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Believe In Yourself

In "Believe in Yourself" Dr. Murphy shows you how the power of believing in yourself will help you achieve your dreams. He illustrates his points with wonderful stories about how inventors, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs have used this power to reach the highest of heights. By the end of the book you will have the tools for success.

Have your faith lost in yourself? Have you left trusting your subconscious mind because it cannot fulfill your dreams? Or do you want to achieve your goals with the help of the subconscious mind, but you need a better way?

If the answer to these questions is yes, this summary is for you. In this Believe In Yourself book summary, we will discuss a small but powerful book by the best-selling author of “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” Dr. Joseph Murphy . The book is “Believe In Yourself.”

Why read the summary here?

This book has so many articles and blogs, so why read here?

I must congratulate you first for this question and then tell you that I am a bibliophile, and I read books, note the steps, try them and then summarise the book’s lessons’ impact on me.

So, if you know me from my YouTube Channel – Readers Books Club – you may know how deeply I get into books and bring out nothing but the best! The same treatment I have done with this book, and the result is your reading summary.

About the author

Joseph Murphy was born on May 20, 1898, in a small town in Ireland. In his late teen years, he arrived in the United States with only $5 in his pocket. Along with working odd jobs, he enrolled in a school to study pharmacy. With his keen mind and desire to learn, he passed the qualification exam and became a pharmacist.

When the United States entered World War II, Joseph was assigned to work in the medical unit. At that time, he renewed his interest in religion and began to read extensively about various religious beliefs. From his studies, Joseph became interested in the various Asian religions and came to India to learn about them in depth. He studied all of the major religions from the time they began.

Joseph, in the Bible, means ‘disciplined or controlled imagination.’ It is one of the first facilities of the mind. It has the power to make your ideas real. Imagination is the mighty instrument used by great scientists, artists, physicists, inventors, and mystics.

When the world said, “It is impossible; it can’t be done,” the man with imagination said, ‘It is done!’. A great industrialist once told the author how he started in a small store. He said that he used to dream of a large corporation with branches all over the country. He also said that he regularly and systematically pictured the giant offices, factories, stores, and buildings in his mind because he knew that he could make this real through the alchemy of the mind.

He prospered and began to attract himself by the law of attraction –  the ideas, friends, money, and everything needed to manifest his dream. He cultivated his imagination. Then he started living with these mental patterns until imagination clothed them in the form. The author liked that this man said, “It is just as easy to imagine yourself successful as it is to imagine failure, but far more interesting.”

Imagination wears a coat of many colors. A coat is a psychological covering. Your psychological garments are the mental attitudes, moods, and feelings you entertain. For example, you can imagine your friend who is poor and living in the lap of luxury. You can see his face light up with joy. It can make any idea or desire real.

You can imagine abundance where lack is, peace where discord is, and health where there is sickness. With your imagination, you can actually hear the invisible voice of your mother, even though she lives 10000 miles away from you. You can also see her clearly, quite as vividly as if she is with you. This is the wonderful power you possess. You can develop and cultivate this power to become successful and prosperous.

What is a right mental attitude?

The author shares a story here. Many years ago, he printed an article on reincarnation. These pamphlets were on display on a book counter of a church where he lectured. In the beginning, very few of the pamphlets were sold because the salesgirl disliked the contents.

The author then explained the Biblical meaning of reincarnation to her. She understood all the contents and became enthusiastic about the booklets. They were all sold before the author’s lecture was completed. The author was astonished after seeing this. This is an example of a right mental attitude.

Your mental attitude means what your mental reaction to people, circumstances, and objects near you is.

It directs your relationship with your co-workers? Are you friendly with people, animals, and the Universe? Do you think that the Universe is doing wrong things to you? In short, what is your attitude?

So, if your attitude is not right, then how can you develop the right mental attitude? Let’s see how you can do it.

Developing the right mental attitude

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can irritate you or hurt you without your mental consent. You are the only thinker in your world, and nothing can move you into anger or sorrow without your mental consent.

