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Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. The Secret , which discusses the Law of Attraction and how to use it in your life, rose to the top of many bestseller lists and inspired offshoots like The Secret Gratitude Book , The Secret Day-To-Day Calendar, and its own official website.
The book introduced many people to the concept that their thoughts may influence not only their actions but the experiences that they bring into their lives as well.
The Secret puts forward several ideas that are surprising, exciting, and perhaps controversial, such as:. The book shares other insights and specific strategies to use, gives a history of the use of the Law of Attraction, and provides examples on how it's worked in the lives of various people, making it an interesting and informative read.
The Secret may be helpful for some but detrimental for others. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible. Self Help Nonfiction Spirituality Psychology More Details. Rhonda Byrne 18 books 4, followers. Rhonda Byrne is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret —a book and a film by the same name.
By the Spring of the book had sold almost 4 million copies, and the DVD had sold more than 2 million copies. She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder. In , Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of people who shape the world. Search review text. I hate, hate, hate this book with absolute passion. You can attract good things to you through your good thoughts. Ok, I'm on board with that. It has worked for me. Ooh, I already knew the Secret! But no, it goes further.
You attract bad things to you through your negative thoughts. Well, negative thoughts are pretty useless, so I can see benefit in trying to decrease or eliminate them. And one time true story I did get robbed while traveling after worrying about it for 3 weeks. There is no gray area with this one. According to the author, people who are raped, killed, maimed, tortured - they all bring it on themselves with their negative thoughts. The people in Darfur should be thinking "here comes the food, there go the guns".
The book goes on to say that weight management is simply a matter of "thinking thin" and not looking at fat people for real , that if you have a stack of bills to pay you should instead picture checks coming in, that you can have everything you want through visualization, such as your hands on the steering wheel of your car, and that you can cure your cancer watching funny movies.
There is a weak chapter at the end about how you can use your Secret powers for the common good, like world peace, but why would you want to waste it when you can be driving your new Hummer? It promotes the self-absorbed, materialistic, shallow outlook of predominantly rich white people to the exclusion of the rest of the planet - while managing to blame them for their problems and justify those in possession of the Secret for not using their visualized wealth to promote social change.
Aah, brilliant. A horribly-written and assembled collection of tripe; it has no cohesive voice, no cohesive theme, and is completely facile in its analysis. I literally threw the book across the room when I read, 'Quantum Physicists will tell you the universe was created from thought! No, numbfucker, they won't. Not to mention the 'facts' they assert don't have citations to lend those assertions the slightest hint of credibility. If you want me to believe that 'thinking positively will lead to success because your energy and focus will follow and, in turn, develop into what you hope for' then fine, I'll go down that road with you but this is just shit.
Make it so! I had a long review and I got too many responses to it. Comments and emails, and strangers connecting with me because of this review. So I deleted it. Here is what I will say now I once gave this 5 stars. About The Author.
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