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The Strangest Secret — Agency, Attention, and the Limits of Positive Thinking

Can changing what you think about change your life—or does it mainly change what you notice, attempt, practice, and persist at?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Using The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale as our lens, this episode investigates one of the foundational claims of modern personal development: that “we become what we think about.”

Nightingale defines success as the progressive realization of a worthy ideal and argues that clear goals, positive thought, imagination, persistence, service, and action can transform a person's…

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