Realize that you are the master of your thought world. Emotions follow thought. Hence, you are supreme in your own orbit. Just believe in yourself.

Do you permit others to influence you? Do you allow the headlines in the newspapers and the gossip of others to frustrate you? If you do, then your attitude is wrong, and you need to change it and just believe in yourself.

Do you imagine the evil of others? If you do, notice the emotion generated in your deeper self; it is negative and destructive to your health and prosperity. Imagine that another person is mean and dishonest; notice the emotion generated in yourself.

Now reverse the situation and imagine the same person as honest, sincere, and loving; notice the emotion generated in you. Is it positive? Are you not, therefore, master of your attitudes?

In reality, the truth of the whole matter is that your view of God determines your whole attitude toward life in general. If your view is that God is the spiritual power within you, who is always guiding you and taking you towards prosperity, then you will look at the world in a positive and affirmative way.

A young boy of sixteen going to school said to the author, ‘I am getting very poor grades. My memory is failing. I do not know what’s the matter?’ The only thing wrong was his attitude. He adopted a new mental attitude by knowing how important his studies were to get entrance into a good college and become a lawyer.

He began to pray significantly, which is one of the quickest ways to change the mentality. This young boy realized that there was a spiritual power within him. He also began to claim that his memory was absolutely perfect and that infinite intelligence always told him everything he needed to know.

He began to radiate love and goodwill to teachers and fellow students. This young boy is now enjoying greater freedom than he has ever enjoyed earlier, and you can do this too. Just believe in yourself.

Imagination

We have said previously that all our mental attitudes are conditioned by imagination. If you imagine that it is going to be a black day today, that business is going to be very poor, that it is raining, and that no customers will come into your store, then you will see the result of your negative imagery.

Imagine that things are lovely, noble, and good. Your entire emotional attitude towards life will change. What do you imagine about life? Is your life going to be happy? Or is it one trapped with frustration?

It is really out of the imaginative mind of man that all religions are born. It is out of the realm of imagination that television, the radio, super jets, and all other modern inventions came. Your imagination is the treasure house of infinity, which releases to you all the precious jewels of music, art, poetry, and inventions.

For a more detailed understanding of the imagination, you can also read the summary of “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”. The link is just down below:

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

A businessman whose business is growing, yet dwells on negativity, is an example of the destructive use of imagination. He comes home from the office, creates a motion picture in his mind of failure, imagines an empty bank balance, and imagines selling his house and business.

If he constantly indulges in this mental picture, he will cause failure to happen. He had the choice of failure or success, but he chose failure. This is the power of imagination.

They take useless worries; they never seem to imagine anything good or lovely. They seem to know that something bad or destructive is always going to happen. They cannot tell you one reason why something good should happen. However, they are ready with all the reasons why something evil should occur. Now you can ask why is this?

Why people think negative?

The reason is simple. These people are habitually negative; that is, most of their thinking is of a negative and destructive nature. As they continue to make a habit of these negative patterns of thought, they condition their subconscious mind negatively.

So make a choice now. Begin to think constructively. To think is to speak. Your thought is your word. Let your words be like a honeycomb, which is sweet to the ear.

What is your inner speech like at this moment reading this summary? Perhaps you are saying to yourself, “I can’t do it. It is impossible. I’m too old now. What chance have I? I have no money.”

You can see your words are not like honey. They are not sweet to your ear; they do not lift you up or inspire you. So take a pledge by saying these words to yourself. Repeat them with me. “From this moment, I will allow only those ideas and thoughts in my mind that inspire me and strengthen me.”

Talking to subconscious mind

So now, let’s see how you may positively convey an idea or mental image to your subconscious mind.

The conscious mind of man is personal and selective. It chooses, analyses, and selects. It does all the work of reasoning. Just believe in yourself and move.

The subconscious mind can also be seen as a servant of the conscious mind. The subconscious obeys all the orders of the conscious mind. The conscious mind of a man is the motor and the subconscious is the engine. You have to start the motor, and the engine will do the work. Because of the conscious mind, the power of the subconscious mind is awakened.

