How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

by John C. Maxwell

Gather successful people from all walks of life -- what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life! Gather successful people from all walks of life -- what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!
A Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Successful People Think How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success.

The 11 keys to successful thinking include:

Big-Picture Thinking Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas

Focused Thinking - Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential

Creative Thinking - Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs

Shared Thinking - Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results

Reflective Thinking - Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.

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Hardcover, 127 pages

Published June 1st 2009 by Center Street (first published January 1st 2003)

tags: self help, nonfiction, productivity, audiobook, management, leadership, buisness, personal development, business, psychology

Book Quotes

“Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinking time a high priority. Not only did he say yes, but he told me about what he calls his “thinking schedule.” It helps him to fight the hectic pace of life that discourages intentional thinking. Dan says he sets aside time just to think for half a day every two weeks, for one whole day every month, and for two or three full days every year. Dan explains, “This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar, or you can develop a schedule and method of your own. No matter what you choose to do, go to your thinking place, take paper and pen, and make sure you capture your ideas in writing.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Earlier in my life, I have to admit, I was often guilty of this error. I wanted to take an idea from seed thought to solution before sharing it with anyone, even the people it would most impact. I did this both at work and at home. But over the years, I have learned that you can go much farther with a team than you can go alone.”

― John C. Maxwell

“The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.” —Kevin Myers”

― John C. Maxwell

“We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.” —Donald M. Nelson”

― John C. Maxwell

“greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes today’s success.”

― John C. Maxwell

“The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That’s good because if you’re young you’re still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you’ve wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Paul the Apostle exhorted, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Mark Twain said, “We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it—not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

― John C. Maxwell

“The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result”

― John C. Maxwell

“You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.”

― John C. Maxwell

“The hero is the one with ideas.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.” —DAVID SCHWARTZ”

― John C. Maxwell

“experience alone does not add value to a life. It’s not necessarily experience that is valuable; it’s the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective”

― John C. Maxwell

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” –JAMES ALLEN”

― John C. Maxwell

“Thinking divorced from actions cannot be productive.”

― John C. Maxwell

“Successful people think differently than unsuccessful people.”

― John C. Maxwell

“No matter how much I know (or think I know), I can learn from this situation.”

― John C. Maxwell

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

― John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell (born 1947) is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor who has written more than 50 books, primarily focusing on leadership.

His organizations have trained 2 million leaders worldwide. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and audiences as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League, and ambassadors at the United Nations.

John C. Maxwell was born in Garden City, Michigan. His father, Melvin, was a minister in a local Wesleyan church. Maxwell followed his father into the ministry, completing a Bachelor's degree at Ohio Christian University in 1969, a Master of Divinity degree at Azusa Pacific University, and a Doctor of Ministry degree at Fuller Theological Seminary. Maxwell has received five honorary doctorates of divinity (including ones from the California Graduate School of Theology and Liberty University).
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