The Magic of Thinking Big

Introduction to The Magic of Thinking Big

The Magic of Thinking Big?is a powerful, practical, and uplifting book to help get you out of a channel. Building from this, this book can rejuvenate your goals and make powerful you towards success. Most people go through life with small ambitions, small goals, and small thoughts, and they only rise to the size of their dreams. That said, by thinking big, you can start achieving larger goals.

Chapter 1: Believe you can succeed, and you will

The size of your success is limited by the size of your thinking. If you do not believe you can achieve, this will further decrease your chances of success. Small thinking is characterized by searching for reasons for failure rather than ways you can succeed. You want to modernize your mind to have an expanded capacity so you can think superior. It is within this expanded capacity that you can figure out the best actions to take.

Think Success, Don’t Think Failure

When you face a complicated situation, replace your automatic pessimistic thinking with optimistic thoughts. Let success govern your thought processes. Adopting these thoughts will allow you to create plans that produce achievement. in opposition, maintaining negative thoughts will encourage plans that produce malfunction.

Remind Yourself Regularly that You Are Better than You Think You Are

Believe Big

The size of your achievement is determined by the size of your belief. If you want to think of great ideas or ways of doing things, you first have to believe it’s feasible. If you don’t believe that you can be successful, it is unlikely you will think of all the ways to achieve success.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and hope for big success. Crucially, big ideas and big plans are often easier than little ideas.

Chapter 2: Cure Yourself of Excusitis, the Failure Disease

Highly effective people make fewer excuses because they’re continually searching for ways to achieve their goals. Schwartz describes excusitis as the failure disease. It appears in various forms, but the worst types are health excusitis, intelligence excusitis, age excusitis, and luck excusitis

Health Excusitis

?The more you talk about an ailment, even the common cold, the worse it seems to get. Talking about bad health is like putting fertilizer on weeds. On top of that, we don’t get respect and loyalty by being a chronic complainer.

Intelligence Excusitis

Never underestimate your own intelligence. Similarly, never overestimate the intelligence of others. Do not sell yourself short. Concentrate on your assets and discover your talents. Remember, it’s not how big your brain is that matters. Instead, it’s how you use your brain that counts.?

Age Excusitis

Look at your present age positively. Think, “I’m still young,” not “I’m already old.” Practice looking forward to new horizons and gain enthusiasm and a sense of youth.

Luck Excusitis

Accept the law of cause and effect. Take a second look at what appears to be someone’s “good luck.” You will notice that their success actually stems from preparation, planning, and successful thinking. Similarly, you will notice that those with good luck learn and profit from setbacks. Those with bad luck fail to learn from their setbacks.?

Chapter 3: Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

Destroy fearful thoughts associated with actions that can move you towards your goals. You have to make peace with that fear. If you want your fear to go away, simply take action and do something. Action cures fear. Isolate your fear and then take constructive action.

Make a supreme effort to only put positive thoughts in your memory bank. On top of this, refuse to recall unpleasant events or situations. If you can utilize these two approaches, you’ll start to build confidence.

Chapter 4: How to Think Big

To become a gigantic thinker, we must develop a gigantic thinker’s vocabulary. Try to use brilliant and joyful words. For example, words that promise victory, hope, happiness, and pleasure. You should also bundle clear of words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat, and grief. Avoid saying phrases like, “We have failed. There is no point frustrating.” Instead, replace these phrases with more positive ones like, “Let’s keep trying and find a new point of view so we can succeed.”

Stop wasting your time worrying or thinking about insignificant matters. Focus your attention on big objectives.

Chapter 5: How to Think and Dream Creatively

When you believe something can be done, your mind will find ways to do it. Believing a solution will emerge will pave the way for a solution. There is no limit to self-improvement. So, start asking yourself “how” you can do better. Asking yourself this question puts your mind to work to find intelligent and creative answers.?

