The Science of Being Great

Name: The Science of Being Great
Author: Wallace D. Wattles
ISBN: 9781434401175

by Wallace D. Wattles, Mitch Horowitz

50 pages2018Penguin AudioISBN 9781434401175

Science Fiction Science Classics

About this book

Within This Short Book Is the One Secret That Will Deliver you to Greatness We all dream of being celebrated, rewarded, and recognized—in short, of being great. But so few people actually attain greatness. Why? In The Science of Being Great, legendary success writer Wallace D. Wattles demonstrates exactly how you can move from merely thinking of yourself as great to really being great. Inside this book is the one principle that leads to greatness. Don’t you want to be rewarded in your work? Don’t you want to be seen as a leader? Don’t you deserve respect? When you finish this brief program—easily read in the space of a lunch break—these things will be in reach, and your life will restart on a new footing. New Thought author and PEN Award-wining historian Mitch Horowitz introduces and abridges this condensation, and explores why this short book was Wattles’ greatest work. Discover the powerful, practical lesson that this life-changing classic places in your hands.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2018
Pages: 50
ISBN: 9781434401175
Language: en

About Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace Delois Wattles was born in 1860 and died in 1911. He was an American author from Illinois, and became part of the "New Thought" movement -the base of all self-help writings-, which included extraordinary names like James Allen, Prentice Mullford, and his contemporaries Orison Swett Marden, William Walker Atkison, and the editor of his works and writer herself, Elizabeth Towne. His best best known work is a book called The Science of Getting Rich (or Financial Success through Through Creative Thought", based completely on the principles of New Thought, and as the author acknowledge in the preface, had influence from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Hegel. That book inspired the world hit "The Secret", according to her author, Rhonda Byrne, in an interview with Newsweek. He also wrote two companion books to that one: The Science of Being Great; and The Science of Being Well, which complete the spine of his philosophy. His other works, previous to "The Science Trilogy", which have being made available in several versions, are: The Constructive Use of Foods (pamphlet) "Perpetual Youth" (1909, in The Cavalier), an early science fiction story. Letters to a Woman's Husband (pamphlet); Scientific Marriage (pamphlet) Hellfire Harrison (his only novel) A New Christ (1903) (A beautiful book on the social basis of the doctrine and works of Jesus, based on "Jesus: The Man and His Work", an speech he made in 1902) How to Get What you Want (1910), a shorter version with the principles of "The Science" trilogy. Making of the Man Who Can, republished later as How to Promote Yourself (1907, 1914) New Science of Living and Healing, republished as Health Through New Thought and Fasting (1909) What Is Truth? (serialized in The Nautilus Magazine, Elizabeth Towne, 1909)