Have you watched "The Secret"? Any personal experiences relating to the concept?

Answer 1

I have read and watched "The Secret". There is just a little truth to it.
The truth is, positive thinking is essential. If you go to give an examination, or play a game of tennis and you keep saying to yourself, I will do miserably, you will. Or take bowling, just before you go to bowl while throwing the ball, you think I wont get a strike,chances are you wont!
However, to expect that positive thinking while buying a lottery ticket will help you win millions of dollars is far fetched to say the least. Let us not confuse positive thinking with day dreaming!
The truth of the matter is, idle fancies of the mind, its vagrant speculations and day dreaming does not constitute positive thinking. There is something very deep, within oneself, that is very close to ones own consciousness which holds the secret. If we can learn to recognize that, get rid of the pessimism deep within that area, then and only then can we hope to acheive true positive thinking!
Best wishes!

Answer 2

"The Secret" is one of the biggest marketing cons of the last five years. Rhonda Byrnes ought to be prosecuted for this trash. For one thing, she has plagiarized so many writers that it is amazing she is not being sued by a dozen other self-help book authors. For another thing, her theory is full of it. She even went so far to suggest that people in Rwanda could have avoided being murdered had they just thought more positively. Furthermore, based on her point of view, you can tell a child it is their fault if their mother died of cancer. "Sorry, honey, but I guess you weren't positive enough." It is sick. No one should buy this witch's book and support her filth.

Don't get me wrong. Positive thinking is a good thing. It makes you better able to deal with your problems, and it CAN make you more successful. Byrnes takes it too far, suggesting you can change the world around you. Her evidence is totally anecdotal, simply ignoring the mountain of evidence that proves it wrong. A simple analogy can bust her theory. Say ten people arrive at a parking lot, and there is one good spot left. Say all ten of them are POSITIVE with ALL THEIR HEARTS that they will get that spot. Will all ten of them get it? No. Of course not. BUT... the person who did can go around all day and say, "See? I was positive, and I got the spot. That proves it works."

Rhonda Byrnes is that person who happened, through positive thinking somewhat, but mostly through hard work and dumb luck, to get that good parking spot. Sure, it is easy for her to say it works. She got lucky and wrote a best-selling book. If you buy it, however, you're just supporting another con-artist who is using her success to take advantage of people going through difficult times. That's the last thing our society needs. I think people like this rank right up there with rapists and child molesters. Yuck.

Answer 3

It's a scam, plain and simple.