The Secret of The Strangest Secret
With all the hype and publicity about “The Secret” nowadays I thought I’d take a few moments and let you know about “The Secret” from the 1950s. The Strangest Secret was originally a CD recording by Earl Nightingale given to a seminar of insurance agents in his absence while he was away on vacation. It went on to sell a million records with very little publicity and some say became the foundation of the personal development industry.
So what’s the Strangest Secret anyways?
The Strangest Secret is that, “we become what we think about.” That’s it. The beauty is it’s simplicity. It’s like Ernest Hemingway’s “fewest best words” writing style. If that was all that the message said, that would be enough.
Earl Nightingale was not the first to discover this message either. Many of the great thinkers of our past had made a similar discovery of how our thoughts affect our lives. This goes for both positive thoughts and negative thoughts as well. Norman Vincent Peale in the Power of Positive Thinking made a similar discovery and helped millions change their thoughts and habits and lead better lives. Plastic surgeon and author Maxwell Maltz explained all about how our thoughts and self image had a lasting impact on our results in life in his book Psycho-Cybernetics.
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admin | March 10, 2007