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How Successful People Think: Unpopular Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be an Unpopular Thinker

I’m not an answering machine, I’m a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how can we’re in such a mess? -Douglas Cardinal

How Questioning Popular Thinking Can Make You More Successful

  1. Popular thinking sometimes means not thinking
  2. Popular thinking offers false hope
  3. Popular thinking is slow to embrace change
  4. Popular thinking brings only average results

How to Become a Questioning Thinker

  1. Think before you follow
  2. Appreciate thinking that is different from your own
  3. Continually question your own thinking
  4. Try new things in new ways
  5. Get used to being uncomfortable

Question Popular Thinking Action Plan

  1. Get uncomfortable
  2. Learn from others outside of your expertise
  3. Shake things up at work
  4. Make changes at home

* Source: How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell

{ 2 comments… add one }
  • IyinyeOluwa Babalola 2021/12/28, 19:19

    How Successful People Think is a great book just some part is not understandable for a child.

  • IyinyeOluwa Babalola 2021/12/28, 19:21

    How Successful People Think is a great book, Possibility Thinking inspired me the most.
    Most times I lose hope or I am negative but now I will try as much as possible to believe anything is possible.

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