The Secret is.. making people pay you for helping them! When you're not!
I am a fellow who is interested in, concerned about, and in my own way have commented on, issues of contemporary sexism. As such it should be no surprise that I enjoy reading the blog, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), on occasion. On occasion, not because it updates infrequently, or because it is only sometimes enjoyable (both of these are
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In essence, The Secret is that 'the universe' responds to the content of your thoughts and feelings, forwarding the non-disprovable hypothesis that anything good or bad that ever happens to anyone, happens as a cosmic response to them thinking of those things.
Therefore, what is the secret to improving one's life? By focussing on, and thinking about, your problems less, and constantly thinking of, and attempting to convince yourself of the reality of, the things you want. Then, with absolutely no explicit mechanism, you will send out 'waves' that the universe will respond to, and give you what you want out of nothing.
It is.. quite simply the worse 'advice' I've ever heard, promising the ultimate quick, non-workable fix. Mix in conditions guaranteeing that anyone who does not succeed while using The Secret will convince themselves not to think or talk about it, the thrill people get out of thinking something is a 'secret', and the irresponsible endorsement of the powerhouse Oprah, and you have something truly, remarkably terrible.
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