Schwartz also suggests you aim to improve your asking and listening skills. Effectively asking and listening will help you obtain information essential for reaching sound decisions. Big people monopolize the listening while small people monopolize the talking.?you should associate with people who can help you think of new ideas and new ways of doing things

Chapter 6: You Are What You Think You Are

“Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence:

1. We underestimate our own brainpower.

2. We overestimate the other fellow’s brainpower.” – DAVID SCHWARTZ

Chapter 7: Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

Your mind is a product of your environment. The people you surround yourself with, the clothes you wear, the neighborhood you live in, and the food you eat all have an impact. Your environment changes how you think. Improve your environment to improve how you think.

Chapter 8: Make your Attitudes your Allies (Partners)

Three actions to take to improve your attitude:

1) Dig in deeper. When you find yourself uninterested in something, dig in and learn more about it. This sets off enthusiasm.

?2) Grow the “You are important” attitude. People do more for you when you make them feel important. Remember to show appreciation at every opportunity. Make people feel important and call people by their name.

?3) Grow the “Service First” attitude, and watch money take care of itself. Make it a rule in everything you do: give people more than they expect to get.

Chapter 9: Think Right Toward People

Your success in any endeavor depends on the support and acceptance of other people. You are not going to achieve your goals alone. To gain this support, you have to be likable. Likability is a factor in all aspects of your life, particularly your career. Schwartz describes becoming likable as making yourself lighter to lift. That means you are easy to be around. Practice being the type of person people like. Doing so will win others’ support and put fuel into your success-building program.

Take the initiative in building friendships. Introduce yourself to others at every opportunity. Make sure you remember the other person’s name, and they will remember your name. Drop a personal note to your new acquaintances you want to get to know better.

Accept human differences and limitations. Don’t expect anyone to be perfect. Practice conversation generosity by encouraging others to talk. Let the other person talk to you about their views, opinions, and accomplishments.

Chapter 10: Get the Action Habit

Successful people are Activationists. Activationists are people that have developed the habit of taking action. So, do not wait for conditions to be perfect as they never will be. Instead, expect that you will encounter future obstacles and simply solve them as they arise.?

Chapter 11: How to Turn Defeat into Victory

Shwartz offers five tips to help you turn defeat into victory. These tips are:

1.??Study setbacks to cover your way to success. When you lose, you must learn from this experience. Then, use these lessons to go and win next time.

2.??Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then correct them. This makes you a professional.

3.??Stop blaming luck. Research each setback and find out what went wrong. Remember, blaming luck never got anyone where they wanted to go.

4.??Blend persistence with experimentation. carry on with your goal but don’t beat your head against a wall. Try new approaches and experiment.

5.??Remember, there is a positive side to every situation. Find it to avoid the negative outcomes associated with discouragement.

Chapter 12: Use Goals to Help You Grow

Schwartz offers an 8-step process for effective goal-setting:

1.??Have a clear idea of where you want to go. Create an image of yourself ten years from now.

2.??Write out your ten-year plan. Your life is too important to be left to chance. Plan what you want to accomplish in your work, your home, and your social world.

3.??Surrender yourself to your desires and receive more energy and enthusiasm.

4.??Let your major goal be your autopilot. When you let your goal absorb you, you’ll find yourself making the right decisions to reach your goal without having to think.

5.??Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard each task you perform, regardless of how insignificant it may seem, as a step toward your goal.

6.??Build thirty-day goals. The day-by-day effort pays off.

7.??Take detours in your stride. A detour simply means another route; it should never mean surrendering the goal.

8.??Invest in yourself. Purchase objects that build mental power and efficiency. On top of that, invest in education and idea starters.

Chapter 13: How to Think Like a Leader

Follow Schwartz’s four steps to start thinking like a leader.

1.??Trade minds with the people you want to influence. It’s easy to get others to do what you want them to do if you see things through their eyes.

2.??In everything you do, show that you put other people first. Just give other people the type of treatment you like to receive.

3.??Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress. Subordinates tend to become carbon copies of their leaders. So, make yourself a leader worth copying.

4.??Take time out to yourself and tap into your supreme thinking power. Managed isolation can help release your creative power. Use it to find solutions to personal and business problems. So, spend some time alone daily to think. Use the thinking technique all great leaders use: confer with yourself.

Finally, lead by example in all you do. Think, talk, act, and live the way you want subordinates to act. When you see something that ought to be done, pick up the ball and run with it. Treat every human being as important and always give people more than they expect to get.