Where does The Secret get it right? Part 4

I’ve heard it said different in different ways: The person you become is easily predicted by the books you read, the people you associate with, the media you consume. The sources we allow access to our minds without the filters up (should we ever allow uncritical access?) shape us.

Why does a book, highlighted by Oprah, become a best seller? Because she is an influencer, second to pretty well no one in the world today. People respect her, and believe that her opinion is right. Whether you and I agree with her or not is irrelevant; many do, and so her opinions become their opinions.

Whose opinion do you believe is right, just because it’s their opinion? Your parent’s? Best friend’s? Some spiritual leader’s or author’s, your horoscope, a celebrity’s? What if they’re wrong? What you and I think is the result of who and what we have allowed in. And what we think is a huge piece of who we are.
It takes a lot of mental energy to dig in and develop our own opinions rather than just uncritically adopting the opinions and convictions of others. In fact, to be honest, all of us have synthesized opinions which are based on our life context, including the views of others, with greater or lesser portions of original thought injected into the mix.

So, again, I agree with The Secret that what we think is huge. But ironically, many have adopted the book wholesale without actually thinking for themselves.