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Actually, the explanations of the "Secret" offered in the movie are a prime example of what Murray Gell-Mann called quantum flapdoodle, i.e. “hijacking the terminology of modern science without understanding the underlying concepts or employing any of the intellectual rigour intrinsic to scientific inquiry”.

But my greatest beef with the movie is the claim that whatever you sit down and imagine, the universe will provide. Almost as if the universe is a big vending machine: Insert sincere wish here, pull out cold coke (or shiny new Ferrari) here.

That seems to me to be a very mechanical, shallow, self-serving description of the universe.

The 'secret' does involve focusing on the prize, but it also involves getting up off your butt and making it happen. When people see that you are making it happen, they will assist you in some way and the more people helping you, the better.