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    The Strangest Secret
    The Strangest Secret
    The Strangest Secret
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    The Strangest Secret

    By Earl Nightingale

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    Six short and simple words.

    They are the "strangest secret."

    There are more than six hundred thousand words in the English language.

    And yet just six words...six short and simple words explain:

    * How one person with identical skills can earn hundreds of thousands and even millions more than another

    * How some people shoot to the top of the company while others are fired

    * Why some people live happy productive lives while people of identical upbringings and education stumble from failure to failure

    * Why some seem to achieve goals almost effortlessly while most can't seem to get on track

    * Why some marriages flourish while others end early

    In 1956 Earl Nightingale shared these six words with the world in a recording he called The Strangest Secret. When it was released, it rocked the consciousness of the 1950′s.

    His recording, without any advertising or formal marketing, sold over a million albums and became the first (and only) spoken word message to win a Gold Record. It transformed lives and virtually created a new industry --- the modern day personal development/self help industry.

    In the printed word, as an eBook, the incredible words and wisdom of Earl Nightingale may be even more powerful.
    But either way, The Strangest Secret is indeed the single biggest secret to success that mankind has ever discovered.

    ** Includes a Nightingale bonus book “How To Create Million Dollar Ideas.”

    ** Includes an offer for FREE classic audio recordings of Earl Nightingale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaurenzanaPress
    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9781937918002

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    The Strangest Secret - Earl Nightingale

    THE STRANGEST SECRET

    Earl Nightingale

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    Published by:

    Laurenzana Press at Smashwords

    Copyright (c) 1994-2011 by Diana Nightingale

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    All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

    Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

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    www.LaurenzanaPress.com

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    Laurenzana Press

    PO Box 1220

    Melrose, FL 32666 USA

    Copyright (c) 1994-2011 by Diana Nightingale

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher.

    More Earl Nightingale

    Download FREE audios of classic Earl Nightingale messages, including As A Man Thinketh and Acres of Diamonds at www.DownloadEarl.com

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    The Strangest Secret

    The Definition of Success

    Your 30-Day Experiment

    Bonus Book: How to Create Million Dollar Ideas

    Creative Thinking Creates Our Life

    The Gold Mine Between Your Ears

    Test Your C.Q.

    Characteristics of Creative People

    Your Most Valuable Creative Tools

    The Power In Asking Questions

    New Ways to Think

    Creative Problem Solving

    The Brainstorm

    Ready for Action

    The Creative Person

    The Challenge of Creativity

    For More Earl Nightingale

    Introduction

    The book you are about to read was written and recorded on a record in 1956 by Earl Nightingale. This message is the answer to the question that he had been searching for from the time he was about nine years old.

    Earl Nightingale had been born in economically depressed times. As a child, because they were so poor, Earl desperately wanted to know why some people grew up to enjoy prosperity while others, like his family, struggled merely to survive.

    Unable to find answers to his questions from grownups, Earl began reading everything he could, believing that someone, somewhere, had the answer.

    Many years passed, and when Earl was 35 years old, he wrote and recorded this message. It was to be played one Saturday morning to a small group of salesmen during his absence.

    When Earl returned, he learned that the message had made such a positive impact on the men they wanted copies to share with their friends and family.

    Earl arranged with Columbia Records to duplicate the record to meet the many requests.

    Much to Earl’s surprise, in very little time, without any real advertising or marketing, over a million copies had been sold and he received a Gold Record.

    Earl called the message The Strangest Secret. And this single recording was the seedling from which the entire Personal Development Industry grew.

    And because Earl had discovered the true meaning of The Strangest Secret, which determines the outcome of one’s life, he went from poverty to become one of the most highly recognized voices and names throughout the United States and from the West Indies to South Africa.

    His daily radio program, Our Changing World, was the world’s most widely sponsored radio program and was heard daily across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Bahamas, Guam, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the Armed Forces Radio, and 30 countries overseas.

    Since my husband’s death in 1989, I have continually looked for new, effective ways to continue to share Earl’s many messages of inspiration with the world. This eBook is one of those ways.

    The Personal Development Industry is so vast today, and yet, people around the world attribute The Strangest Secret as being the one message that has most positively affected their lives.

    As you read, you will notice how the statistics reflect those of the mid 1950’s. But more than 50 years later, the message is as true and valuable as it was then.

    I hope you enjoy the book, but more than that, I hope you put The Strangest Secret to work in your life.

    Diana Nightingale

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    The Strangest Secret

    I would like to tell you about the strangest secret in the world.

    Not long ago Albert Schweitzer, the great doctor and Nobel Prize winner, was being interviewed in London and a reporter asked him, Doctor what’s wrong with men today?

    The great doctor was silent for a moment and then he said, Men simply don’t think. And it’s about this that I want to talk with you.

    We live today in a golden age. This is an era that man has looked forward to, dreamed of and worked hard for thousands of years.

    But since it’s here, we pretty well take it for granted.

    We, in America, are particularly fortunate to live in the richest land that ever existed on the face of the earth. A land of abundant opportunity for everyone, but do you know what happens?

    Let’s take a hundred men who start even at the age of 25. Do you have any idea of what will happen to those men by the time they’re 65?

    These one hundred men, who all start even at the age of 25, believe they are going to be successful. If you ask any one of these men if he wanted to be a success, he would

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