If you love, or hate, The Secret (or anything in between) this short spoof of the movie will have you laughing till your sides ache! Check it out!
http://www.guruyou-u.com/
If you love, or hate, The Secret (or anything in between) this short spoof of the movie will have you laughing till your sides ache! Check it out!
http://www.guruyou-u.com/
Well, the media hype surrounding “The Secret” seems to have finally died down, and are life is going on as usual. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before a sequel is released…and the fire is fueled again.
Meanwhile, I wish I could conduct a poll of how many audience members:
1) Thought the movie would affect them in a lasting way, but now is simply buried in the back of their mind with all the other nice thoughts and interesting information.
2) Applied the prinicples of the secret in a balanced way and lives were truly affected in a positive, long lasting way by the movie.
3) Applied the principles of the secret and nothing seemed to happen…
4) Went overboard, devoted their whole exisitence to practicing the principals, (including distancing themselves from loved ones who were ‘negative’ in any sort of way) of the movie and where they are now.
Now wouldn’t that be an interesting poll….?
I can’t wait to see a sequel when it comes out. It will be interesting to see how they backtrack, if at all, from anything in the first movie (perhaps they will focus less on material wealth and more on what individuals can do for humanity) and what new information or ‘spin’ they have on creating success in your life…
As Joe Vitale said on Larry King Live “The movie only talked about one of the secrets of the universe…there are others…”
Can’t wait to hear ‘em Joe. I only hope they’ll be a bit more realistic and a bit less ‘hype-y’ next time!
Here’s an interesting comparison of the two by Kevin Hogan from his “Questions Of The Week…”
“My Question Is….How can you love Think and Grow Rich and dislike The Secret so much? They are the same thing!
The Secret is a scam and a fraud. It uses blatant fraud in it’s advertising. It misquotes dignified people from history and makes them look like ignorant fools to sell a destructive idea…. The entire notion is so poorly put together that it has to use circular reasoning to communicate with anyone who really embraces this strange philosophy of “hope until you fail then you have guilt, a counterintention and have to manifest ‘the right way’”….blah blah…it’s utterly and totally bogus. No exception. It does not work. I’ve personally offered to do studies. I’ve challenged people to participate in experiments. They all say, “no,” but they claim it’s science. ALL scientists test, experiment and attempt to prove what they believe/think WRONG. That’s what science is all about. Creating research that gives a good chance to show that something being tested doesn’t work. The Secret? …….forget it. They’ll never do it. I promise. No one involved will submit to participating in experiments or studies. They’ve scammed a lot of people. They will continue to do so until people demand to see studies. And of course because most people don’t understand what science is, they’ll continue to be duped until they’ve been hurt badly.
Think and Grow Rich on the other hand is a distillation of the philosophy of dozens of successful American men from the early 1900′s. The book is written with research behind it. The book doesn’t purport to “always work.” Hill doesn’t make insane claims. He gives a thorough and (in the Law of Success) a detailed and workable philosophy on how to achieve. Is everything he wrote, “true?”
Of course not. We’ve learned a lot in the last 75 years. But he had a solid foundation that had a start to finish philosophy and that’s all you can ask in a philosophy. And, it’s all testable.
The book, The Secret can be summed up as “think about what you want, get a good feeling about it, be grateful for it,” end of story, Or, you can even add “take action.”
“The Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich are closer to blueprints for success that were as good as they had back in the 1920′s. Things have changed a bit since then, but the culmination of interviews with Ford, Edison, Carnegie, Roosevelt, et al, is really still an impressive testament to Napoleon Hill’s spirit of persistence to present as complete a philosophy for success as possible.
Nowhere does Hill make horrifying claims that raped children and victims of genocide have brought such things upon themselves. Only The Secret does that. (not even RELIGION teaches stuff like that and religion causes a lot of guilt because of programmed beliefs like “original sin!”
Because Hill didn’t come up with any of this on his own, because he interviewed people who were incredibly successful, he got their opinions on WHY they were so successful. He was able to examine their motives and their actions. Obviously people really are poor at evaluating why they are good or bad at anything. But when you talk with a LOT of successful people and collect all of that information, patterns do begin to emerge. It’s a good bet many of them will be close maps of reality.”
As you know, I think there are many redeeming qualities of the movie “The Secret” but I also agree with much of the critisim against the movie. Kevin’s harsh words struck a cord with me, which is why I’m sharing them here. I think he’s largely right, but still don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We’ve got to watch this stuff with our brains turned on.
