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The Science of Success: The Secret to Getting What You Want
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Includes The Science of Getting Rich, featured in The Secret.
Why be poor when you could be rich, mediocre when you could be great, sick when you could be healthy? You have within you the ability to get whatever you want! Prosperity guru Wallace D. Wattles reveals how to tap into this secret power to channel the abundance of the universe and make all your dreams a reality. His method is simple and straightforward, yet it opens up a world where opportunity is limitless, where we control of our own destiny, and where there are scientific answers to life’s great philosophical and religious questions. The Science of Success contains three prosperity classics in a single volume, and all in color, including Wattles’s most famous, The Science of Getting Rich, featured prominently in Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling The Secret. Together, these life-changing books reverse many accepted ideas about attracting wealth, and guide readers along a path to health, success, and fulfillment.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #249360 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Customer Reviews
A Must Read for People in the Middle of a Life Crisis
This book as absolutely essential if you are unemployed, confused about your future, facing dramatic change, or just plain ol' bored to death with your current state. Wallace D. Wattles organizes the teaching of the Certain Way, and there is every evidence in the world to support his writings as absolute truth. Successful people are not born into success, but they become successful not by their family name (we all know losers in every great family), not by their location, and not by their religion, but by a very different method which he explains fully in the book. If you have ever read Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, you know a little about the premise of this book. I like the way he organizes the fundamentals and builds on these to show you a great opportunity for personal growth. This book is worth every penny you pay, and then some!
Very Insightful Read
This book is a very insightful philosophy for life. Although it includes divinity in the writings it is non denominational and will offend no one. Attempting to adopt the principles can only enhance one's life.
Old Secrets - New Perspectives
Old Secrets - New Perspectives
By Bruce Ervin Wood, PCC, SPHR
As a leadership coach, the first time The Science of Success - The Secret to Getting What You Want by Wallace D. Wattles came into my hands, I quickly zipped it back in the shelf...seemed just another of `success-in-eleven-easy-steps' book offering techniques and little substance. The second time, I listened to the impulse to give the author a chance, and found you really can't tell a book by its cover. In three sections of the book, Wattles addresses being successful, being healthy, and being great. Written around 1900, the book provides contemporary insights in eminently accessible language.
The Science of Success
According to the author, Life has the inherent drive to increase of life. We, as human beings are thinking centers, connected with infinite abundance, and capable of creation by thought. Every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action. By envisioning a persistent and clear picture/thought of what we want, accepting and having gratitude (which requires "a mental attitude of ownership" and faith), and taking action, life has already set the creation and delivery of our wants in motion.
Influencing others through manipulation or power, sacrificial altruism and extreme selfishness are mistakes. Likewise, competition assumes limited resources, drains energy and resources from others. Conversely, creation springs from unlimited resources and energy and gets us what we want in a way that all benefit and advance.
By fixing our attention on a thought, we create. So, by obsessing about the plight of the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean, your mind sustains the form of these things in your life. Far from relieving those conditions for others, your thoughts make their tendency toward poverty persist and grow even worse. Being a model of how to get rich is the best way to help the poor. Think and speak of the poor as those who are becoming rich - to be congratulated rather than pitied.
Hold unshakable faith and quiet assurance that you are becoming rich and this conveys the impression of advancement with everything you do. With honest pride, impress others so that they feel that, by partnering with you, they will get increase for themselves.
Have faith that every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming. You will find that even a tremendous obstruction will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, through, or around it will appear. Do not fear you will fail for lack of ability, it will be furnished when you need it.
The Science of Being Well
Becoming well does not depend on some drug, adopting a system, living in a certain climate, or holding a certain job. People with similar health concerns are healed or not using each of the above modalities.
Wattles posits that, except for some conditions, two classes of functions determine wellness: voluntary (eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping); and involuntary functions, which are influenced by thought and belief. He writes, "Man cannot hope to be well thinking health if he eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps like a sick man." He goes on to advise having around you only things that convey health, power, joy, vitality, and youth.
As the author espoused in the Success section, any thought consistently held tends to manifest in the physical world - through a corresponding condition in the body. (For coaches attuned with somatics, this has a familiar ring.) Similarly, one cannot hope to be well through doubt, fear, or by thinking about disease. Becoming healthy requires holding the concept of perfect health in thought, gratitude, and matching action.
Dieters might find the author's thoughts about the difference between "hunger" and "appetite" particularly enlightening. The former is the body's subconscious, physical call for nourishment to repair and replenish the body. The latter is the unnecessary/harmful habit/desire for the gratification of sensation through sweets, desserts, soda, tea, coffee, spicy food, etc.
Some parts of this section run counter to contemporary thought (e.g.: advising against the study of disease; exercise only because your energy overflows and not for fear of disease; and not eating breakfast because you have not "earned hunger.")
The Science of Being Great
Wattles offers his thoughts on: talent - merely one faculty developed out of proportion to others faculties; and genius - the union of a soul with the unlimited power of creation.
There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man. The authors writes, "The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way, it gives us all the power there is."
Some readers might be offput by Wattles' references to God and other mentions of the unseen. Additionally, his writing style makes exclusive use of "he," "man," etc. (e.g. "Man is a stream whose source is hidden.") Even so, almost all of his references and ideas, though written in the late 19th century, open doors of cutting-edge contemporary thought. Clearly, Wattles wrote ahead of his time, and in some respects, even ahead of ours.
