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Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989) was an acclaimed broadcaster, a highly successful entrepreneur, and co-founder (with Lloyd Conant) of the Nightingale-Conant

Corporation, one of the world's largest producers and publishers of personal development and self-help audio programs.

Born into poor California family in 1921, on the eve of the Depression, Earl Nightingale was no stranger to overcoming obstacles and conquering difficulties;

and he had a unique gift for inspiring others around him to do the same. From the time he was a young boy, Earl was hungry for knowledge. He would frequent

the Long Beach Public Library in California, searching for the answer to the question, How can a person, starting from scratch, who has no particular

advantage in the world, reach the goals that he feels are important to him, and by so doing, make a major contribution to others? His desire to find an

answer, coupled with his natural curiosity about the world and its workings spurred him to a lifelong study of success and what makes people successful.

Earl Nightingale's early career began when, as a member of the Marine Corps, he volunteered to work at a local radio station as an announcer. The Marines

also gave him a chance to travel, although he only got as far as Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Earl was one of only 12 men to

survive the bombing of the battleship U.S.S. Arizona. After five more years in the service, he moved first to Phoenix then Chicago to build what was to be a

very fruitful career in network radio.

As the host of his own daily commentary program on WGN in Chicago, Earl arranged a deal that also gave him a commission on his own advertising sales. By

1957, he was so successful, he decided to retire at the age of 35. In the meantime, Earl had bought his own insurance company and had spent many hours

motivating its sales force to greater accomplishments. When he decided to go on vacation for an extended period of time, his sales manager asked him to put

his inspirational words on record. The result later became the recording entitled The Strangest Secret, the first spoken word message to win a Gold Record by

selling over a million copies.

In The Strangest Secret, Earl had found an answer to the question that had inspired him as a youth and, in turn, found a way to leave a lasting legacy for

others About this time, Earl met a successful businessman by the name of Lloyd Conant and together they began an electronic publishing company, the

Nightingale-Conant Corporation, which eventually grew to become a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field that thrives to this day. They

also developed a syndicated, 5-minute daily radio program, Our Changing World, which became the longest-running, most widely syndicated show in radio.
When Earl Nightingale died on March 28, 1989, Paul Harvey broke the news to the country on his radio program with the words, The sonorous voice of the

nightingale was stilled. In the words of his good friend and commercial announcer, Steve King, Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn

something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

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does anyone know where i can get the full version of this one???

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PURE MAGIC,

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