Step 1: The quiet mind

The first step in conveying your clarified desire, idea, or image to the subconscious mind is to relax and immobilize the attention to get quiet. This quiet, relaxed, and peaceful attitude of mind prevents extra matter and false ideas from going into your mind. Furthermore, in the quiet, passive, receptive attitude of mind, the effort is reduced to a minimum.

Step 2: Imagine

In the second step, you begin to imagine the reality of that which you desire. Here the author gives his example, and you too can use this example to achieve your desired thing. Just believe in yourself and imagine.

The author wanted to sell his home. So he placed the board in front of his garden that said ‘For sale by owner.’ The second day after placing the sign, he asked himself as he was going to sleep, ‘Suppose you sold the House, what would you do?’

Then he answered his own question. And said, ‘I would take that board down and throw it in the garage.’ In his imagination, he took out the board and threw it in the garage, and he felt the inner satisfaction of it all, realizing that it was finished. He just believed in himself.

The next day a man gave him a deposit of $1000 and said, “Take your board down; we are buying this home now”. Immediately the author pulled the board down and took it into the garage. The outer action happened because of the inner. The type of image impressed on the subconscious mind, so is the type of image formed in your life.

If a person has a mortgage due at the bank but he does not have much money to cover it – if he applies this principle, then the subconscious mind will provide him with the money. Never think about how it happened and from where it will happen. Just believe in yourself.

The subconscious mind has ways you know not of. It is one of the instruments that God gave to man, so he could complete his needs. The man who hasn’t the money to give the mortgage to the bank can imagine himself giving a cheque to the cashier.

The important point is to become intensely interested in the mental picture you have created and make it real and natural . The more nicely you engage with that picture, the more effectually will the imaginary picture be deposited in the subconscious mind.

Suppose you are saying that I am not able to see any way to get the money to pay off the mortgage. But do not worry about it. Realize that there is a power inherent within you that can provide you with everything you say to provide it. You can now live with the feeling that: ‘My house is free from all debt, and I have a lot of money.’

Do not question where you will get money to repay the mortgage. You can also imagine a letter from the bank in which it is written that you have paid up all the debt. Live with it until it becomes real for you.

Become convinced now that there is a power within you that is capable of bringing what you imagine . And the important thing is that sitting idly by day, daydreaming, or just imagining the things you would like to possess will not attract them to you. You must actually believe that you are operating a law of mind.

Know what you want

The subconscious mind will carry out the idea because you have a clear-cut concept of what you wish to possess. Imagine clearly the fulfillment of your desire. The subconscious mind is the film upon which the picture is impressed. And then, the subconscious develops the picture and sends it back into real-world – meaning – in the material form.

The individual who habitually maintains a mental attitude of faith succeeds in life. The individual who remains depressed attracts failure in his life. That’s why make an attitude of faith.

God is always successful in his undertaking. Man is equipped to succeed because God is within him. All the potentialities and all the qualities of God are within man. You are born to win.

Also, the intelligence of God is within you, which can raise you above all difficulties. Accept the fact that you have inner creative power. This power is responsive and reactive to your thoughts. If a man thinks of failure, the thought of failure attracts failure. That’s why always think and speak positively.

A business friend of the author, who was a tailor one time, told the author that: “All I ever do is add. I never subtract.” He means that success is a plus sign. Just believe in yourself and let the magic unfold.

Add to your growth, wealth and power, and knowledge. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true and lovely. Imagine yourself being successful and feeling this thing with your heart. You must become successful. You are never a slave to external conditions. You are the master of them.

Friends, you just saw a miracle unfold before you in this summary.

Go to your reservoir of immense possibilities and think and be like anything you ever wanted. Just imagine, and be positive, and wonders are bound to happen as you are the creation of this Universe.

God bless you all !

Believe In Yourself Book Review

The book is for anyone who is witnessing blockages in any aspect of life. The simple and lucid steps to reach the subconscious mind mentioned in this book will be convenient to conquer the mind and make life a truly happening one.

However, a lot of places, the book has gone too much into details of mind that any person may find challenging to understand and follow.

