Book Summary Preview : Thinking For A Change

The Value of Good Thinking

Good thinking separates the achievers from the failures. You can improve your circumstance by improving the way you think. Good thinking improves your chances at success, for it is the foundation of progress.

The author cites his father, Melville Maxwell, as an example of someone who understood that good thinking can change a man’s life. Melville started out a pessimist, but once he noticed that all the successful people he knew thought positively about themselves and others, he worked to change his attitude and soon became an optimist.

It is also important to note that a formal education does not guarantee good thinking because sometimes, schools teach people what to think, not how to think.

Good Thinking Produces Good Ideas

If you planted an apple seed, expect a harvest of apples. In the same way, if you sow the seed of good thinking, you will reap a harvest of progress. But the measure of that progress is commensurate to the quality of the thinking that went with it. Poor thinking yields negative progress, average thinking yields no progress, good thinking yields some progress, and great thinking produces great progress.

Good Thinking Increases Potential

By becoming a better thinker, you expand your abilities and potential. However, that potential will depend on the quality of the idea. Did you employ good thinking or great thinking?