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The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well (Paperback)
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The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well (Paperback)
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Loot Price R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought
Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles. The book is still in print
after 100 years. It was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's
bestselling book and film The Secret. According to USA Today, the
text is "divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that
explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, not
competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction." Wattles, who
had formerly been a Methodist, ran for office as a Socialist
candidate in Indiana in 1916. He included the word science in the
title, reflecting a secular approach to New Thought though also
thereby borrowing from the then-rampant popularity of Christian
Science and its offshoots as he wrote about business prosperity,
mind training, and success in the material world. The mental
technique that he called "thinking in the Certain Way," was
intended to establish a state of positivity and self-affirmation.
The contents, with chapter titles like "How to Use the Will" and
"Further Use of the Will" advance Wattles's concept of the "Certain
Way." Similar keywords about will power, mastery, and success are
found in the writings of contemporary early 20th century authors
Charles F. Haanel (The Master Key System), the Methodist minister
Frank Channing Haddock (Power of Will, Power for Success, Mastery
of Self for Wealth Power Success), and Elizabeth Towne (How to Grow
Success). The Science of Getting Rich (1910) is a companion volume
to the author's book on health from a New Thought perspective, The
Science of Being Well (1910) and his personal self-help book The
Science of Being Great (1911). All three were originally issued in
matching bindings. The Science of Getting Rich preceded similar
financial success books such as The Master Key System by Charles F.
Haanel (1912) and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937). In
the 100 years since its publication, it has gone through many
editions, and remains in print from more than one publisher. The
Science of Getting Rich was credited by Rhonda Byrne as one of the
inspirations for her popular 2006 film and 2007 book The Secret. As
Byrne explained it on the web site of Oprah Winfrey, "Something
inside of me had me turn the pages one by one, and I can still
remember my tears hitting the pages as I was reading it. ...] It
gave me a glimpse of The Secret. It was like a flame inside of my
heart. And with every day since, it's just become a raging fire of
wanting to share all of this with the world." The book is included
in personal development scholar Tom Butler-Bowdon's list of "50
Success Classics" in his 2004 book of that name.
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