The Strangest Secret

Earl Nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret” reveals why some people repeatedly succeeds while others always seem to fail. To succeed in life, one has to establish specific goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. In The Strangest Secret, Earl reveals the difference between those who succeed and those who don’t. “We become what we think about”. Our mind is like a fertile land –it will return anything we want to plant.

The Strangest Secret has motivated and changed the lives of thousands of people.

When Nightingale was seventeen he joined the United States Marines. He was one of the 12 surviving marines onboard the USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor Attack in World War II.

After the war, as the host of his own daily commentary program on WGN, Earl Nightingale arranged a deal that also gave him a commission on his own advertising sales. By 1957, he was so successful; he decided to retire at the age of 35. In the meantime, Earl had bought his own insurance company and had spent many hours motivating its sales force to greater accomplishments. It was in the fall of 1949, when he was 29 that he realized that the six words he read in Napoleon Hill’s book – “Think and Grow Rich” were the answer to the question he had been looking for! That, “we become what we think about”. He realized that he had been reading the same truth over and over again, from the New Testament…to the works of Emerson. “We become what we think about.” “As ye sow, so shall ye reap…” When he decided to go on vacation for an extended period of time, his sales manager begged him to put his inspirational words on record for their employees to get motivated while he was away. The result later became the recording entitled “The Strangest Secret”. In 1956 he produced “The Strangest Secret”, and it sold over a million copies, making it the first and only spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status.

“The Strangest Secret”