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Review title: "Take it, it's good for you!"
Product review: Like your mother used to say. It's good medicine to be reminded, repeatedly in several different ways, that the scripts that we play in our mind can lead to failure, and that rewriting those scripts can lead to success. And so it is a good argument. Or, The Secret is not so much an argument but an experience.But then, it takes it farther. The Secret is basically a religion, and the God in this religion is basically your mind. It is not psychology anymore; it is magic.Not only is it a religion, it is a calvinist-type religion, where it is your fault that the holocaust happened to you or that you are fat, etc.So I don't buy it, but I don't buy Santa Claus, and yet a lot of people think it is a good thing for kids to believe anyway, right? George Santayana didn't believe in God but he was still a practicing Catholic, because he thought it was good to believe in it.
