Now I think Rhonda Byrne deliberately gave her “Secret” a lineage that didn’t require her to share its success with anybody else. Like how’d that convo go? “Sorry you’re grieving, Mom! Here’s a scammy get-rich-quick book to cheer you up!” And that’s the exact situation that Byrne described in her testimony. It’s a weird book for a daughter to give a mother devastated by grief after the loss of her own father, though. Wattles’ short book details “the Certain Way of Thinking.” It’s just the Law of Attraction: wish in just the right way, and you’ll get filthy rich. Then I found out about the plagiarism lawsuit that erupted in the wake of the documentary. But this woo-peddler didn’t seem to match her own woo.

Definitely, she’s shrewd, driven, and intelligent. Not to be insulting, truly, but she didn’t seem like the type to just come up with something syncretistic like this. Her testimony confused the heck out of me. Since then, she’s been churning out expansion packs related to the documentary. The Secret gave Byrne exactly what she’d always wanted. Then she dropped The Secret in 2006 and everything changed. But the enormous fame and wealth she craved eluded her. One of her previous bosses said of her, “She wasn’t ever caught napping, Rhonda.” She wasn’t doing badly at all. She did network TV for decades, and soon became known as a wheeler-dealer. It lists four of the many TV shows she produced. The creator of The Secret, Rhonda Byrne, accomplished little of note before 2006.

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