The Strangest Secret That Built The Personal Development Industry - And How You Can Use It
What if a single idea could completely transform your life? In this episode, I take you inside an exclusive mastermind room in Chicago—where history was rediscovered, success principles were unlocked, and the secret to separating the top 5% from the...
Watch The Replay Of This Once In A Lifetime Masterming
What if a single idea could completely transform your life? In this episode, I take you inside an exclusive mastermind room in Chicago—where history was rediscovered, success principles were unlocked, and the secret to separating the top 5% from the rest was revealed.
I sat alongside legends like Russell Brunson, Don Green (President of the Napoleon Hill Foundation), and Vic Conant, inside the Nightingale Conant archives, where we uncovered The Strangest Secret—a message that built the foundation of the personal development industry.
This isn’t just another motivational lesson. This is the blueprint for how the most successful people think, act, and achieve at the highest level.
🔥 In this episode, you’ll discover:
✅ Why 95% of people ignore the secret to success
✅ How one gold record launched the personal development industry
✅ Why getting in the right room changes everything
✅ The one thought principle that controls your future
✅ How to rewire your mindset for unstoppable success
🔑 The Key Takeaways:
1️⃣ You become what you think about most of the time.
2️⃣ The greatest breakthroughs in history happened inside rooms of great minds.
3️⃣ Most people hear life-changing advice but never apply it.
4️⃣ The top 5% don’t just consume wisdom—they embody it.
5️⃣ Your environment shapes your success. If you want to level up, get in the right rooms.
🛠️ Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Watch The Replay Of The Once In A Lifetime Masterming
📀 The Strangest Secret – The first spoken-word album to sell over a million copies, recorded by Earl Nightingale. It holds the key to mastering your thoughts for success.
🏛 Nightingale Conant Archives – The vault of personal development history, where forgotten wisdom is stored.
📘 Napoleon Hill Foundation – Dedicated to preserving and expanding upon Napoleon Hill’s legacy in success and personal growth.
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What is up everyone.
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Welcome back to the thinking big podcast, the show where we don't just dream big about growing.
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We take massive action and we make it happen.
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I'm your host, Sean Osborne.
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And today, you know, there are moments in life when you step into a room and you know, you just know that you will never walk out the same.
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And that is exactly what happened to me recently in Chicago, . I found myself sitting in a mastermind group alongside greats like Russell Brunson, Don Green, who's the president of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Bette Conant from Nightingale Conant,
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in 10 other elite minds in the personal development space, but we weren't there just to talk.
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We were about to experience the strangest secret, not just as a recording, but as a moment, a movement, a message that has transformed millions of lives.
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And today I'm bringing you into the room with me.
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And this episode is more than just about a forgotten gold record.
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It's about the power of getting in the right rooms.
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It's about unlocking hidden success principles that only a few ever discover.
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And most of all, it's about understanding the one law.
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The one single law that separates the top 5 percent from everybody else.
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Because here's the truth.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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I want to say it again.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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That's it.
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That's the strangest secret.
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And once you truly understand it, once you feel it, you will never be the same again.
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So buckle up because this episode is going to change the way you think about success forever.
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All right, well, welcome back.
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And there is something about stepping into a room where history was made.
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It's like stepping into a different frequency.
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Where the air is charged with ideas, where conversations are not just small talk, but sparks that can ignite revolutions.
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And that's exactly what I felt when I arrived to Chicago.
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You know, this wasn't just any mastermind.
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It was sitting with some of the biggest names in personal development.
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People who have built empires, shaped industries.
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People who have transformed millions of lives already.
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And the purpose of this gathering is to dig into the archives of Nightingale Conant, the company that basically started it all to uncover something forgotten, you know, to experience a message so powerful, it became the foundation of the personal development industry itself.
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As I walked into the Nightingale Continent Archives, it felt like stepping into a vault of wisdom.
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Stacks of old radio reels, shelves lined with film strips from long lost TV shows, the dust covered boxes that were filled with manuscript ideas and voices that shaped an entire generation.
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And then, in the far corner Russell Sod, the first spoken word album to gold, gold and platinum.
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It was the original gold record from the strangest secret, the first ever spoken word record to sell over a million copies.
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The record that before Tony Robbins, before Jim Rohn, before Zig Ziglar ignited the modern personal development movement.
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This is what started it all.
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You know, I reached out, I held it in my hands and I could almost feel the weight of its impact.
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This was not just another motivational speech.
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This was a blueprint, a formula for success, a message that for decades has been changing lives, but now hidden in the archives, just waiting to be rediscovered.
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It's just sitting there.
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And in that room, surrounded by some of the sharpest minds in the industry, we set in silence as As the needle dropped onto the record and Earl Nightingale's deep resonant voice filled the air, we become what we think about most of the time.
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That's it!
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That's one sentence holds more power than any business strategy, any marketing hack, uh, any success shortcut that you will ever find.
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And here's the crazy thing, most people will hear this and do nothing.
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They will listen to those words, they will nod in agreement, and then they'll go right back to the same habits, the same doubts, the same limitations.
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But the top 5%, they think differently.
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They don't just hear a message like that, they absorb it.
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They internalize it and apply it to every aspect of their lives.
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Because the strangest secret isn't just a phrase.
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It's a law.
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It's the law of success.
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Your thoughts shape your reality.
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What you focus on expands.
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If you think like a failure, you will fail.
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If you think like a winner, you'll become successful and you will win.
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It's inevitable.
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And once you realize this, you can never stop.
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You can never go back to your old ways of thinking.
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Now here's something even more important.
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This experience, this shift in thinking for me wouldn't have happened if I hadn't got in the right rooms.
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Because success doesn't happen in isolation.
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It happens when you immerse yourself in the right environments.
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Think about it.
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The greatest breakthroughs in histories.
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They didn't happen when someone was sitting alone.
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They happened when people came together, exchanged ideas, challenged each other, pushing limits, sharing insights.
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Apple started in a garage mastermind.
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Napoleon Hill's success principles came from masterminding with the wealthiest people in the world at the time.
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Every high achiever, you know, every billionaire, every millionaire, every world changer has surrounded themselves with great minds.
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Because when you get into the right rooms, you start thinking at a higher level.
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And that is why I'm bringing this experience to you.
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What if you could learn exactly how to apply this law to your business, to your finances, to your personal growth, to your relationships.
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That's what we did inside the strangest secret mastermind that we did.
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It isn't just another training.
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What we did.
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This is a chance to experience what we experienced in Chicago.
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And I'm giving you a link to watch what we did.
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You can actually just tap in via fly on the wall and watch what we did to sit in the room with us, to hear the message, the way that it was meant to be heard and to finally apply it in a way that transforms everything for you.
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And if you're ready to make this shift, don't wait.
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If you're ready to think at a higher level, get in the room.
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If you're ready to unlock what the top 5 percent already know, join us now, sit in the room with us,
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click the link in the show notes.
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It is a free ticket to this mastermind that we had just go in and watch it as a replay of it.
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And before we're going to take it down soon, so it won't be up all the time.
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So go watch this, go be a part of this with us.
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So the question is, will you take it or will you just let it pass by?
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You know, the choice is yours.
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This episode was more than just a story.
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It was an invitation because if you've been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain, the answer isn't out there.
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It's already in your mind.
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The only question is, will you take control of it?
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And remember to always think big and I will see you inside this masterclass.