Earl Nightingale on the Two Types of People Who Succeed (Which One Are You?)

Bob Baker
5 min readJun 8, 2019

According to Earl Nightingale, there are essentially two types of successful people — or two routes to success. In this post I will discuss both types.

If you’re not sure who Earl Nightingale is, please do yourself a favor and seek out his work. He was a pioneer in the field of spoken-word inspiration and personal development.

During his lifetime, he wrote and recorded more than 7,000 radio programs and 250 audio programs.

In 1956, Earl produced “The Strangest Secret,” a bestseller that coined the powerful phrase, “We become what we think about.” In 1960 he co-founded the audio publishing company Nightingale Conant.

I discovered Earl right around the time he died in 1989. Ever since he’s been one of my favorite authors for inspirational audio.

In this post I want to share something he wrote many years ago that still resonates today.

I’m taking the gist of his idea and putting my own spin on it.

If you’re going to be a successful human being, you generally fit into one of two groups. Or, as Earl pointed out, you can also belong to both of…

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Bob Baker

My mission in life is to inspire & empower people through audio affirmations, guided meditations, books, podcasts, music, art, coaching, and improv comedy.