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Weekly insights into success, personal development, and the power of positive thinking from one of the most influential voices in the field of motivational broadcasting.You Become What You Think About™ is a trademark owned by Nightingale-Conant. These episodes are from the Our Changing World series by Earl Nightingale. © Nightingale-Conant.

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The King Who Pumped Too Much Money: Earl Nightingale on Inflation
4h ago · 3:44
There's no doubt that advertising has done a lot of good for all of us, even though we grumble about it now and then. The other day I was flying into Chicago from Omaha and read a very interesting ad which appeared in the Chicago Tribune. It was written as a fable or fairy tale, but it packed a great message, and I'm sure a lot of people benefited from it. Let me read it to you. The title is, The King Who Pumped Too Much Money Into His People. It seems that once there was a king named Joseph the fourth. He loved his people so much that he was always trying to do things for them. Everybody call
Earl Nightingale on Books, Knowledge, and the Idea That Frees You
7d ago · 3:49
When I was about 12 years old, I made a discovery that has saved my neck and has turned what could have been a fairly boring existence into a pretty exciting affair. It may sound as though I stumbled onto a goldmine, and in a way I suppose I did, but what really happened was that I discovered books. That's right. It suddenly dawned upon me that reading a book could be the most exciting and interesting thing in the world, and at the same time that, by reading books, I could learn all the many wonderful things that the great and wise men who have lived before me had learned at such a tremendous
Attitude Is Everything: Earl Nightingale on Winning at Life and Work
12d ago · 3:50
Of all the words in all the languages of the world, what would you say is the most important word when it comes to this business of living successfully? Well, according to the experts, the word is attitude, and it's a fact that it is this word, or rather what we mean by this word, that will determine more than any other single thing what happens to us. My dictionary defines the word attitude as a noun meaning position, disposition, or manner with regard to a person or thing. And it is our attitude that determines what happens to us in life. As William James of Harvard once put it, it is our at
Krakatoa and Mount Pelée: Volcanoes That Shook the World Forever
21d ago · 3:34
Every century some kind of major and totally unexpected disaster seems to hit in some area of the world. One of the most terrible disasters the world has ever known struck in August of 1883. At that time there was a large island, a volcanic island I might add, in the Strait of Sunda, about halfway between Sumatra and Java. When the volcano on this island decided to erupt it blew the whole island off the map of the world and formed a new one. Instead of erupting the way volcanoes are supposed to, which is to act like a kind of safety valve letting out the steam and lava a little bit at a time,
America’s Hidden Crisis: Illiteracy, Poverty, and Lost Opportunity
28d ago · 3:49
When we read of poverty and unemployment, we often wonder how these ugly statistics can persist to mar an otherwise healthy and affluent society. One of the causes can be found in an area that has received far too little publicity. Did you know that there are 10 million adults in this country over the age of 25 who are completely or functionally illiterate? Adult men and women who can neither read nor write constitute a severe economic, social, and moral problem, and 7 million of the 10 million non-readers are native-born Americans. The problem of illiteracy that plagues this country became ap
Your Next Port of Call: Earl Nightingale on Goals and Direction
1mo ago · 3:49
I had the good fortune to be raised near a harbor. As a kid, I used to spend hours down in the docks watching the ships loading and unloading. They'd bring in cargoes from all the distant and romantic ports all over the world. I used to stand there with a faraway look in my eyes, envying those sailors who were so fortunate. They traveled over the distant horizon to places I could only imagine or read about in my geography books. I hung around so much that some of the mates and skippers finally recognized me and actually invite me aboard once in a while. I guess you can imagine the heaven that
Remove the Friction: Earl Nightingale on Serenity and Inner Strength
1mo ago · 3:45
Modern medical research has found that the old adage, "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me," is all wrong. Psychosomatic studies have found that man is hurt far more by names than he is by all the sticks and stones of life. Today, scientists are in agreement that the old biblical admonition is correct when it says, "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that keepeth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." Man feels in competition with people and in conflict with the world about him. His fears, resentments, angers, and so forth come b
Earl Nightingale’s Four Steps to Remembering How to Succeed
1mo ago · 3:47
You know, everything in nature has two sides, a good and a bad, depending upon the point of view. The rain that waters and fertilizes the crops also brings devastating floods. The fire that warms our homes and cooks our meals can cause widespread havoc when out of control. Think for a moment about the good and the bad sides of memory. It's believed that our subconscious minds remember everything that ever happened to us, every sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell, every emotional experience. But our conscious memories are short. It's good that our memories are short. We forget the bad, and th
