The Strangest Secret - Earl Nightingale

Partial Excerpts (antilibrary)

Foreword

Foreword by Dave Ramsey

here’s a spoiler alert: the strangest secret is “you become what you think about

success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Prologue

Prologue by Diana Nightingale

Following the end of World War II, men returned home to find jobs

Each person knew the role they were expected to play in the family and in society—a role that they had been trained for from the time they were little children

While many may have been uncomfortable or unhappy with the roles they were expected to play, they continued on, living unhappy, unfulfilled lives

Stories written about those who set off in new directions to explore the world or to dabble in experimentation, like Thomas Edison, Magellan, and other legends, may have further sparked the desire for a life lived differently, but books about these men, philosophy, poetry, science, and adventure were for the most part considered nothing more than a mental escape from the “real world”

Then, in 1956, along came a man who had lived in poverty as a child and had seen war up close and personal. His name was Earl Nightingale