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The Not-So-Spiritual Quest for a Self-Help Book
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A woman goes on a mystical quest for a magical book, only to find that the treasure is actually a generic self-help guide.
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The Secret is a self-help book written by Rhonda Byrne based on a documentary of the same name.
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Self-Help
Summary
The Secret is a self-help book written by Rhonda Byrne based on a documentary of the same name. It was released in 2006 and sold millions of copies worldwide.
ChapterThe Not-So-Spiritual Quest for a Self-Help Book
EpisodeThe Secret
PodcastIf Books Could Kill
The format of the book is similar to a book-length multi-level marketing Facebook post.
02:28 - 04:18 (01:49)
Self-help
Summary
The format of the book is similar to a book-length multi-level marketing Facebook post. It consists of one to three paragraphs of the author's prose followed by quotations that support the point being made. The book was originally written in 1910 by Wallace D. Waddles, a pioneer in the self-help genre.