Why Happiness Follows Achievement: The Joy of Doing Work Well
1mo ago · 3:43
Hello again. I'm going to ask you a very tricky question; however, it's important that you try to answer it the moment I ask it. I'm going to ask you a question that everyone should have given a lot of thought to and can answer immediately and in one sentence, but I might add that it's a question only a few people out of a thousand can answer. At any rate, get ready, and let's see how well you do. Here comes the question: What do you want more than anything else in the world? Time's up. Now, the chances are you answered one of three things: health, wealth, or happiness. Of course, if you happe
Stop Killing Time: Seeing Life’s Beauty Before It’s Too Late
2mo ago · 3:47
Hello. Some time ago I read a story that had a very profound effect on me. With my customary brilliant memory, I can recall neither the name of the book nor the author. Maybe you'll recognize it. Anyway, it was about a young man who was to be hanged for committing some crime. This was way back, the early days. The young man didn't sleep at all during his last night on earth, and dawn found him standing at his cell window from where he could see over the prison walls to the countryside beyond. At the first sign of the beautiful rosy-fingered dawn, as Homer used to call it, a change began in the
Your Most Valuable Tool: Building Vocabulary for Success in Life
2mo ago · 3:46
Hello. Do you know what your most valuable tool is when it comes to getting along with other people and getting what you want from life? Well, it's the most obvious thing in the world, and I suppose one of the most overlooked. It's your ability to use your language. It's a strange and unfortunate thing, but the great majority of folks have just about the same vocabulary as adults as they had in the 8th or 9th grade. They unnecessarily cripple themselves in this most vital aspect of successful living. Words are the tools with which we express our thoughts and desires to others, and the more too
Four Pages a Day: The Hard Work and Rejections That Make a Writer
2mo ago · 3:45
Have you ever thought you might like to become a writer? Here's something a lot of people could do and very successfully, but not very many will and you know why? It's because becoming successful as a writer is just about the hardest work in the world. Outside of writing my own radio programs, I've never done too much of it. I tried to hire writers for my radio programs one time, but it just never worked out. They didn't write things I was interested in. But I guess I had one of the finest writing teachers who ever lived. He was Professor W.S. Campbell, who for so long headed up the writing de
The Confidence Man: Ponzi, Grand Deception, and the Lure of Easy Money
2mo ago · 3:47
I suppose criminal psychology is one of the world's most interesting subjects and, at times, certainly the most terrifying. There's hardly a day goes by when the paper doesn't report some strange, senseless, twisted crime. But the most interesting of all, because of its sheer waste of talent and time, is the story of the Confidence Man. For example, there's a really interesting book published in 1955 by J.P. Lippincott Company called Grand Deception, which is a collection of the world's most spectacular and successful hoaxes, impostures, ruses and frauds, collected and edited by Alexander Klei
Talent Isn’t Enough: Earl Nightingale on Taking Your Gift to Market
3mo ago · 3:45
Some years ago, a man came into my office whom I've never forgotten, and for whom I've never stopped being sorry. I've often thought that there must be thousands of people in the same boat. My secretary had given him an appointment, and he started right off on the wrong foot by arriving 15 minutes late. He then told me a long, sad story. As I remembered, it went something like this. Mr. Nightingale, everyone tells me I have a beautiful singing voice. In fact, they tell me my voice is better than most of the male singers in this country including, and right here he tossed off the names of our h
How Great Service and Fair Prices Can Build a Million-Dollar Business
3mo ago · 3:46
I received a telephone call the other day that really set me to thinking. I was working in my study, and as usual, the phone interrupted my work. I think I was reading the sports page at the time. And a charming female voice asked, Is this Mr. Nightingale? And I said, Yes. And then she said, Mr. Nightingale, Mr. Spelvin can speak to you now. I thought, Well, isn't that nice. This Mr. Spelvin must be a pretty important man. I wonder what he wants to talk to me about. Well, there was a short and impressive delay at the other end of the line, and then a man's voice asked, Mr. Nightingale? Again,
Acres of Diamonds: Russell Conwell on Finding Opportunity Underfoot
3mo ago · 3:48
Hello again. To my mind, one of the most interesting Americans who lived around the turn of the century was a man by the name of Russell Herman Conwell. He was born in 1843 and lived until 1925. He was a lawyer for about 15 years, then became a clergyman. But one day a young man came to him at the church and told him he wanted to get a college education but was in such a fix financially that he just couldn't swing it. Well, Dr. Conwell decided right then and there what his aim in life was. He decided to build a university for poor but deserving youngsters. But he had a problem. He'd need a few
