As I was reading The Fifteen Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill, I reached a part of the book that mentions “Mental Contagion”. This really caught my eye and interest because I realised how very real it is and it is happening right now as we speak. “Oil prices”, “Market crash”, etc. The media and people on the ground have been propagating their opinions towards a crowd and I realise that I too may have fallen victim and have possibly been propagating the same fear.
“No form of contagion is so insidious in it’s outset, so difficult to check in it’s advance, so certain to leave germs they met at any moment reveal their pernicious power, we a mental contagion – the contagion of fear, of panic, of fanaticism, of lawlessness, of superstition, of error.”
“The most striking peculiarity presented by a psychological crowd is the following: Whoever ......