Overall, the book is a gift for anyone who wants to decode his mind, strengthen his belief system, and create the life of his dreams!

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By Himanshu dev Sharma on December 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

“Imagination is all we have as a creator… Believe in the power of imagination and so in yourself…”

This is, in my opinion, should be the summary of the book ‘Believe in yourself’ by Dr. Joseph Murphy.

Though the majority of the book is essentially a kind of sequel of his previous book ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’, wherein he described how to train your subconscious mind through faith and vivid imagination. (Read my review here : )

The book showcases the power of imagination and suggests this, as a prime quality of highly successful people. Imagination empowers us as it suggests a likely outcome. It then keeps us guided and motivated till we see it in reality. It makes us believe in ourselves. What else one can ask for… ?

The vital part of imagination is happiness and disruption. We attain happiness and go for guided disruption. Entrepreneurship survives on imagination of a great product and service.

A great topic and a very interesting read by Dr. Joseph Murphy.

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Believe in Yourself Joseph Murphy Summary

Have you ever had a day when you wanted to do something, but then suddenly negative thoughts crept in and you started doubting yourself. You know, you are not alone. When it comes to negative self-talk, I think I could’ve easily win a Nobel Prize on that. Gosh, I used to be a miserable person. I remember sometimes these negative thoughts were so strong that I gave up even before starting. I got to a point and I said to myself, enough is enough. And since then, I've been doing all I can to change that negative self-talk. And one of the books I found super helpful is this one, Believe in Yourself by Joseph Morphy. His other book, The Power of Subconscious Mind, absolutely changed the way I look at my subconscious mind. And this book is also filled with great insights.

You might ask, how should I believe in myself? Very good question. To answer that, first we have to know who is me. Here it's you. You have the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and then you have the body. Now the conscious mind has the ability to choose thoughts. Those thoughts turn into pictures and we turn those pictures into subconscious mind. And the subconscious mind has no ability to reject any thoughts. So it accepts them without any question and then it expresses the action through the body. Now, what is the problem? We have to go back to our childhood. When we were a child, the conscious mind wasn’t developed, and this is how we arrive at this world. This is the baby. No conscious mind. There is only the subconscious mind and it is wide open. You can put anything in it. Why do you think you speak the language you speak, you speak that language because you were surrounded by people that speak that language and the language just went into the subconscious mind. Why do you think you like the foods you like? It's programming. That's right. Now, let's stop and think about the environment we were raised in. Here is the baby. The ideas and thoughts and concepts that are going on around that baby are going right into that baby's subconscious mind. Now through repetition over and over and over again, and remember, the baby is getting it all day, every day, and this goes on for four or five years. And the baby reaches the age of four or five where they can start to think. That baby is programmed to think like the people he was surrounded by. If the people that were surrounding that baby, always lived in hard times, never believed in themselves, always doubted themselves, that's probably how that baby is going to grow up. Now, this is bizarre, but this is how it happens. It's how it happened to me. I was raised in a small village in an undeveloped country. We never believed in ourselves. There was always talk about how others can do it, but we can't. That you should be satisfied with what you've got.

