Today’s Solutions: January 12, 2026

110 years ago, journalist Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, set down with steel baron Andrew Carnegie for a series of interviews aimed about the principles of his success. For Carnegie mindset was the critical component: the problem most of us face isn’t that our goals are too audacious but that we aren’t leveraging our mind as a tool to attain what we want to achieve. The interviews were recently reprinted in How To Own Your Own Mind (Penguin Random House, 2017.)

Solutions News Source Print this article
More of Today's Solutions

Investing in planetary health could unlock $20 trillion a year by 2070, says ...

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A sweeping new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) lays out an ambitious, but achievable, economic ...

Read More

How to rediscover intrinsic motivation in the new year

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A new year often comes with new intentions, new goals, and new calendars waiting to be filled. But ...

Read More

India bans single-use plastics

India experiences worse-than-average plastic pollution with single-use plastic water bottles and containers finding their way into streets and important waterways.  To rein in this ...

Read More

Study shows: if we biked like the Dutch, global emissions would drop dramatic...

A new study from researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has determined what we already knew— cycling is much better for the environment ...

Read More