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The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Swchartz

The document provides a summary of key concepts from the book "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz. It discusses 15 topics on developing a powerful belief in oneself such as curing "excusitis", thinking big, thinking creatively, managing your environment, making your attitudes your allies, thinking like a leader, turning defeat into victory, using goals to help you grow, thinking right toward people, getting the action habit, and being what you think you are. The document also provides references and information about the author of the book.

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By David J. Schwartz
Content • Believe You Can and You Will • Cure Yourself of Excusitis • Build Confidence and Destroy Fear • How to Think Big • How to Think and Dream Creatively • You Are What You Think You Are • Manage Your Environments: Go First Class • Make Your Attitudes Your Allies • Think Right Toward People • Get The Action Habit • How to Turn Defeat Into Victory • Use Goals to Help You Grow • How to Think Like A Leader
and really believe you can and you will
Do you think YOU can move a mountain? Believe…really believe… you can move a mountain and… YOU can!
Don’t worship celebrities and leaders Respect them Learn from them Study them Believe you can surpass them
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are How to develop power of belief?
How to cure Exusitis?
3 Types of Excusitis
How to cure age Excusitis? • Look at your present age positively • Compute the productive time you still have • Invest future time in doing what you really want to do
How to cure health Excusitis? Refuse to worry about your health Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as it is It’s better to wear out than rust out
How to cure intelligence Excusitis? •Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others • My attitudes are more important than my intelligence • The ability to think is of much greater value than the ability to memorize facts
How to build confidence destroy
Isolate your fear Pin it down. Determine exactly what you are afraid of Take Action There is some kind of action for any kind of fear Be decisive Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear How to cure fear and win confidence?
Lack of self confidence?? Efficiently manage your memory bank • Deposit only positive thoughts • Withdraw only positive thoughts Fear of other people?? • Get a balanced view of the other fellow. • Develop an understanding attitude
Managed motions can change emotions Confident action produces confident thinking. Below are 5 confidence building exercises: 1) Be a front seater 2) Practise making eye contact 3) Walk 25 percent faster 4) Practise speaking up 5) Smile Big
How to
22 year olds are concerned about retirement plans SUCCESS IS DETERMINED BY HOW BIG WE THINK
The greatest human weakness is self-depreciation Philosophers say, KNOW THYSELF People interpret it as know only thy negative self
#1. Determine your five chief assets You will outrank many in at least one asset #2. Under each asset, name 3 people who have achieved large success but who do not have this asset to as great degree as you How to measure your true value?
I am sorry that we have failed. To think BIG, we must use words and phrases which produce big, positive mental images Here’s a new approach that I think will work!
SEE WHAT CAN BE, NOT JUST WHAT IS! What determines how much you are worth? Don’t let what you have not got to stop you!
Practise Adding Value 1. TO THINGS 2. TO PEOPLE 3. TO YOURSELF BIG THINKERS SEE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF A TEAM EFFORT, AS WINNING OR LOSING WITH THE TEAM, NOT BY THEMSELVES
Don’t let petty, insignificant things block your way to achievement Grow big by thinking big
How to think and dream Creatively?
OR Polio vaccine? OR writing a novel? Experiment to discover electricity? What do you call creative thinking?
Then, chances are you are thinking WRONG!!
It is much more than all this
How to develop and strengthen it? 1. Believe it can be done 2. Be receptive to new ideas
3. Ask yourself, "How can I do better?" 4. Ask yourself, "How can I do more? There is no limit to self-improvement Capacity is a state of mind
5. Ask and listen 6. Stretch your mind
Mix with people of different occupational and social interests
YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!! 1. Look important It helps you think important Your appearance talks to others 2. Think your work is important Your subordinates will think their work is important too
3. Build a "sell yourself-to-yourself" commercial Remind yourself at every opportunity that you're a first-class person 4. Ask yourself "Is this the way an important person thinks?" Then obey the answer
Manage your environment because it is food for your mind
Make your environment work for you, not against you!! Don’t let suppressive forces the negative you–can’t–do–it people – make you think defeat
Make It A Rule To Seek Advice From People Who Know
Get Plenty Of Psychological Sunshine Circulate in new groups Friends with different views Guard your psychological environment Friends who stand above petty, unimportant things
Throw Thought – Poison Out Of Your Environment
You can’t afford to go any other way
Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude 1.
Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude 2. Act Alive!!
Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude 3.
Grow The “You Are Important” Attitude
Grow The “Service First” Attitude Give People more than they expect to get
How to think right toward people?
1. Practice being kind of person people like Make yourself lighter to lift…
Be proactive…
3. Accept human differences & limitations Everyone of us is unique…
4. Find qualities to like in a person, not things to dislike Think positive…
5. Practice conversation generosity Encourage others to talk…
7. Don’t blame others for your failures How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win..
How to inculcate the habit of ACTION?
2. Don't wait until conditions are perfect
3. Ideas alone won't bring success They have value only when you act upon them…
4. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence
5. Start your mental engine mechanically Don't wait for the spirit to move you.
6. Think in terms of now Tomorrow never comes
7. Don't waste time getting ready to act
8. Seize the initiative Chances wait for none.
How to turn defeat into victory?
1. Study setbacks to pave your way to success
Find your weaknesses & faults and correct them.
3. Stop blaming luck Find out what went wrong
4. Experiment Be persistent.
5. Have Faith Everything has a good side
1. Be clear where you want to go
Your life is too important to be left to chance…
Set goals to get more energy
4. Let your major goal be your automatic pilot
A detour simply means another route…
7. Invest in yourself Purchase those things that build mental power and efficiency.
1. Trade minds with the people you want to influence It is a magic way to get others act the way you want them to act
2. Apply the "Be-Human" rule in your dealings with others Give others the kind of treatment you like to receive.
3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress Think improvement in everything you do.
4. Take time out to confer with yourself and tap your supreme thinking power
References • Magic of thinking big by David J. Schwartz • https://www.flickr.com/ • www.startv.com • www.images.google.com
Prof. Sameer Mathur Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Marketing Professor: August 2013 – Present McGill University Marketing Professor: July 2009 – July 2013 Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. in Marketing : August 2003 – June 2009 G