Summery The-Magic-of-Thinking
Summery The-Magic-of-Thinking
• Here are two specific things to do to build confidence through efficient management of your memory
bank:
○ Deposit only positive thoughts in your memory bank
Before you go to bed go over in your mind the things you are grateful for
○ Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank
Big thinkers train themselves to see not just what is but what can be
Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualizations adds value to everything. A big thinker
always visualizses what can be done in the future. He isnt stuck with the present.
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Here is how you can develop your powerto see what can be, not just what is. I call these the "practice
adding value" exercises:
1. Practice adding value to things. What can I do to "add value" to this room or this house or this
business?"
2. Practice adding value to people. What can I do to add value to my subordinates? What can I do
to help them become more effective?
3. Practice adding value to yourself. What can I do to make myself more valuable today?
Try this three-stage program to strengthen your creativity through asking and listening:
1. Encourage others to talk.
2. Test your own views in the form of questions. What do you think of this suggestion?
3. Concentrate on what the other person says.
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Drain off your grievances.
8. Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely.
9. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement, or express
sympathy in sorrow or disappointment.
10. Give spiritual strength to people, and they will give genuine affection to you.
The most important person present is the one person most active in introducing himself.
Here are six ways to win friends by exercising just a little initiative:
1. Introduce yourself to others at every possible opportunity--at parties, meetings, on airplanes, at
work, everywhere.
2. Be sure the other person gets your name straight.
3. Be sure you can pronounce the other person's name the way he pronounces it.
4. Write down the other person's name, and be mighty sure you have it spelled correctly; people
have a fetish about the correct spelling of their own names! If possible, get his address and phone
number, also.
5. Drop a personal note or make a phone call to the new friends you feel you want to know better.
This is an important point. Most successful people follow through on new friends with a letter or
a phone call.
6. And last but not least, say pleasant things to strangers. It warms you up and gets you ready for
the task ahead.
No person is all good and no person is all bad. The perfect person just doesn't exist.
The person who does the most talking and the person who is the most succcessful are rarely the same
person.
1. Use the mechanical way to accomplish simple but sometimes unpleasant business and household
chores. Rather than think about the unpleasant features of the task, jump right in and get going without
a lot of deliberation
2. Next, use the mechanical way to create ideas, map out plans, solve problems, and do other work that
requires top mental performance. Rather than wait for the spirit to move you, sit down and move your
spirit
1. Use a pen and paper, provides focus on the problem at hand
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4. What financial support do I want to give my children in their early adult years?
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