The Self-Help book ..."THE SECRET"..?
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THE SECRET itself is nothing new. My grandmother had a book written in the 1920's that covered much of the same subject. I completely disagree with the nonsense attributed to the author that the Rwandans brought about their own genocide. Pure, ignorant B.S.
However, there's some good food for thought in the book and similar ones that focuses on personal responsibility and going for what you want, no excuses.
The basic idea? Thoughts become things. Frankly, mikey, skip over a lot of the spacy stuff you may find in the book. To make THE SECRET work:
1. Determine what it is you want exactly.
2. Focus your attention on it.
3. Ask yourself if what you're doing now will bring you closer to what you want. And if not, why are you doing it?
4. Don't give up.
5. Keep your mind open for information and people along the way that may help you. And be sure to help them.
6. Did I mention not to give up?
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It's a crock of New Age nonsense that says you can "manifest" anything you want in life by wishing for it really really hard.
bologna
we could all just imagine it has helped us and then it will... LOL i read some of it and it really sounded to me like i should really write that check and tape it to my headboard so i would win. do I really think this will work? who knows, I guess anything is worth trying ,but the writers are making all the bucks right now..
they must have that posted on there headboard " i will sell 1 million books by next year" and it worked for them!
I had an interest in this book after talking to a friend of mine who read it and raved about it. Then I went to Amazon.com and read reviews. While it got rave reviews from some, others said that it basically says that you are responsible for your own destiny (even when horrible stuff happens in your life out of your control) . If you did well in life that's a nice thing to think about (like the power of positive thinking) .but if you lost a child or were in a natural disaster its a pretty crappy way of thinking because she feels people bring bad things and disasters on themselves. After what I read, the secret is be selfish and not help others and rather than empathize with those going through turbulence in life you basically abandon them because it is all their fault. The authors secret is "shhh this B.S is making me lots o' money."
I'll let you in on the secret: Be Arrogant and Selfish
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