and cultivatable.
Why Most People Lose Access to Their Inner Compass
Here is the uncomfortable truth George shares: most people tune out their sixth sense as they get older. Fear, noise, social comparison, limiting beliefs, and overstimulation slowly drown out the quiet signal of intuition. The sixth sense does not scream at you. It whispers.
You cannot access it when your mind is full of noise, doubt, and fear. This is why thinkers like Ryan Holiday, who wrote *Ego Is the Enemy*, *The Obstacle Is the Way*, and *Stillness Is the Key*, as well as James Allen, have written extensively about the power of silence and mental clarity. Stillness is not a luxury. It is a prerequisite for tuning into your highest intelligence.
How Entrepreneurs Use Intuition as a Competitive Edge
George makes the case that the sixth sense is the entrepreneur's edge that no textbook can teach. You know when to pivot before the data confirms it. You feel when a deal is off before the numbers spell it out. You sense when someone is not the right fit for your team or brand, even when everything looks fine on paper.
The sixth sense is that portion of the subconscious mind which has been referred to as creative imagination.
This is what separates average from extraordinary. Not more analysis, not more strategy sessions, but the ability to hear your own internal GPS and trust it. That GPS gets calibrated when you have done the work: built your desires, strengthened your faith, practiced persistence, and aligned yourself with your highest goals and values.
Why the Sixth Sense Only Arrives After You Have Earned It
This is the part of the episode that lands hardest. The sixth sense is not available on demand. It shows up when you have developed the other principles. As George says:
It doesn't arrive until you've earned it through discipline, clarity, and belief.
That means if you are still waiting for a sign, if you are overanalyzing every decision, if you are chasing external validation, the answer is already inside you. You just have to stop the noise long enough to hear it. Intuition, George says, is wisdom without explanation. You do not have to have everything figured out. You just have to trust what you already know.
How to Start Activating Your Sixth Sense Today
George offers concrete steps any entrepreneur can begin right now.
Action Steps
- Cultivate daily stillness. The sixth sense whispers. Build time into your schedule for silence, journaling, meditation, or walks so you can hear it. This is foundational, not optional.
- Track your intuition. Keep a dedicated section in your journal for intuitive hits. Log them when they arrive, then revisit them days or weeks later to evaluate accuracy. This builds confidence and trust in your own inner guidance.
- Align with your higher self. Before every significant decision, ask yourself: is this aligned with who I am becoming? The sixth sense responds to vision and truth, not fear.
- Protect your mental inputs. Limit negativity and noise. The more cluttered your mental environment, the harder it is to access your inner wisdom.
- Stop overanalyzing. You have done the work. You have the wisdom. Trust it. Intuition is often the final step between where you are and where you are meant to be.
These thirteen principles from *Think and Grow Rich* are time-tested across more than ninety years and millions of readers. They apply differently at different stages of life, and revisiting them regularly will reveal new layers each time.
It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.
