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How Successful People Think: Shared Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Shared Thinker

None of us is as smart as all of us. -Ken Blanchard

How Shared Thinking Can Make You More Successful

Good thinkers, especially those who are also good leaders, understand the power of shared thinking. They know that when they value the thoughts and ideas of others, they receive the compounding results of shared thinking and accomplish more than they ever could on their own.

  1. Shared thinking is faster than solo thinking
  2. Shared thinking is more innovative than solo thinking
  3. Shared thinking brings more maturity than solo thinking
  4. Shared thinking is stronger than solo thinking
  5. Shared thinking returns greater value than solo thinking
  6. Shared thinking is the only way to have great thinking

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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

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How Successful People Think: Reflective Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Reflective Thinker

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -Jules-Henri Poincare

How Reflective Thinking Can Make You More Successful

Most people don’t spend a great deal of time in reflective thinking. Why? Because it doesn’t sound very exciting. Reviewing your mistakes and your problems in a systematic way isn’t appealing to most people. But it can have a great return in your life.

  1. Reflective thinking gives you true perspective
  2. Reflective thinking gives emotional integrity to your thought life
  3. Reflective thinking increases your confidence in decision making
  4. Reflective thinking clarifies the big picture
  5. Reflective thinking takes a good experience and makes it a valuable experience

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Meaning Ring - Be a Possibility Thinker

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done. -Sam Ewing

How Possibility Thinking Can Make You More Successful

People who embrace possibility thinking are capable of accomplishing tasks that seem impossible because they believe in solutions.

  1. Possibility thinking increases your possibilities
  2. Possibility thinking draws opportunities and people to you
  3. Possibility thinking increases others’ possibilities
  4. Possibility thinking allows you to dream big dreams
  5. Possibility thinking makes it possible to rise above average
  6. Possibility thinking gives you energy
  7. Possibility thinking keeps you from giving up

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How Successful People Think: Strategic Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Strategic Thinker

Most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than planning their lives. -Unknown

How Strategic Thinking Can Make You More Successful

Strategic thinking helps a person to plan, become more efficient, maximize strengths, and find the most direct path toward achieving any objective.

  1. Strategic thinking simplifies the difficult
  2. Strategic thinking prompts you to ask the right questions
  3. Strategic thinking prompts customization
  4. Strategic thinking prepares you today for an uncertain tomorrow
  5. Strategic thinking reduces the margin of error
  6. Strategic thinking gives you influence with others

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How Successful People Think: Realistic Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Realistic Thinker

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. -Max De Pree

How Realistic Thinking Can Make You More Successful

  1. Realistic thinking minimizes downside risk
  2. Realistic thinking gives you a target and a game plan
  3. Realistic thinking is a catalyst for change
  4. Realistic thinking provides security
  5. Realistic thinking gives you credibility
  6. Realistic thinking provides a foundation to build on
  7. Realistic thinking is a friend to those in trouble
  8. Realistic thinking brings the dream to fruition

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How Successful People Think: Creative Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Creative Thinker

The joy is in creating, not maintaining. -Vince Lombardi

How Creative Thinking Can Make You More Successful

  1. Creative thinking adds value to everything
  2. Creative thinking compounds
  3. Creative thinking draws people to you and your ideas
  4. Creative thinking helps you learn more
  5. Creative thinking challenges the status quo

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How Successful People Think: Focused Thinking

Meaning Ring - Be a Focused Thinker

He did each thing as if he did nothing else. -Charles Dickens

How Focused Thinking Can Make You More Successful

Just as focus is important in developing products for a company, it is also important in developing ideas for an individual.

  1. Focused thinking harnesses energy toward a desired goal
  2. Focused thinking gives ideas time to develop
  3. Focused thinking brings clarity to the target
  4. Focused thinking will take you to the next level

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