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    The Six-Word Secret to Success
    The Six-Word Secret to Success
    The Six-Word Secret to Success
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    The Six-Word Secret to Success

    By Earl Nightingale

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    From the author of The Strangest Secret, based on the motivational speech heard by millions

    We become what we think about.

    Earl Nightingale was in a lookout tower on the Battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor and was one of only a few hundred who survived. He felt that he had been spared for some reason and became obsessed with learning why some people were successful and others were not. He knew that millions of people around the world are frightened, confused, and surprised in life—they don't understand the basic law for success, which is this: we become what we think about.

    Filled with equal parts inspiration and practical advice, this book is for anyone seeking their "true north" and reveals how you should go about discovering what that is in order to achieve meaningful success in life. Not the kind based on wealth, fame, and popularity, but the kind that you feel inside your soul, that intrinsically drives you to be the best version of yourself, each and every day. In The Six-Word Secret to Success, you will find decades of motivation packed into a short volume that you'll want to read over and over again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateMar 2, 2021
    ISBN9781728210759
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      The Six-Word Secret to Success - Earl Nightingale

      Front CoverTitle Page

      Copyright © 1987, 2021 by Earl and Diana Nightingale

      Cover and internal design © 2021 by Sourcebooks

      Cover design by Jackie Cummings/Sourcebooks

      Sourcebooks, the colophon, and Simple Truths are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—­except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—­without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks.

      This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. —­From a Declaration of Principles Jointly Adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations

      Published by Simple Truths, an imprint of Sourcebooks

      P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-410

      (630) 961-­3900

      sourcebooks.com

      Originally published as Earl Nightingale’s Greatest Discovery in the United States by Dodd, Mead & Company. This edition issued based on the paperback edition published in 2012 in the United States by Diana Nightingale.

      Contents

      Front Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Introduction

      1. A River or a Goal

      2. Stay With It

      3. Finding a Balance

      About the Author

      Back Cover

      For Diana—­as the Earth thanks the Sun

      Introduction

      In order to fully enjoy prosperity and its accompanying sense of achievement, one needs to have known poverty and an environment in which daily survival is the purpose of life. As a youngster, I didn’t know anything about a sense of achievement, but I was all too aware of being poor. It didn’t seem to bother the other kids, but it bothered me. What made it all the more exasperating to me, as a boy of twelve, was to be poor in Southern California, where there seemed to be so many who were rich. In fact, anyone who had an automobile, an electric refrigerator, and wall-­to-­wall carpeting was rich in my book, and the children of such people seemed to me to be fortunate indeed. I decided to find out why some people were rich while so very many of us were poor.

      The year was 1933—­the bottom of the Great Depression. Millions were unemployed. My two brothers and I were fortunate; although our father had disappeared in search of greener pastures, our mother never missed a day at her Works Progress Administration (WPA) sewing factory job. Her earnings, as I recall, were fifty-­five dollars a month, which produced survival. We lived in Tent City behind the old Mariner Apartments on the waterfront in Long Beach, California.

      What makes the difference? I asked myself. Why are some people well off financially and others poor? Why are some so well paid while others are so poorly paid? What’s the difference? What’s going on here?

      I tried asking the adults who lived in our neighborhood and soon discovered they didn’t know any more than I did. In fact, I made what was to me an astonishing discovery: The adults in our neighborhood didn’t know anything at all. They were pitifully uneducated—­driven by instinct, other-­directed.

      My mother had many endearing qualities. One was her unfailing good cheer; another was her love of books. She haunted the public library, and my fondest memory of her is of her eating oatmeal and milk early in the morning under a dangling, naked, underpowered light bulb with a book propped up in front of her. She loved travel books, especially. Never able to travel herself, she explored the earth from pole to pole through her books on travel and adventure. I’m sure it helped save her sanity during those hard years. She was an attractive woman, still young but completely dedicated to the raising of her boys. Her books and our battered radio were her only entertainment. She read on her long Pacific Electric train rides to and from work in Los Angeles as well as after we boys had gone to bed at night. On weekends, after cleaning and doing the laundry, her books again filled her world with exciting travel and high adventure. Later in life, I realized she never had to stand in a sweltering customs shed, or see her luggage disappear into three Italian taxis, or struggle with a foreign language or currency, yet she had traveled from one end of the earth to the other and was intimate with the most remote places on the planet. That she was able to do so without ever leaving Los Angeles County was a tribute

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