i was prompted by several people to get this and check it out...tied in to the "what the #$@%& do we know" idea that at the level of the very very very exceedingly small, you have an influence on the events surrounding you. the secret seems to take this one step further...whatever you think about, you get. if you think abundance, you get abundance. if you fixate on negative, you get negative. it's something that i have incorporated in to my life, and in to my thought patterns...having an awareness of when i'm psyching myself out or setting myself up for a bad outcome allows me to change the way i think about these things, which seems to result in better things happenning. sorry, that's a bit confusing. short version - think good, good happens. think bad, bad happens. therefore, think good.