This document summarizes key points from a book about learning from books. It provides tips on how to think positively and successfully. Some of the main ideas discussed include believing in yourself and thinking big, taking action to overcome fear, developing a growth mindset, setting goals and taking action towards them, and thinking like a leader by empowering others. The overall message is that positive thinking, personal development, and continuous self-improvement are essential for success.

1. LEARNING FROM BOOKS
By David J.
Schwartz

2. A wise man will be Master of His Mind
A Fool will be Its Slave
Publius Syrius
*Each slide corresponds to a chapter of the book

3. Believe you can succeed and you will
Success is determined by the size of one’s thinking: people who
think big grow big.
Strong belief triggers the mind to figuring ways and means to
achieve it.
A person is a product of his own thoughts.
 Think success, don’t think failure
 Believe you can succeed and you will
 Remind yourself regularly that you are better than
you think you are
 Believe big: The size of your success is determined
by the size of your belief
 Never sell yourself short

4. Cure yourself of excuses: the failure disease
The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more
important than how much intelligence you may have.
Never underestimate your own intelligence and overestimate
the intelligence of others.
Concentrate on your assets: you attitudes are much more
important than your intelligence
 Don’t sell yourself short.
 Concentrate on developing those qualities in
yourself that will make you a winner.
 Concentrate on your assets.

5. Build confidence and destroy fear
Action cures fear: there an action we can take to beat any kind of
fear.
Isolate your fear. Determine exactly what you are afraid of.
Make a big effort to put only positive thoughts in your memory.
Destroy your negative thoughts before these thoughts become
mental monsters.
To think confidently you have to act confidently
 Take action against fear
 Boost positive thoughts and destroy the negative ones
 Against shyness and low confidence: make eye
contact, walk 25% faster, speak up, smile big
 Act confidently

6. How to think big
Probably the greatest human weakness is self-deprecation- that is,
selling oneself short.
Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization
adds value to everything.
We don’t think in words or phrases, but in pictures and images.
 Imagine yourself big.
 Take distance f problems, difficulties, quarrels… and
ask yourself, is this bringing me closer to my
objective? is this really important?
 Use the big thinker’s vocabulary: words that create
pleasant images such as victory, joy, happiness…
 Practice being a big thinker

7. How to think and dream creatively
Progress is our most important product: is not so much what you
know when you start, is what you learn and to use after what
counts the most!
Big people monopolize the listening; small people monopolize the
talking.
Top success is deserved to the: “I can do it better” kind of person.
Capacity is a state of mind.
 Be progressive in everything you do.
 Ask yourself daily: “How can I do better?”
 Firmly believe it can be done

8. You are what you think you arE
Practicing uplifting self-praise helps us to gain confidence.
You are what you think, think more of yourself and there is
more of you.
Follow the principle: Sell yourself to yourself
Look important: it will help you to think important.
 Give yourself a pep talk several times daily
 Create a self-praise Mantra for yourself
 Think enthusiasm and you will be enthusiastic

9. Manage your environment: Go first
class
To recondition yourself for success is the first step to take.
Being environment-conscious is key: just as a body diet makes
the body, mind diet makes the mind.
Develop a defense against destructive critics; accept negative
advice only as a challenge to prove that you can do it.
 Get plenty of psychological sunshine
 Go first class in everything you do
 Get your advice from successful people

10. Make your attitudes your allies
Grow the attitude “I am activated”: results come in portion of
enthusiasm invested.
In everything you do: Life it up. Enthusiasm shows through in
everything you do and say.
Put service first and money takes care of itself.
Showing appreciation you make people feel good.
 Always give people more than they expect to get
 Put passion in everything you do
 Show appreciation at every opportunity

11. Think right toward people
A basic rule: Success depends on the support of other people.
Successful people follow a plan for liking people.
The person who does the most talking and the person who is
the most successful are rarely the same person.
 Learn to remember names
 Be a comfortable person
 Practice courtesy all the time
 Cultivate the quality of being interesting

12. Get the action habit
Your goal is to make successful action habitual. The more we
practice, the sooner it becomes a habit.
The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all
problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find
solutions to difficulties when he counters them.
The only way to start is to start. Don’t deliberate. Don’t
postpone getting started.
 Got a good idea? Then take action!
 Get the habit of writing down your thoughts and
your goals
 Just start now!

13. How to turn defeat into victory
The difference between success and failure is found in one’s
attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps, discouragements, and
other disappointing situations.
Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solve them as they
arise
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Study setbacks to pave your way to success
Analyze weaknesses and failures and correct them.
Stop blaming luck
Remember, there is a good side in every situation:
find it.
 GET IN GEAR AND GO!

14. Use goals to help you grow
Remember: The important thing is not where you are or where,
but where you want to go.
We must plan to accomplish something.
Having a clear goal in mind and make a map of it will help us to
get there.
 Get a clear fix on where you want to go
 Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard each
task you perform as a step toward your goal.
 Invest in yourself: education, mental power, ideas
boosters…
 Set goals to get things done.

15. HOW TO THINK AS A LEADER
You are not pulled to success, you are lifted by those working
beside and below you.
Trade minds with the people you want to influence, see the
situation from their point of view.
Give other people the kind of treatment you would like to receive
and you will be rewarded.
Your thinking power needs to be addressed, let your mind review
the situation by taking some minutes of solitude every day.
 Think progress, believe progress, push for progress
 Practice praising people
 Take time to confer with yourself
 Seek improvement & excellence in everything you do

16. Think big & ENThusiastic
Set your goals
And TAKE ACTION!