The Oprah Winfrey Show featured the book titled The Secret written by Rhonda Byrne and it became a worldwide sensation. The New York Times bestseller list had the self help book at the top and it was based on a similar study by Willian Walker Atkinson. The Secret became very popular that a DVD movie was created based on it and it was rewritten into another language especially Spanish which was distributed worldwide. Not everyone was pleased with the works of the author and the filmmakers of The Secret that is why they got heavily criticised and mocked.

Known media personalities and online publishers has written a lot of criticisms on The Secret book written by Byrne. Why do you think that happened? The Secret makes people believe that if they think positively they will get everything they have wished for. It may have affected lives on a case to case basis but the Secret could not solve everything as there are some things that an individual cannot control such as other people and nature. The high sales and exposure that the Secret got was due to the fact that it had become popular. The critics strongly think that the followers of the philosophy have nothing else to gain but false hope. Wealth and happiness are attained by the author and her publishers as claimed by the critics.

Companies who conduct trainings for their employees have used the movie as an AVP and some of them have expressed on their blogs that it actually makes them feel uncomfortable.The Secret movie may not have been that crazily raved about, it did gave a few insightful points. Should you want to learn more about the methodologies behind the secret, there are The Secret wiki that you can turn to.

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