And if you don’t like the circumstances in your life now, there’s a way to change them too.Download Earl nightingale lead the field PDF Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale - Goodreads Navigation: It’s amazing how much control we actually have over our life and our own circumstances. So the guarded secret of The Strangest Secret is that you will become what you think and dream about and that if you project negativistic images in your mind then bad things keep happening to you they will and vice versa. It didn’t take you a day to form a habit and it will take more than a day to form a new positive habit of thinking positively and fill your mind with positive images and reaching your goals. So you have to plant superior crops or thoughts if you want to get more out of life.īut, on the flip side, if you imagine positively and fill your brain with positive thoughts and seeds you can expect to get positive results in your life. If you visualize negatively you will be essentially poisoning yourself day after day as long as you keep thinking along this vein. Which would you rather plant? This is what you do when you feed your mind with negative or positive thoughts. The one concrete idea that Earl uses to get this message across is that your brain is a field and you can choose to plant corn which is a healthy crop or you can plant nightshade which is a deadly poison. That’s the way the law of attraction works. If you occupy your mind with positivity, that’s precisely what you’ll get. If you are concerned about negativity all the time, you will attract it to you like a magnet. This is the same message as The Secret and the law of attraction. It’s because that’s all your concentrating on and what you’re occupying your mind with, that is what you will draw towards you. What exactly does that mean and how does that affect you? If all you feed your conscious self is negative thoughts and feelings of sorrow and how you never get a break in life, you shouldn’t be surprised when you never get a break in life or get stuck on all the red lights when you’re already late for work. The Strangest Secret is that we turn into what we think about and fill our thoughts with. Plastic surgeon and author Maxwell Maltz explained all about how our thoughts and self image had a lasting impact on our results in life in his book Psycho-Cybernetics. Norman Vincent Peale in the Power of Positive Thinking made a comparable discovery and helped millions change their thoughts and habits and lead greater lives. This goes for both positive thoughts and negative thoughts as well. Many of the great thinkers of our past had made a similar discovery of how our thoughts affect and influence our lives. If that was all that the message said, that would be enough.Įarl Nightingale was not the first to discover this message either. It’s like Ernest Hemingway’s “fewest best words” writing style. The Strangest Secret is that, “we become what we think about.” That’s it.
It went on to sell a million records with very little publicity and some say became the foundation of the personal development industry. The Strangest Secret was originally a CD recording by Earl Nightingale given to a seminar of insurance agents in his absence while he was away on vacation. With all the hype and exposure about “The Secret” nowadays I thought I’d take a few moments and let you know about “The Secret” from the 1950s.