I've found there's a dark connection between the positive thinking movement and multilevel marketing. Virtually all of the "teachers" mentioned in The Secret, f

I've found there's a dark connection between the positive thinking movement and multilevel marketing. Virtually all of the "teachers" mentioned in The Secret, for instance, serve on the MLM motivational-speaking circuit, and those who don't have side scams of their own. Motivational speaking as a thing fizzled out except among MLMs, as people realized that the only honest motivational speaker was Chris Farley's character Matt Foley, and the motivational message did not result in the expected productivity gains among legit companies. But for keeping suckers in a pyramid scheme they are effective, because those people have already proven willing to delude themselves into believing in something that won't materialize.