| In
this newest addition to his JumpStart series, best-selling
author, coach, and speaker John C. Maxwell offers a 90-day
improvement plan for becoming a more effective thinker. Read
by Chris Sorensen, the audiobook (like the others in the series)
offers a daily quotation followed by a short explanation of
how the quotation applies to the subject. Maxwell then includes
a daily assignment to help readers recognize the type of thinking
they need to master in order to accomplish their goals.
First and foremost, he recommends a place to engage in thought,
a safe thinking place with a comfortable thinking chair where
ideas are free to flow. From that sacred space, Maxwell identifies
eleven kinds of thinking that lead to great ideas. Throughout
the book he defines Big-Picture Thinking, Focused Thinking,
Realistic Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Creative Thinking,
Possibility Thinking, Reflective Thinking, Shared Thinking,
Uncommon Thinking, Unselfish Thinking, and Bottom-Line Thinking
as methods of achieving what we want in life.
His stated goal is to help readers learn how to think, not
what to think, and he does this successfully. Derived from
content originally published in his book, Thinking for a Change,
this audiobook provides a helpful three-month plan to improve
thinking skills with as little as 15 minutes a day devoted
to thinking about how we think. We all have the potential
to become better thinkers, he writes, but like most areas
in life, we need to do it intentionally to produce the best
results.
Maxwell also identifies three kinds of thinkers: those concerned
with survival, maintenance, and progress. The lowest form
of thinking is merely surviving from one day to the next,
or even one moment to the next, as in the cases of severe
poverty, disease, or mental illness. Everyday routine thinkers
(into which the majority of thinking falls) process daily
activities and responsibilities without much thought outside
these boundaries. A progress thinker, who practices intentional
thinking, looks well beyond mere daily maintenance to solving
difficult problems, creating new ideas, and implementing change.
As in his other books in the JumpStart series, Maxwell focuses
minimal attention on himself and his family (only briefly
mentioning how he and his father use intentional thinking),
and offers readers practical advice to becoming better thinkers.
He provides interesting examples of Walmart and the Girl Scouts
of the USA as thoughts turned into successful actions that
have changed the world. Readers seeking an enlightened perspective
on the process of thinking should find much to ponder in this
latest book.
Reviews
of other titles byJohn C Maxwell
Thinking
for a Change [audio]
There’s
No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics [audio]
Today
Matters
Running
With Giants [audio]
How
Successful People Think [audio]
Intentional
Living – John Maxwell [audio]
JumpStart
Your Leadership [audio]
JumpStart
Your Growth [audio]
JumpStart
Your Thinking [audio]
JumpStart
Your Priorities [audio]
The
15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
[audio]
The
Power of Significance [audio]
|
| Reviewer
Leslie C. Halpern is the author of Passionate About
Their Work: 151 Celebrities, Artists, and Experts on Creativity,
Rub, Scrub, Clean the Tub: Funny Children's Poems About
Self-Image, and Shakes, Cakes, Frosted Flakes: Funny
Children's Poems About Table Manners. |
