Podcast: No Stupid Questions
Episode: 179. Can You Really “Manifest” Success Through Positive Visualization? | No Stupid Questions
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"There was this book that came out and this movie that came out called The Secret. Oh yeah, have you ever heard of this?"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"So The Secret was written by this Australian TV writer, her name is Rhonda Byrne. The book went on to sell more than 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages."
The Science of Getting Rich
Buy on Amazon"She was heavily influenced by a book from 1910, so almost a hundred years before she wrote hers, by a guy named Wallace Waddles, who wrote a book called The Science of Getting Rich, and it was this three-step process: ask, believe, receive."
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"So in The Secret, Byrne refers to this three-step process and she loved this idea so much, she ran with it and talked about how her life had collapsed around her."
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"The Secret and manifestation is interesting. I can't define it necessarily; manifest means to happen, right?"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"So the book that Byrne wrote, The Secret, was largely based on the law of attraction, but like, attraction to what?"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"I'm going to say like, oh you know, maybe what all these kids need to do, maybe what I should have done as a teacher is sat at lunch and really helped kids visualize these positive futures! I don’t know, passed around The Secret!"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"So here’s the thing that you don't read about in The Secret: the butt is this—the butt is this—when you cross the Rubicon, you're not done!"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"I know this is obvious to you and me, but I don't think it's obvious to everybody who buys The Secret or who answers questions like, you know, the universe is going to bring me success!"
The Secret
Buy on Amazon"In the first half of the show, Mike says that in her 2006 book, The Secret, author Rhonda Byrne writes that the titular concept is largely based on the law of attraction."