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Yep, I fucking knew it, Marie Forleo got her philosophy about child abuse from this book. AND YET, I feel that Jack Canfield is more sympathetic towards turbulent pasts (can't say the same for Rhonda Byrne to an extent) than Forleo ever was (a reminder: she gaslighted her readers into doubting the validity of their abuse), so that says more about her out-of-touch mentality than this book does about this topic.

Since this is the money chapter, let me just say this. Yes, people earn money because they work hard towards their goals and never give up. However, denying that some people have generational wealth and DO take advantage of others is laughable.

I don't deny the Law of Attraction so I'm happy that the Jack Canfield and John Assaraf showcase it perfectly instead of just babble. ACTION is key to this thinking.

It still blows my mind that this isn't the first time someone has told this black feather story as entrepreneurship motivation (my former boss included). Now I know where they got it from.

If you see people who are overweight, do not observe them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in your perfect body and feel it.

So dehumanize others to further your goals, understood.

Whether people have been told they had a slow thyroid, a slow metabolism, or their body size is hereditary, these are all disguises for thinking "fat thoughts." If you accept any of those conditions as applicable to you, and you believe it, it must become your experience, and you will continue to attract being overweight.

This book just said, "Fuck doctors, they know nothing."

Hey, y'all! Just letting you know that according to this book if you are harassed for being gay, it's because of your thoughts! Change them! It's not that hard, stop thinking about oppression. :)

An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the "don't want" epidemic.

Plagues actually kill people.