Thinkupman - Thinkupman presents: The Strangest Secret: Classic Wisdom for Everyday People

T HINKUPMAN P RESENTS :

T HE S TRANGEST

S ECRET

T HINKUPMAN P RESENTS :

T HE S TRANGEST

S ECRET

by Earl Nightingale

Reintroduced by Thinkupman:

Classic Wisdom for Everyday People

2019 Thinkupman

Created by Mr. Mo

Thinkupman Presents: The Strangest Secret

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A BOUT T HINKUPMAN

T hinkupman is your Success Superhero with one single mission: to make YOU successful! Naysayers believe that success is only for the chosen few and that the rest should be satisfied with a mediocre life. Thinkupman doesnt believe so! He knows that everyone, including YOU, has the potential to achieve success.

But whats stopping most people? Only one thing: ignorance.

Thinkupman believes that ignorance is the root of all evil. In fact, it is the main reason behind most wars, violence, racism, and unhappiness we face today.

Remember how ignorance once led us to believe that the earth was flat, that smoking (cigarettes) was the best way to relieve pregnancy constipation, and that wireless communication was just crazy talk? We now laugh at these beliefs but back then, people were imprisoned and even sentenced to death for standing up against them.

Thinkupman is here to eradicate ignorance by reintroducing Self-Help materials catered toward our younger generation.

Thinkupman foresees that at the end of his mission, humans will look back at concepts such as war, racism, and violence as foolish dogmas of the past, born from ignorance, and wonder how we ever supported them.

But until then, he needs YOU to be successful!

Are YOU ready for success?

Are YOU ready to unleash your true potential?

Are YOU ready for Thinkupman?

Thinkupman is ready for YOU.

Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.

- Plato

C ONTENTS

S psttt. Want to be let in on a secret? This secret is unusual, offbeat, downright strange. In fact, its one of the strangest secrets weve come across. This secret is so powerful it could completely transform the way you look at life and your future.

In fact, if you take the time to truly understand this secret and apply it to your life, you will achieve whatever you wantlookout, theres no stopping you once you begin!

Eager to know what this secret is? Good. Listen up.

Lets say theres a group of 100 peopleyoung adults, all around twenty-five years old. Perhaps this group includes the future-you and your friends. All of you have had the same opportunities and advantages; youre now standing shoulder-to-shoulder, at the starting line of a brand-new life.

But heres the interesting part: although each one of you have different aspirations, one common belief binds you all. What is this belief? Each of you truly believe that youre going to be successful in life!

Sounds promising. But how will things pan out? Lets climb inside our mental time machine and fast-forward to forty years ahead. They say Time flies, right? Well in our thought experiment, you and your friends are now sixty-five years old. All 100 of you. Youre now retired and reflecting on all the achievements in your life.

There are a lot of years between age twenty-five and age sixty-five; thats certainly enough time to look back and admire your many accomplishments, right? As ambitious as you and your friends were at twenty-five, youd imagine that most of you would have achieved success.

But guess what. Heres the truth:

Out of 100 people, only five people would have eventually made the cut!

Imagine thatwe started with a group of 100 peoplebright-eyed, confident young adults, but in the end, only five are living the life they dreamed.

Five.

You can count the successes on one hand, dont you know. Youre probably wonderingWhy only five? Why did the others fail? How did they lose that energy, that spark that they had when they were twenty-five? What happened to their dreams, their plans, and their hopes? And perhaps, being the smart reader that you are, youll reflect on the most important question of all: If each of these 100 young people had envisioned a certain kind of life for themselves, why is there such a wide gap between what they planned and what they eventually accomplished?

That, dear reader, is what we call the strangest secret.

A few years ago, a reporter asked the late Nobel Peace awardee, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, a question that made history. Why did this question make history? Because of Dr. Schweitzers reply.

Reporter: Doctor, what is wrong with people today?

The great doctor was silent for a moment and then.

Dr. Schweitzer: People simply dont think!

Chew on that. Do you agree with Dr. Schweitzer? Do people today walk, talk, work, love, and sleep all day long without thinking?

This is what we need to talk about today.

Why now? you ask, your brain turning facts at the speed of lightning. With all respect to the good Dr. S., humans have done quite well for themselves, you argue, Weve even come close to colonizing another planetit looks like people are thinking quite a lot!