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What do I love about: How Successful People Think?
Another masterpiece by John Maxwell. I loved how short and straight to the point this book is
What do I not love about: How Successful People Think?
Nothing
Who should read: How Successful People Think?
For anyone who is fascinated by personal development and needs a reminder on some principles of success
Who should not read: How Successful People Think?
Any personal development skeptic
Notes about How Successful People Think?
- A person who knows how may always have a job but the person who knows why will always be his boss
- Good thinkers solve problems, they never lack ideas that can build an organization, and they always have hope for a better future
- Those who develop the process of good thinking can rule themselves- even while under an oppressive ruler or in other difficult circumstances
- Thinking is hard work; that is why so few do it
- Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, pounds or college degrees or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking. David Schwartz
- He that is everywhere is no where
- You have got to think about big things while you are doing small thinks, so that all the small things go in the right direction
- To acquire the wisdom of big-picture thinking;
- Don’t strive for certainty
- Learn from every experience
- Gain insight from a variety of people
- Give yourself permission to expand your world
- He did each thing as if he did nothing else
- No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist
- Benefits of focused thinking;
- Harnesses energy toward a desired goal
- Gives ideas time to develop
- Brings clarity to target
- Takes you to the next level
- Creativity is intelligence having fun. People admire intelligence and they are always attracted to fun- so the combination is fantastic
- People tend to exaggerate their success and minimize their failures
- Most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than planning their lives
- The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare
- The winners in life think constantly in terms of ‘I can’, ‘I will’ and ‘I am’. Losers on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have done or what they do not do
- Never tell a young person that something cannot be done
- People who believe they can’t, don’t. But if you believe you can, you can!
- Reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes
- The unexamined life is not worth living
- Challenging popular thinking requires a willingness to be unpopular and go outside of the norm. Following the tragedy of Sept 11, 2001, for example, a few people willingly chose to travel by plane. But that was the best time to travel by plane; crowds were down, security was up, and airlines were cutting prices
- As you strive to challenge popular thinking. Spend time with people with different background, education levels, professional experiences, personal interest etc.
- The greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes todays success
- Hurting people hurt people
- We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland
- Few things in life bring greater personal rewards than helping others
- Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it
- If you are successful, it becomes possible for you to leave an inheritance for others
- He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children, who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it, who has always looked for the best in others and give them the best he had, whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benediction.