PRACTICAL IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES FOR THINKING BIG

Bulleted Takeaways from David Schwartz’s book, “The Magic of Thinking Big”

PRACTICAL IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES FOR THINKING BIG

• Win success by believing you can.

• Feed every thought that you know you can get it done.
• If you don’t believe you can get it done, you won’t.

• Defeat disbelief and the negative power it creates.

• Those who believe they can move mountains do. Those who believe they can’t, won’t.
• Belief triggers the power to do.

• Vaccinate yourself against excusitis, the failure disease.

• There is always an excuse to be had.
• Give in to excusitis only if you are looking for a reason to blame poor results.
• An honest assessment is not only refreshing but, it is critical to success.

• Discover why your thinking power is more important than mere intelligence.

• The thinking that guides your intelligence is more important than how much intelligence you may have.

• Use the action technique to cure fear and build confidence. (Action cures fear!)

• Add value to things, people, and yourself.

• Look for ideas to make things more valuable.
• Add value to your subordinates and bring them up.
• Make yourself more valuable daily.

• Fight mind-freezing traditional thinking.

• Average people resent progress.
• There is no one best way to do any one thing.
• If we let tradition freeze in our brains, there will be no room for new ideas to sprout.
• A traditional minded person laughs at a new idea out of hand without asking for more information.

• Upgrade your thinking. Think like important people think.

• Upgrading your thinking upgrades your actions which leads to success.

• Prevent small people from holding you back.

• People who tell you it cannot be done are almost always unsuccessful people, strictly average, or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment.
• Beware: Their opinions may be poisonous.

• Become more likeable by making yourself “lighter to lift.”

• Make it easier to be promoted by being an enjoyable person to be around.

• Win friends by practicing conversation generosity.

• The person who does the most talking and the person who is the most successful is rarely the same person.

• Discover that defeat is nothing more than a state of mind.

• Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress.

• Think improvement and high standards in everything you do.