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The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought
304 pages
A brisk, philosophical manifesto that reframes wealth as a spiritual right achieved through focused, creative thought.
What it feels like
Reading this foundational New Thought classic feels like receiving a series of earnest, empowering lectures from a deeply philosophical mentor. The pace is brisk and purposeful, driven by short, declarative chapters that waste no time on fluff. Instead of practical financial advice, the text immerses you in an expansive, optimistic mood, insisting that abundance is a natural law waiting to be harnessed. The prose is slightly archaic but remarkably clear, using repetition to drill its core message into your subconscious. It is an uplifting, focused experience that shifts the reader's internal landscape from scarcity to limitless potential. This book will delight spiritual seekers and ambitious dreamers who believe that true success begins with a radical shift in mindset.
- Mood
- uplifting
- focused
- expansive
- determined
- Tone
- earnest
- authoritative
- optimistic
- pragmatic
- philosophical
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- abundance mindset · power of thought · creation over competition · personal agency · manifestation
- The writing
- Direct, declarative, and slightly archaic, utilizing repetition to hammer home its philosophical principles.
- The arc
- Moves from a baseline of perceived limitation to a soaring sense of empowered, limitless potential.
- Who it's for
- Seekers of personal empowerment who prefer a spiritual, mindset-driven approach to wealth over practical financial planning.
About the book
As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay How to Get What You Want.Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the worlds great philosophers. He then turned his life effort into this simple, slender book a volume that he vowed could replace libraries of philosophy, spirituality, and self-help for the purpose of attaining one definite goal: a life of prosperity.Wattles describes a definite science of wealth attraction, built on the foundation of one commanding idea: There is a thinking stuff from which all things are madeA thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.In his seventeen short, straight-to-the-point chapters, Wattles shows how to use this idea, how to overcome barriers to its application, and how work with very direct methods that awaken it in your life. He further explains how creation and not competition is the hidden key to wealth attraction, and how your power to get rich uplifts everyone around you.The Science of Getting Rich concludes with Wattles rare essay How to Get Want You Want a brilliant refresher of his laws of wealth creation.
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