The Secret
<p><a title="Rhonda Byrne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda_Byrne">Rhonda Byrne</a> told a <i><a title="Newsweek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i> interviewer that her inspiration for creating the 2006 hit film <i><a title="The Secret (2006 film)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(2006_film)">The Secret</a></i> and the subsequent book by the same name, was her exposure to Wattles's <i>The Science of Getting Rich</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NEWSWEEK_16-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Wattles#cite_note-NEWSWEEK-16">[16]</a></sup> Byrne's daughter, Hayley, had given her mother a copy of the Wattles book to help her recover from her breakdown.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Wattles#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> The film itself also references, by re-popularizing the term <i>The Law of Attraction</i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NEWSWEEK_16-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Wattles#cite_note-NEWSWEEK-16">[16]</a></sup> a 1908 book by another New Thought author, <a title="William Walker Atkinson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson">William Walker Atkinson</a>, titled <i>Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World.</i></p>