The Magic of Thinking Big — David J. Schwartz
Key take aways from the most intriguing book I have read so far..
• Don’t confuse belief with wishful thinking
• After believing I-can-do-it figure out how-can-I-do-it
• Believing you can succeed makes other place confidence in you
• Think doubt and fail, Think victory and succeed
• Fire Mr. Defeat, Use Mr. Triumph all the time
• Never sell yourself short
• Biggest challenge is to make most out of yourself
• Action cures fear
• Hope needs action to win victories
• Deposit good/positive thoughts, withdraw good/positive thoughts
• Do what’s right and keep your confidence, that’s thinking your way to success
• Motions are precursors of emotions
• To think confidently, act confidently
• Managed motions can change emotions
• We do not think in words/phrases. We only think in pictures/images
• To think big we must use words and phrases that produce big positive mental images
• Build castles don’t dig graves
• See what can be. Not just what is
• Public speaking is about knowledge you’re going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it. That’s how you become a good public speaker
• Security is a natural companion of success
• When you believe, your mind find ways to do
• It’s impossible sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you’re right
• Man belongs, where man wants to go
• Don’t have to be smartest guy in the business, be a good sponge, soak in all the ideas
• Be progressive, not regressive
• No perfection means endless room for improvement
• Capacity is a state of mind
• Do what you do better (improve the quality of your output) and do more of what you do (increase the quantity of your output)
• A leader is a decision making human machine. Now to manufacture anything you need raw material (ideas).
• Pay twice as much and half as many (Attire)
• How you think and show up on your job determines how your subordinates are
• Practice uplifting self praise (Sell yourself to yourself)
• Understand people. Master them (Can be done by meeting more)
• Gossips are thought-poison
• Never be penny-wise pound-foolish. Go first class
• You don’t need to know the language to say you’re in love
• How we think shows through in how we act, attitudes are mirrors of the mind, they reflect thinking
• Grow the attitude of I’m Activated, I’m Important, Service First
• Activate enthusiasm in yourself first
• To get enthusiastic, learn more about the thing you are not enthusiastic about (dig-into-it-deeper technique, in everything you do, life it up, Broadcast good news)
• Grow YOU-Are-Important attitude. Of all living creatures, not more than one in ten million is a human being.
• It pays to make little people feel like big people, likewise, it pays to make big people feel bigger
• When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too
• Ask yourself each day, what can I do today to make my partner and family happy
• Money is power to help the unfortunate
• Put service first, money takes care of itself
• You can’t harvest money unless you plant the seeds that grow money. And the seed of money is service
• Success depends on the support of other people
• Think right toward people, and they will like and support you
• Being likeable makes you lighter to lift
• Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely
• The most important person present is the one who’s most active in introducing himself
• Channel P and N (Positive and negative in mind)
• Conversation generosity (let people talk more bout themselves, helps you learn more about them)
• How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
• Excellent ideas are not enough, an only fair idea acted upon is 💯% better than a terrific idea that dies cuz it isn’t followed up
• Activationist does and Passivationist is going to do but doesn’t. (Be Active, ACT)
• The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
• A good idea not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain
• Waiting even makes the experts nervous
• Don’t wait for the spirit to move you, move the spirit yourself
• Use pencil and paper technique for concentration
• Be a crusader, a volunteer (Take initiative)
• Use setbacks to propel you forward
• Defeat is only a state of mind
• When you try to get rich quick, you get broke quick
• Be constructively self-critical
• A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience
• Combine persistence with experimentation. Persistence alone isn’t enough
• Develop greater power to experiment (Tell yourself there IS a way, back off and start afresh)
• Get out of TAR (Things are rough) barrier
• Goals are essential to success as air is to life
• Doesn’t matter where you were or where you are, but where you want to go
• “A man is not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him”
• Desire when harnessed is power
• Successful people have their eyes focussed on a goal, and this provides energy
• Set goals to get things done
• Be obsessed with your goal, it helps your subconscious mind to help tou stay focused
• Secret to long life (naturally) is the desire to do something
• Progress is made one step at a time
• Prepare to take detours in your stride
• “Business is interested in competency, not diplomas” (#1 Invest in education in a way that it cultivates and develops your mind, it is measured by how well one thinks, #2 Invest in idea starters, for e.g. book and magazine or journal a month)
• Reminder: you’re not pulled to high levels of success rather you are lifted there by those working beside and below you
• Expect to be sniped at. It’s a proof you’re growing
• A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave
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