Book Bearings
The Science of Getting Rich or Financial Success Through Creative Thought
- 102 pages · about 2 hours
- First published 1910
- 235 editions
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1 About this book
The Science of Getting Rich, first published in 1910, is a short book by Wallace D. Wattles, a writer of the New Thought movement. In seventeen brief chapters he claims that getting rich is an exact science: there is a thinking substance from which all things are made, and a clear, steadily held mental picture of what one wants will bring it into being. He urges his audience to overcome mental barriers and to think of creating wealth, not of competing for it. The book's ideas are generally regarded as pseudoscience, not as a strategy for earning or investing; it was later taken up by the book The Secret.
- Self-help
- Business & economics
- Happiness
- Ethics
- Success
- Wealth
- New Thought
- Finance
2 What to expect
A very short self-help book from 1910, from the New Thought movement, claiming that wealth follows from thinking in a certain way. Its method is to hold a clear picture of what you want and to think of creating, not competing. It is written with complete certainty in brisk, plain chapters, and its claims are a matter of belief: there is no financial advice here in the ordinary sense.
Good for readers who want: positive-thinking classics, the roots of The Secret, and a very short read.
3 About Wallace D. Wattles
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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