Here we've got the baby with the subconscious programming and the conscious mind has developed. They have the ability to think, what are they going to think? They are going to think thoughts that are in harmony with programming of the subconscious mind. Now, this programming is literally controlling the behavior. Consciously, you can think of one thing, but subconsciously the other idea will be controlling you. We can sit down and read these self-help books and we say, yeah, I can do that. That makes sense. It's logical, but then we can't do it. Why? Because the subconscious programming is literally controlling your life. Now, let's think about of how this programming was formed. It was formed through repetition, the ideas being planted in your subconscious mind. Now you know why you are getting the results you're getting. It has nothing to do with your intellect, your intellect. You can figure out how to do things, but that doesn't mean you are going to do them. You hear people say, I believe that, but their behavior indicate they've never heard of it. Why? We believe something in the conscious level. On the subconscious level, the programming believes something else. We've got to take the beliefs that we have consciously determined by thinking and plant them in the place of the old belief. See, I used to believe that I couldn't do anything better than I was doing. The idea of doing something worthwhile with my life was farthest from my mind. You know something, as I am changing this programming, my whole world is changing. That's what it's all about. That's how we believe in ourselves. You've got to change your subconscious programming if you want to change your life. It's a beautiful concept to understand. It's terrible if you don't understand because it literally controls your life. Why do you think most people go right through their lives and keep getting the same results year after year after year? Well, it's just the way it is and they don't know. How the subconscious programming was formed? Through the repetition of information. How is this programming change? Repetition of information. You replace the negative and self-doubt thoughts with positive ones and you've got to repeat it maybe a thousand times a day. As I started reading more books from successful people and listening to their talks, I slowly changed my subconscious programming and I'm still doing that. That's how you start to believe in yourself. I want to thank you for watching this, but I'm going to ask you to share it with one of your friends. Say, come and read this. This is a great information to understand.

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A sweet ode to a ’90s favorite.

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Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-7595-5456-6

Page Count: 128

Publisher: Little, Brown

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Amy was a sparkly girl. She sparkled wherever she went. Amy loved school and storytime was the best part of school for her. On Monday, Amy's teacher read a story about dinosaurs and Amy wanted to be a T-Rex when she grew up. Everyone laughed when she said that and Amy heard someone saying she was not strong enough to be a T-Rex. She was angry and sad. On Wednesday, her teacher read another story and it was about unicorns. After listening to the story, Amy wanted to be a unicorn when she grew up. The other kids laughed at her, saying she was only a girl and lacked the magical qualities needed to be a unicorn. Amy was sad. On Friday, Amy's teacher had a special story on mermaids. Amy was sure she could be one because she was a good swimmer. The other kids laughed even harder when she said she wanted to be a mermaid because they thought she was fat and mermaids were beautiful. Amy sat down and cried, and her tears washed away her sparkle. What happened when she visited Bubby, her grandma, on Saturday? BElieve in YOUrself! by Tammi Croteau Keen with Amy Rosvally is an uplifting and encouraging story for children who lack confidence and do not believe in themselves. The story of Amy will motivate children to write their own story instead of listening to others, and being their own kind of beautiful. Archangelo Crelencia's colorful and charming illustrations breathe life into the story, the characters, and the concept and make it a wonderful book for young readers. This book can be used as a good educational tool by tutors and parents to help children understand that beauty, strength, and magic come from within in a beautiful way.

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Dr. Murphy changed the lives of people all over the world. His legacy is being carried forward by the JMWGroupforlife.com and Dr-Joseph-Murphy.com.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written, which have sold over ten million copies worldwide.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Louise Hay and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into thirty languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. The only authorized edition is published by Penguin Random House and JMW Group.

Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

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The Story of O.J. Simpson’s Controversial Book, If I Did It , And Why It Was Canceled And Later Released

Simpson’s hypothetical account of how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend was published by one of the victim’s family in 2007

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O.J. Simpson died on April 10 from cancer. He was 76. The contentious figure, who was an actor, broadcaster and Hall of Fame football player, is now arguably best-known for his arrest, trial and acquittal for the 1994 murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Following an hours-long televised police chase — which garnered 95 million viewers — Simpson's trial lasted for months before jurors declared him not guilty of the killings in 1995.  In 2007, Simpson was arrested on non-related felony charges for armed robbery and kidnapping . At that point, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years in prison following a 2008 trial, and was released in Oct. 2017 after serving nearly nine years.

Simpson’s alleged involvement with Brown and Goldman’s murders was the subject of a highly controversial book. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer , Simpson’s hypothetical account of how he would have murdered Brown and Goldman, had a rocky road to its eventual 2007 publication. 

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Prior to If I Did It , Simpson published I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions in 1995, while he waited to appear before the jury for his hearing. Per the book’s description , I Want to Tell You was intended to be “an emotional and factual self-portrait of O. J.'s mind at this critical time,” and included letters that Simpson had received since his incarceration.

