The Strangest Secret (1956) by Earl Nightingale

This record reveals that the key to success and happiness lies in understanding that "we become what we think about," emphasizing the transformative power of our thoughts and attitudes. #EarlNightingale #SuccessMindset #PositiveThinking #MotivationalSpeech #PersonalDevelopment #Audiobook

Summary: In 1950 Earl Nightingale was inspired by the words "we become what we think about" in Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich around the same time he bought an insurance agency. He provided weekly motivational speeches to the agency's sales staff. In 1956, he recorded a motivational speech to be played while he was on vacation.

The motivational speech explores the concept of success and how to achieve it.
In the recording, Nightingale discusses the idea that success is not the result of luck or chance, but rather a direct result of our thoughts and actions. He argues that the key to success is to have a clear and specific goal, and to take consistent action towards achieving that goal. Nightingale also emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility and the role that our beliefs and attitudes play in determining the course of our lives. He encourages listeners to adopt a positive and proactive mindset, and to take control of their thoughts and actions in order to create the life they desire.

"Before listening to this recording, I want you to realize, that...
Your job, regardless of what it may be, holds within it the KEY to success and abundance. This recording, 'The Strangest Secret', gives you that KEY...tells you how to make the most of your own capabilities...how to attain the rich full measure of success and happiness that can surely be yours. You and you alone determine the DEGREE of your success. By following the principles set forth in this recording, you are bound to achieve a better way of life...starting now!" - Earl Nightingale

Chapters:
00:00 - SIDE A: The Strangest Secret

Credits:
Audio Narration - Earl Nightingale

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[ThatGamerGirlSammy]

FOR 30 DAYS : 1) Write on a card what it is you want (anything).Make sure is a single goal and clearly defined! DO NOT SHOW IT TO ANYONE. But carry it with you so you can look at it several times a day. Think about it in a cheerful relaxed and positive way each morning when you get up. Look at it every time you can during the day and right before going to bed at night. As you look at it remember you MUST BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT. It's yours really the moment you write it down. 2) STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT IT IS YOU FEAR. Each time a fear thought comes, replace it with a positive image of your goal. For 30 days you must take control of your mind. 3) Don't concern yourself with how you will achieve it, is not your problem! Universe has you. Do this for 30 days .

[blinda]

Six Steps to help you realize success:
1. Have an ultimate goal
2. Quit running yourself down
3. Stop thinking of all the reasons you cannot be successful and instead think of all the reasons you can.
4. Trace your attitudes back to your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea you couldn’t be a success— if that’s the way you’ve been thinking
5. Change the image you have of your self by writing out a description of the person you would like to be
6. Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become

[SellRealEstateAs-Is]

I remember many years ago I ask a successful man "Real Estate Investor" what is the secret? I was washing his truck at the time and he looked at me and said I have never had anyone ask me that before.... and after some silence, he told me that no one ever gave him anything but his father told him to listen to this every day and his life would change and it did. But he told me that he would not give it to me because people that get something for free don't value it. So I found it on cassette... Yes, cassette, and yes it was a long time ago, and yes my life has changed a great deal since then. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the reminder!

[KeyJM]

I just wanted to leave this comment.

I watched this video for the first time in early February... and listened to it again, even after I started the challenge.

It's all true, I'm still in a little shock.

After years of trying to quit cigarettes 🚬 🙃 🤢🤮
I finally did it, and I'm a month and a half in. This is huge for me!

So, just wanted to say Thank you, quite much. This has changed my life. And now I'm working on other health goals.

It set things in motion... 🙏💪

[NasivateLifestyle]

There's something weird that happens, when you just have conviction, i can't explain it. It's like new opportunities pop up out of nowhere.

[jamesgordon]

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity". Thank you for sharing!

[devinwilso]

I feel fortunate be alive in a time when we can have access to material like this at our fingertips. Thank you for sharing this. I'm rooting for everyone here and I hope that you will all reach your goals.

[thatgirlm]

"the architect of this universe didn't build a stairway leading us to nowhere"✨

[beverlyboo]

The Bible says, do not conform to this world but be transformed by the renewing of YOUR mind. Amen.

[Luna_Boy]

I first heard of this concept around the age of 25. I had my doubts so I decided to put it to the test. I wrote on a grease board “a fortune by age 35 (I had a specific number in mind)”. Why not? Ten years to manifest and according to the concept, there is no limit. The message stayed there for years. I had no idea how it might come to pass. Now I am 33 and a few steps away from fulling that goal. My only concern now is I didn’t dream big enough! I’m currently trying to overwrite the old program with a new loftier one! This really is incredible

[funwithFred]

My father was a businessman, and he had his favorite quotes and sayings, not to mention he could recite pages of one of his favorite sayings was "The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity." And I remember him mentioning this Earl Nightengale, it was very popular at the time, and now I know where he got the saying. I miss him.

