The Secret of Life (BBC - Imagine, 2008)

If you have ever come across such inspirational movies as "The Secret" or books like "Think and Grow Rich" and "The Law of Attraction" - this documentary must be pretty interesting for you as it reviews this phenomena from different points of view.

Why are self-help books so popular? What are we looking for? Are we all desperate? Alan Yentob goes in search of self-help.

Starting with a look at the latest self-help phenomenon, The Secret, Alan Yentob sets out to learn from the big hitters in the self-help world: Susan Jeffers, author of the bestselling Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway; David Burns, whose book Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy has sold over 5 million copies, and Anthony Robbins, who fills stadiums with his can-do performances. “Most people see things worse than they are so they never have to try,” says Robbins. “People say to me ‘I’m sceptical’ and I say no you’re not, you’re gutless.”

Robbins has been the personal coach to a raft of celebrities including Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton. At last year’s Wimbledon, Serena Williams, another Robbins follower, was spotted with her own self-help notes: “My good thoughts are powerful. Any negative thoughts are weak. You are number one. You are the best. You will win Wimbledon.”

“But let’s face it, none of us are going to win Wimbledon,” says Yentob. “And anyway, we keep being told it’s not all about winning, so why do we need these books?” “I think we all have pain,” says Amy Jenkins, writer of This Life and a self-help fan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/episode/the_secret_of_life.shtml


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