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The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly.^[1][2] The book alleges Energy (esotericism) as assurance of its effectiveness. The book has sold 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 languages.

Background[edit]

The Secret was released as a film in March 2006, and later the same year as a book. The book is influenced by Wallace Wattles' 1910 book, The Science of Getting Rich,^[3] which Byrne received from her daughter during a time of personal trauma, in 2004.^[4]New York Times bestselling authors of The Passion Test, Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood, are not featured in the film or the book, but arranged 36 of the 52 interviews for the film, many of which are referenced in the book.^[5]

The book served as the basis for the 2020 film The Secret: Dare to Dream.^[6]

Synopsis[edit]

Byrne re-introduces a notion originally popularized by persons such as Madame Blavatsky and Norman Vincent Peale that thinking about certain things will make them appear in one's life. Byrne provides examples of historical persons who have allegedly achieved this. Byrne cites a three-step process: ask, believe, and receive.^[7] This is based on a quotation from the Bible's Matthew 21:22: 'And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

Byrne highlights the importance of gratitude and visualization in achieving one's desires, along with alleged examples. Later chapters describe how to improve one's prosperity, relationships, and health, with more general thoughts about the universe.

Reception[edit]

Gross[edit]

The book has been translated into 50 languages and has sold over 30 million copies.^[8] Due partly to an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the book and film had grossed $300 million in sales by 2009.^[9] Byrne has subsequently released Secret merchandise and several related books.

Critical response[edit]

2d rolling cat mac os. US TV host Oprah Winfrey is a proponent of the book. On The Larry King Show she said that the message of The Secret is the message she's been trying to share with the world on her show for the past 21 years.^[10] Author Rhonda Byrne was later invited to her show along with people who swear by The Secret.^[11]

Valerie Frankel of Good Housekeeping wrote an article about her trying the principles of The Secret for four weeks. While she reached some of her goals, others had improved. Frankel's final assessment is: 'Counting my blessings has been uplifting, reminding me of what's already great about my life. Visualization has forced me to pay attention to what I really desire. And laughing is never a bad idea. If you ignore The Secret's far-too-simplistic maxims (no, you will not be doomed to a miserable life for thinking negative thoughts) and the hocus-pocus (the cosmos isn't going to deliver a new car; it's busy), there's actually some helpful advice in the book. But it's nothing you don't already know.'^[12]

Bob Doyle, a prominent Law of Attraction teacher also featured in 'The Secret' movie. He is known for his Wealth Beyond Reason Program.

In 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich published Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America as a reaction to self-help books such as The Secret, claiming that they promote political complacency and a failure to engage with reality.^[13][14]

Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, is one of the harshest critics^{[citation needed]}, writing that the book is 'full of misplaced clichés, silly quotes, and superstitious drivel,' and calls it a 'playbook for entitlement and self-absorption,' which 'anybody who reads it and implements its advice .. will likely make themselves worse off in the long run.'^[15]

John G. Stackhouse Jr. has provided historical context, locating Byrne's book in the tradition of New Thought and popular religion, and concluding that 'it isn’t new, and it isn’t a secret'.^[16]

Byrne's scientific claims, in particular concerning quantum physics, have been rejected by a range of authors including Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons at The New York Times^[17] and Harvard physicist Lisa Randall.^[18] Mary Carmichael and Ben Radford, writing for the Center for Inquiry, have also pointed out that The Secret has no scientific foundation, stating that Byrne's book represents: 'a time-worn trick of mixing banal truisms with magical thinking and presenting it as some sort of hidden knowledge: basically, it’s the new New Thought.'^[19]

References[edit]

1. ^Shermer, Michael (1 June 2007). 'The (Other) Secret'. Scientific American. 296 (6): 39. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0607-39. PMID17663221. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
2. ^Radford, Benjamin (3 February 2009). 'The Secret'. Live Science. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
3. ^Jerry Adler (2007), 'Decoding 'T', Newsweek
4. ^The Secret, p. ix.
5. ^Attwood, Chris (10 July 2018). 'Chris Attwood, Founder and President of The Beyul'. LinkedIn.
6. ^Review by Brian Lowry. ''The Secret: Dare to Dream' turns the bestselling book into what feels like a Hallmark movie'. CNN. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
7. ^The Secret, p. 47.
8. ^'Creative Biography :: Official Web Site of The Secret and The Power'. Thesecret.tv. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
9. ^'What People Are Still Willing To Pay For'. Forbes.com. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
10. ^LearningTheSecret (9 May 2013). 'Oprah Winfrey speaks about The Secret - Law of Attraction and how to use it!'. YouTube. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
11. ^'Discovering The Secret'. Oprah.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
12. ^'Do You Know The Secret?'. goodhousekeeping.com. 18 September 2007.
13. ^Ehrenreich, Barbara (2009). Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. New York: Metropolitan Books. p. 235. ISBN978-0-8050-8749-9. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
14. ^'Author Barbara Ehrenreich on 'Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America''. Democracy Now!. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
15. ^Manson, Mark (26 February 2015). 'The Staggering Bullshit of 'The Secret''. markmanson.net. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
16. ^John. 'Oprah's Secret: New? Old? Good? Bad? John G. Stackhouse, Jr'. Johnstackhouse.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
17. ^Chabris, Christopher; Simons, Daniel (24 September 2010). 'Fight 'The Power''. The New York Times.
18. ^Randall, Lisa. 2011. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. p. 10.
19. ^'Secrets and Lies'. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 29 March 2007.