[cacosta]

I've been listening to this for about 60 days straight, what I wrote on my card showed up without me doing anything but believing, even my dreams are changing to those of positive images ... It's our own thoughts that hold is back or push us forward

[HTNPSullivan]

As you work towards your goals and dreams, have both hands open, one to receive and one to give back. It creates a flow of wealth of all kinds and a lightness of heart.

[nh]

Recommended reading:

Wake up and live - Dorothea Brande
The magic of believing - Claude Bristol
Think and grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

[Planetgreenzen]

This will never get old and speaks so loud in 2021. I listen to this a few times per year just to keep myself calibrated.

[successbootcamp]

I hope this helps whoever reads it. I followed this for 30 days. My goal was to change my self image and it worked. This is what I did.

1. Write out a statement of your Short Term Goal AND your Chief Aim/Main Goal... on a "goal card" or paper.
2. Write it out 50 times a day for 30 days preferably around the same time each day. After the 30 days, you go back and write it out ONCE a day. This is your compass in life.
3. Set your phone alarm to go off every 3 hours (to disrupt your daily routine) and when it goes off write down your statement and then close your eyes and see yourself with your goal for 2 mins.
4. Record your statement in your voice on a voice recorder on your phone, and play it back to yourself on loop while you sleep and as often as you can daily, example... in the shower or when you are using the rest room.
5. Find an accountability partner. If you cannot find someone, then you MUST write out your statement DAILY. By doing this you make yourself accountable to YOURSELF.
6. Find a community or FB group/group chat, etc and from that community form a Mastermind with one or two people who have studied from REAL Mentors and are giving VALUE. There is a "Law of Giving" and many people are using it. Andrew Carnegie told Napoleon Hill this back in the early 1900s. Its a LAW and it works. Its what I am doing with this post.
7. Auto-Suggest (Think and Grow Rich Chapter 4) to yourself in front of the mirror in the bathroom at least twice a day. Look directly INTO your eyes OR one eye and recite your WRITTEN statement. Then splash cold water on your face. This sudden shock seals the thought into the subconscious due to emotional and physical shock from the cold water.
8. Write out ten "I AM" statements a day. example. I AM happy, I AM more confident. Use the word MORE; implying you already have it, but want more. You trick the brain.
9. Write out 5 things you HAVE that you are grateful for and 5 things that you are grateful for that are coming to you. Mix up the list one after the other.
10. When in public tell people you see that you love them in your mind. Simply say "I LOVE YOU" to them as you pass them, especially when driving, because their subconscious hears and FEELS the intention. Say it to about 10 to 15 people daily. This increases your Good Karma.

I hope this helps at least two people.

It might seem like a lot. But it took me less than two weeks to incorporate the list into my life and 32 days later I started getting massive results.

Thank you for reading.

[thatonepianoguy_]

The Strangest Secret: We Become What We Think About.

Marcus Aurelius: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

Disraeli: “Everything comes if a man will only wait. I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

William James: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life, that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interest in it will be those which characterize belief. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must then really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”

Mark 9:23: “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale: “This is one of the greatest laws in the universe. Fervently do I wish I had discovered it as a very young man. It dawned upon me much later in life, and I've found it to be one of the greatest, if not my greatest discovery outside of my relationship to God. The great law briefly and simply stated is that if you think in negative terms, you'll get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results. That is the simple fact which is at the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity and success. In three words: Believe and Succeed.”

William Shakespeare: “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

George Bernard Shaw: “People are always blaming our circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want; and if they can't find them, make them.”

[WaterBearer]

I listen to this 3 to 4x a year to wash my mind out from all the gunk that builds up. These are some of the wisest words I've ever come across. Starting again from here and now today. To you all, I wish you well .

[valsan]

Six steps that will help you realize success.

1. Set yourself a definite goal

2. Quit running yourself down

3. Stop thinking of all the reasons why you cannot be successfuland instead, think of all the reasons why you can
.
4. Trace your attitudes back through your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea you couldn't be a successif that's the way you've been thinking.

5. Change the image you have of yourself by writing out a decription of the person you would like to be.

6. Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become.

Dr.David Harold Fink MD.

[FirstLast-spor]

I had a commute that allowed me to listen To men like Earl Nightingale and Napoleon Hill along with audio books by authors like James Allen and others that are centered in Personal Development. With patience and persistence and a CONTINUAL GOOD ATTITUDE, I EARNED a bigger salary that exceeded my expectation. Not many get the chance so when you do pray and steadfast for the goal of betters days. No matter what your destiny is, its YOURS. Listen, Meditate and have faith. Your goals are within reach. God is Good and Remember to always share your testimony.