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I've watched "The Secret" this early morning (no I didn't rise up early, I stood up all night.. again). It blew me away to be honest. They dramatized it very nicely and a lot of the ideas presented hit home with me as someone who pretty much et up the whole "think and grow rich" philosophy I largely picked up from Napoleon's same named book.
However the film has been pretty controversial and I can't dismiss some of the criticism, namely the "Law of Attraction". In a nutshell I think the movie oversimplified the whole philosophy and the term "law of attraction" heavily contributed to it, and can hardly be considered a solid scientific law at this point. But I believe the concotion of the "law of attraction" was also largely unnecessary to explain the philosophy of success that The Secret mostly talks about.
I would say that what is actually going on is easily explained by the universal law of action and reaction - causality. Your thoughts and feelings affect your actions which in turn have reactions, consequences. It is through these consequences that your thoughts materialize in reality. It's not that the universe external to you just hands it to you. You cause it yourself.
This way of thinking about it, through causality rather than attraction, emphasizes much better the action that every person looking to achieve what he desires has to undertake.
The Secret did talk about taking action, but as much as they emphasized action, the spouting about the "attraction" seems to have de-emphasized this enough for the final effect of the movie to be people believing that just thinking and visualizing is enough and that the universe will somehow by itself just find the way. Taking action, in sequence, with your own effort might not be in enough people's heads at that point.
So it's no wonder that people perceive "The Secret" as this new sort of lowest common denominator religion. It ended up turning a great idea and a great philosophy into a sham in the perception of many. I suppose in trying to make the philosophy user friendly to the masses they dumbed it down into a bastardized version of the real thing.
What do you think?
However the film has been pretty controversial and I can't dismiss some of the criticism, namely the "Law of Attraction". In a nutshell I think the movie oversimplified the whole philosophy and the term "law of attraction" heavily contributed to it, and can hardly be considered a solid scientific law at this point. But I believe the concotion of the "law of attraction" was also largely unnecessary to explain the philosophy of success that The Secret mostly talks about.
I would say that what is actually going on is easily explained by the universal law of action and reaction - causality. Your thoughts and feelings affect your actions which in turn have reactions, consequences. It is through these consequences that your thoughts materialize in reality. It's not that the universe external to you just hands it to you. You cause it yourself.
This way of thinking about it, through causality rather than attraction, emphasizes much better the action that every person looking to achieve what he desires has to undertake.
The Secret did talk about taking action, but as much as they emphasized action, the spouting about the "attraction" seems to have de-emphasized this enough for the final effect of the movie to be people believing that just thinking and visualizing is enough and that the universe will somehow by itself just find the way. Taking action, in sequence, with your own effort might not be in enough people's heads at that point.
So it's no wonder that people perceive "The Secret" as this new sort of lowest common denominator religion. It ended up turning a great idea and a great philosophy into a sham in the perception of many. I suppose in trying to make the philosophy user friendly to the masses they dumbed it down into a bastardized version of the real thing.
What do you think?
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