In 2006, publisher Judith Regan announced that she would publish a book by O.J. Simpson through ReganBooks, a former imprint of HarperCollins. Regan claimed that Simpson’s legal team contacted her in a 2006 interview, which became public in 2018. “I received a phone call from an attorney who said that O.J. was ready to confess,” Regan said in the interview. “And actually, I thought it was some kind of a scam and didn’t believe him, and I thought, ‘This guy’s a lunatic,’ but I took his number and said I’d call him back.”

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“The next day, I called him back and he said he was willing to do it, and the only condition that he had was that he didn’t want to call the book I Did It," Regan claimed. “He wanted to put an ‘if’ in front of it, so he would have deniability with his children . He couldn’t face his children and he couldn’t tell them that he had done it. That was the way it was portrayed to me. That was his only condition.” The book sold for a reported $3.5 million and was set to publish on Nov. 30, 2006. However, outrage from both the public and the victims' families led to the book’s publication being canceled. Regan was also fired by HarperCollins on the heels of the controversy.

“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” Rupert Murdoch, then-News Corp. chairman, said in 2006. “We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”

In the wake of his 1995 acquittal, Simpson was sued by both the Brown and Goldman families in civil court. The court ruled in the families' favor in 1997, and awarded them a $33.5 million liability judgment, though Simpson only paid a fraction of the initial amount.

Following the cancellation of the book, however, a battle for the rights to If I Did It ensued. Lorraine Brooke Associates, a company run by Simpson’s daughter, Arnelle, with the Simpson children as the main shareholders, had negotiated the original book deal with HarperCollins. However, after a California judge ordered the rights sold to benefit the Goldman family, Lorraine Brooke Associates filed for bankruptcy.

In 2007, rights were awarded to the Goldman family, CBS reported at the time , to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson. The judge presiding over that case found that Lorraine Brooke Associates was founded in an attempt to hide O.J. Simpson's involvement with the book, which led them to award the rights to the Goldmans, CBS reported.

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The Browns, who won a $24 million wrongful death case against Simpson, were awarded a 10% cut of the book’s first gross proceeds. The Goldmans were tasked with bearing the burden of finding the book a publisher, as well as its marketing efforts.

With the rights secured, the Goldman family published a revised edition of If I Did It in 2007. The new book included Simpson’s original text, as well as additional commentary from the Goldman family, the book’s original ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves and journalist Dominick Dunne. The new edition also covered the bankruptcy case and the court proceedings that led to Simpson’s conviction, per the book's description.

"After 13 years of trying to get some justice, today is probably the first time we had any sense of seeing light at the end of the tunnel," Goldman’s father, Fred, said at the hearing after the book rights were awarded. "It's gratifying to see."

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Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written, which have sold over ten million copies worldwide.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Louise Hay and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into thirty languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. The only authorized edition is published by Penguin Random House and JMW Group.

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How is it that we are living in the information age — and yet life seems to make less sense than ever? That's the question author and podcast host Amanda Montell set out to answer in her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking.

Montell says that our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that stokes our innate tendency to believe conspiracy theories and mysticism.

"We grow up hearing certain legends and myths and lore repeated ad nauseum, and we perceive them as true," she says. "It's the reason why ... I genuinely thought, until I was an adult, that it took seven years to digest gum." (Despite what you may have heard, bubble gum typically digests the same way as food.)

Montell, who co-hosts the podcast Sounds Like A Cult, says this cognitive bias is what allows misinformation and disinformation to spread so easily, particularly online. It also helps explain our tendency to make assumptions about celebrities we admire.

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"We see a pop star whose music we enjoy, and we assume that they must also be worldly, kind, nurturing," Montell says. "Or we enjoy someone's fashion sense and we jump to the conclusion that they're gregarious or maybe they speak other languages — we jump to these conclusions for which there is little or no evidence."

Montell says that in an age of overwhelming access to information, it's important to step away from electronic devices. "We are meant for a physical world. That's what our brains are wired for," she says. "These devices are addictive, but I find that my nervous system really thanks me when I'm able to do that."