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Hey, what's up, everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 142 of Ask Pat.

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So now let's get to today's question from Michael.

Hi, Pat.

My name is Michael Costanzo.

I have a blog called Rags to Riches.

You can find it at mcastanzo4.org.com and my question is regarding um the movie the secret if you

ever seen it and the book uh think you grow rich and if you have ever read or seen that and if you

use any of the techniques um taught in in them if so could you please uh just talk a

little bit about it what you found uh to work or not worked and um yeah look forward to hear from you

thanks michael thank you so much for your question uh it's an interesting question because

there's been a lot of talk about these books actually it's funny because I've just noticed a lot more people talking about them lately for whatever reason. But for those of you out there who don't know what these books or this movie is, first one, the secret is by an author named Rhonda Byron. And she got pretty famous by becoming an author who got on the Oprah Winfrey

show and became a New York Times bestseller where it remained on that list for 146

consecutive weeks.

This book called The Secret is about, you know, it's similar to the law of attraction,

you know, claiming that positive thinking can create life-changing results,

such as increased wealth and health and happiness and those sorts of things. And think and grow rich

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