book review

2. The MAGIC of
THINKING BIG

4. About The Author
President of Creative Educational
Services.
American motivational writer and coach,
best known for authoring The Magic of
Thinking Big in 1959.
 Professor at Georgia State University,
Atlanta.

5. OUTLINE
1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease
3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
4. How to Think Big
5. How to Think and Dream Creatively
6. You Are What You Think You Are
7. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class
8. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
9. Think Right Toward People
10. Get the Action Habit
11. How to Turn Defeat Into Victory
12. Use Goals to Help You Grow
13. How to Think Like a Leader

6. Manage Your Environment:
Go First Class
1.Those who surrendered completely:1.Those who surrendered completely:
- they go to great lengths to rationalize their status
- explain how “happy”explain how “happy” they really are
2.Those who surrendered partially:2.Those who surrendered partially:
- includes many talented, intelligent people
- elect to crawl through life because they are
afraid to stand up and run.stand up and run.

7. Manage Your Environment:
Go First Class
3.Those who never surrender.3.Those who never surrender.
- Seeking advice from a failure is like consulting a quack on how to cure
cancer.
What happens on weekends and between 6pm and 9am directly affects a
person’s performance from 9am to 6pm.

8. Manage Your Environment:
Go First Class
3.Those who never surrender.3.Those who never surrender.
• Go first class: that is an excellent rule to follow in everything you do
• Go first class in everything you do. You can’t afford to go any other way.

9. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class
•Develop a defense against people who
want to convince you that you can’t do it.
•Be in the flock that thinks right.

10. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class
•Don’t let negative thinkers pull you down to
their level.
•Cling to the people who think progressively.

11. • Circulate in new groups and enlarge your social orbit.Circulate in new groups and enlarge your social orbit.
• Selecting friends who have views different fromSelecting friends who have views different from
yours.yours.
• Selecting friends who stand above petty, unimportantSelecting friends who stand above petty, unimportant
things.things.

12. Throw thought poison
out of your
environment.
Avoid gossip.
Talk about people, but
stay on the positive
side.

13. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
Grow the attitudes of:Grow the attitudes of:
• I am activated.I am activated.
• I am important.I am important.
• Service first.Service first.

14. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
• To activate others, to get them to be enthusiastic, you must first be
enthusiastic yourself.
• Use the dig-into-it-deeper technique to develop enthusiasm toward other
people.
• To get enthusiasm about anything – people, places, things – dig into it
deeper.

15. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
Ask yourself every day, “What can I do today to make my wife and family
happy?”
“Put service first” is an attitude that creates wealth. Put service first, and
money takes care of itself.

16. Think Right Toward People
• Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle
between you and what you want to be is the support of others.
• A person is not pulled up to a higher-level job. Rather he is lifted up.
• Successful people follow a plan for liking people. Do you?

17. Think Right Toward People
The person who does the most talking and the person who is the most
successful are rarely the same person.
• Practice conversation generosity.
• Don’t be a conversation hog. Listen, win friends, and learn.

18. Think right toward people
 Learn to remember names
 Be a comfortable person
 Practice courtesy all the time
 Cultivate the quality of being interesting

19. Think Right Toward People
• It’s a mark of real leadership to take the lead in getting to knowIt’s a mark of real leadership to take the lead in getting to know
people.people.
• The most important person present is the one person most active inThe most important person present is the one person most active in
introducing himself.introducing himself.

20. Get the Action Habit
• Destroy fear through action.Destroy fear through action.
• The only way to start is to start. Don’t deliberate. Don’t postponeThe only way to start is to start. Don’t deliberate. Don’t postpone
getting started.getting started.

21. Get the Action Habit
• People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit toPeople who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to
move them; they move the spirit.move them; they move the spirit.
• When you see something that you believe ought to be done, pickWhen you see something that you believe ought to be done, pick
up the ball and run.up the ball and run.

22. 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.

23. How to turn Defeat Into Victory
• Defeat is Nothing More Than a State of MindDefeat is Nothing More Than a State of Mind
• Salvage Something from Every SetbackSalvage Something from Every Setback

24. How to turn defeat into victory
The difference between success and failure is foundThe difference between success and failure is found
in one’s attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps,in one’s attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps,
discouragements, and other disappointing situations.discouragements, and other disappointing situations.
Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solveExpect future obstacles and difficulties and solve
them as they arise.them as they arise.

25. How to turn defeat into victory
 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!

26. How to turn Defeat Into Victory
• Use the Force of Constructive Self-Criticism
• Achieve Positive Results through Persistence and Experimentation
• Whip Discouragement by Finding the Good Side to Every Situation

27. Use Goals to Help You Grow
• Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental powerInvest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power
and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.
• Get a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go in LifeGet a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go in Life

28. 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.

29. Use goals to help you grow
 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…

30. Use Goals to Help You Grow
• Multiply Your Energy by Setting Definite GoalsMultiply Your Energy by Setting Definite Goals
• Set Goals That will Help You Get Things Done and Live LongerSet Goals That will Help You Get Things Done and Live Longer

31. How to Think Like A Leader
4 Rules of Leadership:4 Rules of Leadership:
1.1. Trade minds with the people you want to influenceTrade minds with the people you want to influence
2.2. Think: what is the human way to handle this?Think: what is the human way to handle this?
3.3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress.Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress.
4.4. Take time out to confer with yourself.Take time out to confer with yourself.

32. How to Think Like A Leader
• Achieving high-level success requires the support and theAchieving high-level success requires the support and the
cooperation of others.cooperation of others.

33. How to Think Like A Leader
Ask yourself:Ask yourself:
• ““What kind of world would this world be, If everyone in itWhat kind of world would this world be, If everyone in it
were just like me?”were just like me?”
• ““What kind of company would this company be, If everyoneWhat kind of company would this company be, If everyone
in it were just like me?”in it were just like me?”

34. HOW TO THINK AS A LEADER
You are not pulled to success, you are lifted by those
working beside and below you.
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.

35. OUTLINE
1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease
3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
4. How to Think Big
5. How to Think and Dream Creatively
6. You Are What You Think You Are
7. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class
8. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies
9. Think Right Toward People
10. Get the Action Habit
11. How to Turn Defeat Into Victory
12. Use Goals to Help You Grow
13. How to Think Like a Leader

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