El Secreto (The Secret) (CD-Audio)

from Sandydog1

A pop cognitive behavior manual that describes unoriginal but important concepts: positive thinking, visualization, gratitude and self-talk can change people's behavior and lives. That's all nice and true and uncontroversial. The way these themes are conveyed is well, flaky. The author relies (to...

from PJMazumdar

If we think good thoughts, good things will happen to us. But this is not because of what she says. The external world will not rearrange itself for us. What will rearrange is our internal world. When we think strong powerful thoughts, we can change a lot of things, but it is within ourselves. We...

from UnderMyAppleTree

The first few chapters held some promise. The author emphasizes the power of positive thinking and how individuals can achieve greatness by believing in themselves. About half way through however she begins placing blame on people for circumstances they often have no control over. As if truly "be...

from kidrah

I know the concept has great potential behind it (positive thinking), but the book is terribly written - it's just a collection of quotes without any explanation - it treats it's position as dogma. The whole book can be boiled down to three points: 1) think about your wants, not your "don't wants...

from tom.gsgc

Puh-lease!!!! The idea that we can control the outcome of Universal events by simply believing it is so is ridiculous. Especially since the writer clearly has no understanding of quantum physics and completely misuses the theories of the subject. Terrible book for which, thankfully, I never payed...