C.

the first time I heard about "The Secret," it was on some morning talk radio show. During their segment on dumb people in the news, they said something like "last week a man's bank refused to accept a check he wrote to himself for one million dollars. after watching The Secret, the man decided writing himself a check for a million dollars would help bring about that positive change he was looking for in his life."

then a year ago in my lovely personal development class, we watched some excerpts from the movie. I think the gist of the fifteen dollar dvd that holds the secret of the universe was if you think about something, it will happen.

if you think about success long enough and hard enough, you'll be successful. if you think, "I hope I don't get in a car accident," you're still putting out the vibrations of "car accident" into the universe, so you're going to get into a car accident anyway.

anything good that happens to you, you earned it by thinking about it. anything bad happens, you caused it by hoping it wouldn't happen.

the second part is completely ludicrous, so I'll say nothing of it. but as for the first part.... I came up with something at work today.

The Secret got it half right. thinking about success is necessary to become successful. HOWEVER. they stop short of finishing the idea. thinking about success and then taking action will make you successful. if you think long enough and hard enough, "how can I make money?" you will get an idea, then you try it. it probably won't work the first time, so you think some more. eventually, with the right amount of thought and action, you will get what you want. tons of positive thinking alone won't get you shit. it's because you were so driven towards your goal that you thought about it so much, and after thinking about it enough, you had a viable course of action to realize your goal. then you achieved your goal. A causes B, B facilitates C, C causes D. a shitload of B, however, will never cause D. you need C.