The document discusses the importance of thinking habits, critical thinking, and the role of imagination in fostering creativity and innovation. It emphasizes the need for continuous learning, humility, and the significance of kindness and gratitude in personal growth and interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, it explores the necessity of embracing change and adapting one's mindset for effective functioning in today's fast-paced environment.

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2. A “Thinking Habit”
As humans we can not Not think! Our mind
is always operating either in the foreground,
or the background, at conscious,
subconscious or superconscious mode.
• A Life Style: Thinking habits are formed even when you were young,
and then mastered in adulthood. Education can instill you knowledge, but
can't teach one how to think..
• The Habit with five “C”s: To compare, contrast, connect,
create, choose with confidence! Critical Thinking has more to do with how
you process information, which is a complex mental activity that
encompasses all aspects of one's cognitive styles.
• Culture of Innovation: In a corporate setting with
dysfunctional management, having quiet time to just think could be
uncomfortable for somebody who recognizes the hypocrisy and cognitive
dissonance that bad management creates.

3. The Real Thinking
Thinking is all of it, the process of being
individual and human - it's the inquiry that all
of us are engaged in - “Who am I, what am I
doing here, what is life?”
• Thought Process: There is a lot going on at once that is difficult
to break down into the smaller pieces or be definitive about. "Real" thinking
occurs when you look for internal understanding in order to find a way to
contribute something of value, that is an expression of your understanding
based on your internal review of personal understanding and experience.
• Quieting the Mind: The best way to develop thinking is in
solitude turning within for discovery and asking yourself questions. Thinking
has either physical or nonphysical outcomes. Those outcomes can be
rational, irrational or maybe just neutral.
• Imagination: Imagination is the fountain of thinking and creative
communication is the way to convey your thinking vividly. Our
communication (writing and speaking) serves and expresses our
imagination.

4. The Brain, Mind & Gut
Human needs to be humbled: Who are you?
Are you more than just body and brain? If so,
what's behind the wheel? is it your brain
that's doing the thinking, or is it you?
• The Mind is the Brain in Action:The brain itself is just a
bunch of connections, but the mind is a result of those connections in actions
interacting/relaying information almost simultaneously throughout different
parts of the brain.
• The brain Like CPU, and Mind like Software:
The brain has to do with the matter, like a hardware. The mind has to do with
the flow of energy, like a software, thinking is only a small aspect of
consciousness.
• Three Centers of Intelligence:The brain, the gut, and
the entire body are a receiving and transmitting miracle machine. They are
all aligned as a system that brings clarity, openness, wisdom and an ability
to speak from the heart without judgment to receive information.

5. Thinking “Out of Box”
The "boxes" are the walls in your mind. “Out
of Box” is a metaphor that means to think
differently, unconventionally, or from a new
perspective.
• Throw Conventional Wisdom:"The box" is anything that
the average person would come up with after having spent too little time
being creative. When someone asks you to "think outside the box" - they're
telling you to throw conventional wisdom and pure linear logic out the window
for a while, and to let the creative mind run free for a while.
• Get out of Comfort Zone: More often, the box is your safety
net and your comfort zone. the things are ok and everyone agrees and have
the same or similar thoughts. It's a boring tiny space with very little innovative
thought contained within the box. In fact, everything in the box is easy to turn
stale and stagnant.
• Continuous Learning:Thinking outside of box means you are
at a continuous learning mode. When one leaves outdated thoughts and
standards to seek additional knowledge and experience, they are stepping

6. Critical Thinking
Like quite a few other things, such as
leadership, creativity, etc. Critical Thinking is
both nature and nurtured. It is a crucial
thinking capability for decision making or
problem-solving.
• Stay Focus: You think critically when you begin to focus and
delineate the factors associated with the problem. This requires one to slow
down with the way they think..
• Iterative Processes: Critical Thinking as an iterative process
leads to a series of refinements based on learning and experience: Rather
than "good" or "bad,” Critical Thinking can have potential to be a deeply
creative process as well. Hence, Critical Thinking is situation based and
individual driven.
• Wisdom & Humility Go Hand-in-Hand:The more
you know, the more you know you don’t know and admit unknown unknown.
You become wise when you are humble enough to be aware of and admit
what you don't know and share what you know.

