

Not long ago, Albert Schweitzer, the great doctor and Nobel Prize winner was being interviewed in London, and a reporter asked him, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was silent a moment and then he said, “Men simply don’t think,” and it’s about this that I wanted to talk with you. I’d like to tell you about the strangest secret in the world. The Strangest Secret Inspirational Speech – 30 Day Challenge Video Transcript Now I invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy the original, The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale.

As you listen, you will notice how the statistics reflect those of the mid-1950s, you’ll also hear Earl mention the other side of the record, but 40 years later, the message is as true and valuable as it was then. Because of these changes, I believe you will appreciate the historic value of this original recording. The personal development industry is so vast today and yet, people around the world attribute the strangest secret as being the one message that has most positively affected their lives.Įarl revised The Strangest Secret several times over the past 40 years as times changed.

I’m Diana Nightingale, and since my husband’s death in 1989, I have continually looked for new effective ways to continue to share Earl’s many messages of inspiration with the world. His daily radio program, Our Changing World, was the world’s most widely sponsored radio program and was heard daily across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, The Bahamas, Guam, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the Armed Forces radio, and 30 countries overseas. And because Earl had discovered the true meaning of the strangest secret, which determines the outcome of one’s life, he went from poverty to become one of the most highly recognized voices and names throughout the United States, and from the West Indies to South Africa. And this single recording was the seedling from which the entire personal development industry grew. Earl called the message, The Strangest Secret. Much to Earl’s surprise, in very little time without any real advertising or marketing, over a million copies had been sold and he received a gold record. When Earl returned, he learned that the message had made such a positive impact on the men, they wanted copies to share with their friends and family.Įarl arranged with Columbia records to duplicate the record to meet the many requests. It was to be played one Saturday morning to a small group of salesmen during his absence. Many years passed, and when Earl was 35 years old, he wrote and recorded this message.
