The strangest secret

It’s the strangest thing…

As soon as I started thinking about replacing my income with writing online every single day, it happened. And quickly I might add.

Less than three months to be precise.

And I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

If you’re not familiar with Earl Nightingale, he grew up poor in LA during The Great Depression. And for a time, lived with his family in a tent in Long Beach.

Then, he joined the Marine Corps and was only one of only a handful of survivors on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Afterwards he moved to radio broadcasting and became a top radio announcer in Chicago.

Then after reading Napoleon Hill’s Think and grow Rich, he became obsessed with the idea that success and failure both start in the mind.

He researched dozens of religious and philosophical traditions looking for a common thread on what makes people successful, and distilled it into one sentence: "We become what we think about.”

And in 1956 he recorded this message on a record (yes, scratched out on wax) and distributed it to his own insurance agency’s sales staff.

You can listen to it too.

It’s titled:

The Strangest Secret

And it went on the sell over a million copies, reportedly becoming the first spoken-word recording to earn a Gold Record, and launched the modern personal-development audio industry.

All to say, maybe there is something to this strange little secret?

What do you think?

Write back and let me know if you’ve ever experienced anything like this in your life.

Best,

Kevin Hood