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The Magic of Thinking Big gives you several starting points to develop and strengthen the most important trait of successful people: believing in yourself.
The Magic of Thinking Big gives you several starting points to develop and strengthen the most important trait of successful people: believing in yourself.
Now David presents us with several strategies to improve your self-belief and confidence.
The first is to constantly work on your creative thinking skills. As opposed to just memorizing facts, which will only help you in certain situations, creative thinking will help you solve any kind of problem you will face.
Your brain can assess and adapt to any situation, because it stays flexible.
David suggests 3 things:
Always be open to new ideas. Learn something new whenever you can. Ask yourself “How can I do a better job today?” every day.
For example: It might seem useless to you to learn photoshop if you’re working in a car dealership, but if it’s fun, do it anyway. Adopt the mentality of “Who knows what it might be good for?“. In this case you could easily use your new graphic design skills to create a bunch of awesome Facebook ads that can help you sell a lot more cars.
The second strategy is to shut down the negative voices in your head. With the news reporting mostly on horrifying events and everyone around you only complaining, negative thinking is quite the norm. However, you’ll find nay-sayers are almost always unsuccessful or just average. You can do this by writing down a pep talk that reads like a commercial where you try to sell yourself to yourself. Focus on what makes you different, for example that you’re funny and make people laugh at work all the time. Read it out loud once a day and in quiet whenever you feel a bit down. Chances are you won’t become a success all on your own – usually people around us lift us up in a way. That’s why you should treat everyone you meet with respect. Even if they act crazy, they might just have a bad day. But just like you want to be treated like an important person, so do they. Note: The author suggests to treat everyone like they can make or break your career. Thinking that way causes me anxiety, so I rather adopt Kid President’s philosophy: Treat everyone like it’s their birthday, even if they don’t deserve it. The next piece of advice regards your peers. You’ve probably heard the saying “You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with.” And while you can’t change the people around you, you can change the people around you. So be sure to create an environment of high quality people for yourself and only take advice from the ones that have gone where you…
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