7. A Kindness Mind
Kindness often starts as a thoughtful mind and
deliberate action, but enough of it, and it becomes a
habit.
• Kindness is a Philosophy: Real kindness requires a
thoughtful mind and consistent good behaviors; it’s neither envy nor revenge.
Being thoughtful takes wisdom, and having consistent action requires
commitment.
• Kindness goes with Wisdom:Certainly, you can practice
kindness; however, you cannot really see it curing sociopathy. It's a thoughtful
mind and deliberate action, it requires the person to commit to the action and
consciously consider the result..
• Kindness from Within: You plant an apple seed and you're
not going to get an oak tree. Kindness is exactly the same, it's a seed. Plant
a lot of kindnesses and watch what happens to your experience of the
world. People struggle with the "gap." That is the time it takes for the seed to
germinate and grow.

8. A Happiness Mind
Many perhaps think happiness comes from
the heart: the joyful moment to cheer you up
or the enchanting time to touch your soul.
Happiness, according to psychologists, is a
state of one's mind.
• A State of Mind:Happiness is a state of mind where one hunts for
pastures even in a desert. One of the most people’s missions in life–whether
they realize it or not – is to find meaning.
• Beyond the Mind:You can experience life as a human only
through your senses. And senses are directly connected to mind where the
stimuli are sent. When happiness becomes a state of mind, and then one is
able to let natural emotions arise based on the triggers and handles them to
get back to the happier state, it is becoming normal.
• Path Finding:Building the working environment to encourage
“Thinking” is critical in building the culture of innovation. You use this flow of
happiness from inside to make moments a lot lighter.

9. A Wise Mind
Human needs to be humbled: Who are you?
Are you more than just body and brain? If so,
what's behind the wheel? is it your brain
that's doing the thinking, or is it you?
• The wisdom is the Full Learning Circle:
If knowledge is gained from learning, insight is captured from re-learning, then
wisdom is a full set of learning, unlearning and relearning. Wisdom mainly
consists of having experience and yet knowing when to discard that experience,
when you come across new knowledge - new frontiers to existing knowledge.
• Wisdom is wider, Intelligence is Narrow:
Knowledge tends to be linear, but wisdom in multidimensional. There is a
hidden and growing imbalance in the human mind that results from the
contrasting natures of the progressing intellect and stagnant instincts.
• Wisdom & Humility Go Hand-in-Hand:The more
you know, the more you know you don’t know and admit unknown unknown.
You become wiser when you are humble enough to be aware of and admit
what you don't know and share what you know.

10. A Gratitude Mind
Be grateful to understand others and be understood.
It is the end of the year, but also the time to
recharging and making the New Year's Resolution.
It is not just the time to gain a few pounds but also
doing more PONDERING.
• Grateful for Insight: It is the day to be grateful for insight and
wisdom, which are the invaluable treasures to warm the heart and fresh the
mind at ultimate level, to cure the root cause, not only the symptom of
problems.
• Grateful for Empathy: Sympathy feeds the hunger, and
empathy connects the world. Be grateful to understand others and be
understood.
• Grateful for Empowerment: Growing and empowering
others is the gratitude mind for leaders, and having the ability to grow and
empower other talent people.

11. From Mindset to Mind Flow
A healthy mind is like a running river, keep
flow, keep open, keep cleanse; keep touch,
to prepare for merging into the sea...
• Embrace Change: To embrace change requires a change of
mindset at every level and an understanding that things cannot stay the
same. This is the groundwork that has to be done at all levels prior to
initiating major change.
• Seek Possibilities: It requires that we move from one mind SET
to mind FLOW, from fixed mind to growth mind. What is needed right now is
continuous change and flexibility of our mind, completely away from being set
in a fixed way, to put another way, our mind needs to be continually
sharpened & shaped in order to adapt to the changes.
• Personal Paradigm Shift: Individual mindset or "personal
paradigm,” is related to your functioning as a person - how you think about
yourself and the world. Believe it or not, this is the biggest single contributor
to how you act in a business situation.

12. How to Change Mindset
We live in the era, more often "mainstream"
mindsets are far lagging behind the internet
speed. It must be acknowledged that
changing mindset can be a very long
process, it takes both vision and strategy.
• A mind is like a Parachute: It works best when it’s open.
In order to change anyone’s mindset, the individual must have an open mind.
Some say, "the most expensive thing anyone can own is a closed mind.”
• What Pushes your Button: Each of us generally knows
what will push our buttons, but have you digged into the WHY. The root must
change for the fruit to change. We must change the belief that causes the
thought that creates the emotion, and become a more self-aware and self-
improving person with empathy.
• Wisdom & Humility Go Hand-in-Hand:Because
every person has degrees of both open and closed mindsets in different
contexts. Everyone has the ability to change their mindsets. We are all
works in progress; learning, growing and changing.