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While the message is clearly important, the way art expresses and encodes what it’s saying is what pulls the trigger. In film, for example, the medium itself may be particularly conducive to tears. The womblike darkness of a theater, dreamily enlarged faces and enveloping fusion of voice, music and story work in potent combination.
Moved to Tears / Probing the Mystery of Art's Emotional Power
sfgate.com
Mulford's 1886 "Law of Success" pretty thoroughly laid down the template for spiritual self-help. He wrote in terms that the genre has never really deviated from, or surpassed:
Your prevailing mood, or frame of mind, has more to do than anything else with your success or failure in any undertaking. The mind is a magnet. It has the power, first of attracting thought, and next of sending that thought out again.... What kind of thought you most charge that magnet (your mind) with, or set it open to receive, it will attract most of that kind to you. If, then, you think, or keep most in mind, the mere thought of determination, hope, cheerfulness, strength, force, power, justice, gentleness, order, and will attract and receive more and more of such precision, you thought elements. These are among the elements of success.
One Simple Idea
Mitch Horowitz
When we asked creative persons what explains their success, one of the most frequent answers—perhaps the most frequent one—was that they were lucky. Being in the right place at the right time is an almost universal explanation.
Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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