Christie L. Russell's annotated edition with neuroscience and NLP commentary.

Annotated Edition

The Science of Getting Rich

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Annotated Edition for The Science of Getting Rich

Written under Lesley Christie's pen name Christie L. Russell, this annotated edition adds the neuroscience, NLP, and CBT commentary that places each passage in its modern context - making Wattles's century-old wisdom immediately actionable.

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Who This Is For

You'll get the most from this if…

✓You've read The Science of Getting Rich but are still trading time for money
✓You want to understand why creative thought works neurologically - not just spiritually
✓You're building a business and want to move from scarcity thinking to abundance strategy
✓You've tried visualisation but keep taking frantic, fear-driven action instead of efficient action
✓You want daily practices that shift your nervous system out of competitive threat mode
✓You're drawn to Wattles' systematic approach and want a structured method, not vague inspiration

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Quick-Start Cheat Sheets

The core principles across multiple printable pages.

30-Day Challenge Workbook

Build the teaching into 30 days of structured daily practice.

Habit Tracker & Goal Planner

Track the micro-habits that compound into lasting change.

52-Week Daily Affirmation Calendar

52 weeks of daily affirmations - one for every day from May 2026 to April 2027.

Affirmation Card Deck

52 cards to carry the teaching into every part of your day.

The Toolkit

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About the Work

The Science of Getting Rich - New Thought, 1860-1911

A precise, unapologetic manual for wealth creation through creative thought and systematic action. Wattles argues that there is a science to getting rich - specific principles that, applied consistently, produce results as reliably as physical laws.

The Science Behind It

Wattles' insistence on 'creative thought over competitive thought' maps cleanly onto the neuroscience of abundance vs. scarcity mindset. Chronic competitive or threat-focused thinking keeps the nervous system in sympathetic activation - fight/flight - which literally narrows perception and problem-solving capacity. Creative thought corresponds to the ventral vagal state: safe, open, and generative. His gratitude practice isn't sentiment; it's a nervous system regulation tool that shifts the body out of threat mode and into the state where creative thinking is neurologically possible.