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Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukicevic recently discovered that Apple's open-source WebKit browser engine users a number of undocumented framework APIs that Apple hasn't made accessible to third-party developers. This revelation has sparked a minor controversy which has led some to question if the software company is giving itself an unfair home court advantage.

Hero generations (itch) mac os. Vukicevic made his discovery when he noticed an unexpected performance problem in Firefox 3. After careful examination, he traced the problem back to Beam Sync, an optimization added in Tiger that introduced coalesced window drawing updates. As we noted when we examined the feature last year, there are some rare corner cases where Beam Sync actually degrades performance.

Apple supplies and documents a plist key that can be used as a last-resort mechanism to disable coalesced updates, but doesn't provide any publicly-accessible way to do so directly through code. This is problematic for software components that are designed to be embedded in other applications, because it means that the plist key will have to be set for each one. Firefox's embedded Gecko rendering engine is increasingly being used in a growing number of cross-platform desktop applications and would consequently benefit from a programmatic mechanism for disabling coalesced updates.

Vukicevic became curious about how Apple's WebKit addresses the performance issued and was surprised to discover that Safari did not use the plist tweak. Further examination turned up a header file in Safari with references to an undocumented method called WKDisableCGDeferredUpdates that, he discovered, Safari is using to disable coalesced updates programmatically. The wind and wilting blossom (demo) mac os. Unfortunately, the library is distributed binary-only and the licensing implications of using it are unclear.

Mozilla developer Robert O'Callahan has followed the issue closely and is concerned 'that the Mac playing field is tilted against [Mozilla].' He explains in a blog entry: 'Disassembly shows these WK functions are mostly just wrappers around undocumented framework functions. The source to the WK wrappers is not available; the implementations are in a binary blob library that you download with the Webkit sources. It appears the sole purpose of closing the source to this library is to conceal the signatures of the undocumented framework APIs used by Webkit, presumably so that ISVs like us can't use them.. It's worth reflecting that if Microsoft was doing this, they'd likely be hauled before a judge, in the EU if not the US.'

Why Apple is keeping this API close to the vest

There are, of course, plenty of reasons why a company might not want to expose internal APIs. Software libraries often wrap high-level abstractions around underlying functionality so that implementation details can be altered incrementally without breaking the code interfaces that are used by third-party applications. Methods that are deprecated, temporary, not well-tested, version-specific, or unpredictably disruptive to other elements of the system might also not be appropriate for widespread use in general purpose desktop applications by developers who aren't intimately familiar with the implications.

Although it's safe to say that developers generally shouldn't be expected to produce meticulous public documentation for all internal functionality, there are definitely reasons why some of these important framework methods used by WebKit, which are clearly not application-specific, should be made available to the general developer community.

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Apple's developers have responded to the controversy by stating that disabling coalesced updates is undesirable and shouldn't be done. Dave Hyatt, an Apple developer who works on the WebKit framework and who contributed to the creation of Firefox while formerly working at Netscape, posted a comment on Vukicevic's blog with some additional insights. 'The programmatic disabling of coalesced updates should not be public API. It's actually a very dangerous thing to do,' Hyatt wrote. 'We aren't really happy with that code in WebKit, but we had to do it to avoid performance regressions in apps that embedded WebKit. Technically it's wrong though, since we turn off the coalesced updates for any app that uses WebKit! This includes drawing they do that doesn't even use WebKit.'

Mac shareware developer and volunteer Mozilla contributor Robert Accettura responded to Hyatt's defense with skepticism. 'Should Apple be deciding what other software developers can do, when they themselves can't follow the same standards?' Accettura asked. 'I'd say that if WebKit feels it has to use it, there's likely others out there in the same situation regardless of 'best practice'.'

Apple developer Maciej Stachowiak posted a comment encouraging Mozilla developers to file bug reports requesting public APIs when they discover internal functionality that they require. That could prove problematic, however, because third-party developers obviously have no way of knowing exactly what internal functionality is available. '[I]f there's particular private APIs used be WebKit (or for that matter even ones not used by WebKit) that you need for Mozilla, please file at and let me know the bug number, I'll make sure it gets some visibility,' Stachowiak wrote. 'Having a third-party developer request helps us make the case that more of these things should be public API.'

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Cutting corners or bad behavior?

Although undocumented APIs are understandably a source of frustration for third-party developers, there is no justification for claims that this was done to intentionally disadvantage Apple competitors. Apple supplied a fully documented, standardized mechanism to provide the exact same performance advantage, but just didn't provide it in a manner that is sufficiently flexible for the specific requirements of Firefox—and a small handful of other applications that could possibly be in the same position.

For someone coming from the open-source world, where everybody has achieved an enlightened understanding of the benefits that come from full disclosure, omissions of this nature are extremely puzzling. 'To be clear, I do not think that Apple is in any way trying to purposely 'cripple' non-Apple software,' Vukicevic wrote in his blog entry. 'However, as I said, the undocumented functionality could be useful for Firefox and other apps to implement things in an simpler (and potentially more efficient) manner. I don't think this is malicious, it's just an unfortunate cutting of corners that is way too easy for a company that's not fully open to do.'

There are plenty of times in the past where we have seen Apple engage in blatantly bad behavior ranging from silly missteps—like breaking DTrace—to willfully abusive misconduct—like locking out third-party iPod management software. On the scale of Apple bloopers, this one lands squarely in the irritatingly inconsiderate category, like hiding the good scotch before inviting friends over for a drink.

Many questions remain unanswered about the functionality behind of the rest of the undocumented methods. This situation didn't turn up anything nefarious, but it definitely leads one to wonder what else Apple has behind the curtain that isn't being shared.

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