How Successful People Think
by John C. Maxwell
A short book of eleven thinking skills: big-picture, focused, creative, realistic, strategic, possibility, reflective, popular (avoiding it), shared, unselfish, bottom-line. It is a quick survey that reminds readers that thinking is a skill to be deliberately practiced.
Read it if…
you want a quick overview of kinds of thinking to cultivate.
Skip it if…
you want depth on any one; each gets a few pages.
Three things you will actually use
- Thinking is a discipline; schedule it.
- Avoid popular thinking; it is usually lazy.
- Reflection turns experience into insight.
Do this first
Schedule thirty minutes of reflective thinking this week with no input.
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