Dr. Wayne Dyer was an American motivational speaker who spent his career getting people to use positive thinking. He taught that humans are eternal spirits, and we ought to see ourselves in this respect.
Dyer spent much of his childhood in an orphanage in Detroit. His father had walked out on the family, leaving his mother with three small children and no way to provide for them. His early life and the hardships of his childhood led him to explore spiritual aspects of the human experience.
After serving in the United States Navy for four years, he went on to earn a degree in counseling from Wayne State University. A Detroit native, Dyer used his degree to help high school students in Detroit and later became a professor of counselors at St. John’s University in New York City.
Dr. Dyer believed that his purpose in life was to help others look at themselves and shift their perspective. He used the events from his personal life as examples to show that he was a self-made man and how he was able to turn his life into a success story. He wanted people to know that regardless of where a person starts, they have the potential to live an extraordinary life.