Before You Buy the Dream: The First Rule of Business Success
3mo ago · 3:47
Many years ago, when I was on the air in Chicago, I got a letter from a woman with a problem that must come to someone every day in a week in every town in the country. She wrote that she and her husband were thinking of going into the motel business in Florida, and she wanted my opinion on whether or not I thought the motel business was a good business to go into. She went on to say that her husband was retired and that they'd saved quite a bit of money through the years in addition to their home, which they'd completely paid for, and which would be worth quite a bundle in itself. Well, I tho
What Is Charm? Earl Nightingale on Beauty, Posture, and the Inner Self
3mo ago · 3:50
Well, how are you feeling today? Are you what they call a charming person? I used to wonder what they meant exactly when they referred to someone as being charming. And the other day I had a long talk with, and you can be sure of this, a very charming woman. Her name is Bess Rothman. She's an expert on this business of charm. She's taught it at colleges and traveled all over the country telling men and women how to be charming. She lives in Chicago now and devotes her time to helping people find the type of work they're best fitted for and at the same time improving them as individuals. She to
The 5 Percent: Why Independent Thinkers Rise Above Conformity
4mo ago · 3:48
Thank you and hello again. Here's an interesting question for you. Do you think you're just like 95 percent of the people? Well, you'll probably answer no. Maybe you're not. One of the strangest things about human nature is that every person likes to feel he's an individual, different from every other human being on earth, and it's true. There are literally no two human beings who are exactly alike, but the paradox comes into the picture when you realize that while most people like to think they're different, they then try as hard as they can to be just alike. In the last few years, you've pro
Why Rewards Follow Contribution: Earl Nightingale’s Law of Value
4mo ago · 3:44
I close my last show by saying our rewards in life will always be in direct proportion to our contribution. This is the law that stands as the supporting structure of all economics and our personal well-being as well. The paradox is that most people either don't know about this wonderful rule or think that somehow it's for the other guy. Most people believe we ought to have speed limit signs too, but that they're for other people who don't know how to drive as well as we do. Well, the one nice thing about people is that they're very seriously wrong when they make this generalization. Let's tak
The Greener Pastures Myth: Finding Opportunity Where You Are
4mo ago · 3:46
I was reading the other day about our universe and what we know and don't know about it, about the billions and billions of stars and planets and of the millions of galaxies like our Milky Way, separated by distances so vast it takes light, which travels 186,000 miles per second, about two million years to cross these almost incomprehensible distances. We've got astronomers sitting in front of telescopes looking at stars not as they are now, but as they were 500 million years ago, because that's how long it took their light to reach us, give or take a few years. And I've got a hunch why astron
Your Mind Is a Gold Mine: Find the One Idea That Makes You Rich
4mo ago · 3:51
From time to time you hear somebody say, you know, those people who got in on the ground floor of the opening of the West with its gold and silver really were fortunate. All that gold laying around waiting to be bailed and carried to market. Or you'll hear them say, and what about the early discoverers of our vast oil fields? All those derricks pumping millions of dollars worth of black gold and the folks who discovered it just sitting back and trying to keep their fortunes figured to the nearest million. When I was a youngster back during the Depression of the 30s, we used to sit around and d
Panophobia and Purpose: How Throwing Yourself Into Work Eases Fear
4mo ago · 3:49
You know, the experts are forever coming up with long words meant to describe the problems that we humans are complex enough to develop. And not too long ago they came up with a dandy. They use it to describe the feeling us poor men get, particularly the man who finds a lump like a watermelon with thorns right in the pit of his stomach. The word is panophobia, and it means fear. This is the word that fits the man or woman who seems to have vague, undefined fears. Fears that he can't quite put his finger on. Like the hard-working man who suddenly begins to fear that the company is sharpening th
How The Strangest Secret Became Earl Nightingale's Breakthrough Hit
4mo ago · 3:48
In March of 1956, an amazing thing happened to me. I was retiring from a very busy schedule and had decided to take it easy for a while, and I decided to spend some time in Arizona. Since I'd be away, the manager of one of my little businesses asked me if I would record on tape a message he could play at the next sales meeting. Well, this made sense to me, so I decided to put into a 30-minute talk in capsule form the important things I'd learned during the more than 20 years of research on why men and women succeeded or failed in life that I'd done. Well, I spent quite a bit of time putting th

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Episodes 24

The King Who Pumped Too Much Money: Earl Nightingale on Inflation

Earl Nightingale on Books, Knowledge, and the Idea That Frees You

Attitude Is Everything: Earl Nightingale on Winning at Life and Work

Krakatoa and Mount Pelée: Volcanoes That Shook the World Forever

America’s Hidden Crisis: Illiteracy, Poverty, and Lost Opportunity

Your Next Port of Call: Earl Nightingale on Goals and Direction

Remove the Friction: Earl Nightingale on Serenity and Inner Strength

Earl Nightingale’s Four Steps to Remembering How to Succeed

Why Happiness Follows Achievement: The Joy of Doing Work Well

Stop Killing Time: Seeing Life’s Beauty Before It’s Too Late

Your Most Valuable Tool: Building Vocabulary for Success in Life

Four Pages a Day: The Hard Work and Rejections That Make a Writer

The Confidence Man: Ponzi, Grand Deception, and the Lure of Easy Money

Talent Isn’t Enough: Earl Nightingale on Taking Your Gift to Market

How Great Service and Fair Prices Can Build a Million-Dollar Business

Acres of Diamonds: Russell Conwell on Finding Opportunity Underfoot

Before You Buy the Dream: The First Rule of Business Success

What Is Charm? Earl Nightingale on Beauty, Posture, and the Inner Self

The 5 Percent: Why Independent Thinkers Rise Above Conformity

Why Rewards Follow Contribution: Earl Nightingale’s Law of Value

The Greener Pastures Myth: Finding Opportunity Where You Are

Your Mind Is a Gold Mine: Find the One Idea That Makes You Rich

Panophobia and Purpose: How Throwing Yourself Into Work Eases Fear

How The Strangest Secret Became Earl Nightingale's Breakthrough Hit

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Episodes 24

The King Who Pumped Too Much Money: Earl Nightingale on Inflation

Earl Nightingale on Books, Knowledge, and the Idea That Frees You

Attitude Is Everything: Earl Nightingale on Winning at Life and Work

Krakatoa and Mount Pelée: Volcanoes That Shook the World Forever

America’s Hidden Crisis: Illiteracy, Poverty, and Lost Opportunity

Your Next Port of Call: Earl Nightingale on Goals and Direction

Remove the Friction: Earl Nightingale on Serenity and Inner Strength

Earl Nightingale’s Four Steps to Remembering How to Succeed

Why Happiness Follows Achievement: The Joy of Doing Work Well

Stop Killing Time: Seeing Life’s Beauty Before It’s Too Late

Your Most Valuable Tool: Building Vocabulary for Success in Life

Four Pages a Day: The Hard Work and Rejections That Make a Writer

The Confidence Man: Ponzi, Grand Deception, and the Lure of Easy Money

Talent Isn’t Enough: Earl Nightingale on Taking Your Gift to Market

How Great Service and Fair Prices Can Build a Million-Dollar Business

Acres of Diamonds: Russell Conwell on Finding Opportunity Underfoot

Before You Buy the Dream: The First Rule of Business Success

What Is Charm? Earl Nightingale on Beauty, Posture, and the Inner Self

The 5 Percent: Why Independent Thinkers Rise Above Conformity

Why Rewards Follow Contribution: Earl Nightingale’s Law of Value

The Greener Pastures Myth: Finding Opportunity Where You Are

Your Mind Is a Gold Mine: Find the One Idea That Makes You Rich

Panophobia and Purpose: How Throwing Yourself Into Work Eases Fear

How The Strangest Secret Became Earl Nightingale's Breakthrough Hit