review of the book

2. There is magic in thinking BIG. But it is so easy toThere is magic in thinking BIG. But it is so easy to
forget..forget..
So here is a quick recap.So here is a quick recap.

3. Think BIG: When little
people try to drive you down.

4. Think BIG: When that “I-Haven’t-Got-Think BIG: When that “I-Haven’t-Got-
What-It-Takes” feeling creeps up onWhat-It-Takes” feeling creeps up on
you.you.

5. Think BIG: When an
argument or quarrel
seems inevitable.

6. Think BIG: When youThink BIG: When you
feel defeated.feel defeated.

7. Think BIG: When
romance starts to slip.

8. TThink BIG: When you feel progress onhink BIG: When you feel progress on
your job is slowing down.your job is slowing down.

9. The MAGIC of
THINKING BIG

11. About The Author
Born on 23rd
March 1927.
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.
Died on 6th
December 1987.

12. Target AudienceTarget Audience
• Professionals who need constant motivation.
• Business, Healthcare, Military.
• Students & Novice Workers.

13. Strengths
• Inspirational & Encouraging.
• Research based.
• Example based.

14. Fulfilling the purpose
• Inspiring individual toward a better
life.
• Easy to read.

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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

16. BELIEVE YOU CAN
SUCCEED AND YOU
WILL
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17. Believe In “I”
 Success does not require a super-
intellect.
 Success isn’t based on luck.

18. 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.

19. Believe you can succeed and you will
 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.

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Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
• Defeat Disbelief and the
Negative Power It Creates

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Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
• Make Your Mind Produce Positive
Thoughts

22. “But You’ve Got to Have Brains to Succeed.”
 Never underestimate your own intelligence, and
never overestimate the intelligence of others
 My attitudes are more important
 Use your mind to create and develop ideas, to
find new and better ways to do things

23. CURE YOURSELF OF
EXCUSITIS, THE
FAILURE DISEASE
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24. CURE YOURSELF OF EXCUSITIS, THE
FAILURE DISEASE
“But My Health Isn’t Good.”
Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as it is.
Remind yourself often, “It’s better to wear out than rust out”.

25. “It’s No Use. I’m Too Old (or Too
Young).”
 Think, “I’m still young,” not “I’m already old”.
 Compute productive time you have left.
 Life is actually longer than most people think!
 Invest future time in doing what you really want to do.
 Instead think, “I’m going to start now, my best years are ahead
of me”

26. “But My Case Is Different; I Attract Bad Luck
 Accept the law of cause and effect.
 Not luck but preparation, planning, and success-
producing thinking preceded his good fortune.
 Don’t be a wishful thinker.
 Don’t waste your mental muscles dreaming of an
effortless way to win success.

27. “But My Case Is Different; I Attract Bad Luck
 Don’t count on luck for promotions, victories, the
good things in life.
 Luck simply isn’t designed to deliver these good
things.

28. Cure yourself of excuses: the failure disease
The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more
important than how much intelligence you may have.

29. Cure yourself of excuses: the failure disease
 Don’t sell yourself short.
 Concentrate on developing those qualities in
yourself that will make you a winner.
 Concentrate on your assets.

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• Vaccinate Yourself Against Excusitis, the Failure Disease
• Learn the Secret That Lies in Your Attitude Towards Health
Cure Yourself of Excusitis,
The Failure Disease

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• Use Your Mind for Thinking – Not Simply as a Warehouse for Facts
• Conquer Luck Excusitis and Attract Good Luck to you.
Cure Yourself of Excusitis,
The Failure Disease

32. BUILD
CONFIDENCE
AND DESTROY
FEAR
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33. Is it “only in your mind” ?
 “Most fear is psychological.”
 “Worry, tension, embarrassment, panic all
stem from mismanaged, negative
imagination.”
 The old saying “it’s only in your mind”
seems to be saying that fear isn’t real, but
fear is real and it can do a lot of damage.

34. Fear: Success enemy #1:
This chapter is all about how you can build your confidence and destroy
fear before fear robs you of potential for success in your life.
Fear can:
stop people from capitalizing on opportunity
close your mouth when you want to speak
wear down physical vitality
make people sick
shorten the life span
Fear prevents people from getting what they want and deserve.

35. So How Do You Destroy Fear?
 You build and develop your confidence to destroy fear.
 Story about how the navy, during World War II:
• Non-swimming recruits were placed in swimming classes
• Recruits to jump off a diving board into 8 feet of water.
• In some cases, the recruits were pushed off the diving board.

36. So How Do You Destroy Fear?
““The result: fearThe result: fear
defeated. Action cures fear.”defeated. Action cures fear.”

37. How to Build Confidence:
1. Deposit only positive thoughts in your memory bank.
2. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank.
3. Do what is right.

38. Build confidence and destroy fear
Isolate your fear.Isolate your fear.
Determine exactly what you are afraid of.Determine exactly what you are afraid of.
Destroy your negative thoughts before these thoughtsDestroy your negative thoughts before these thoughts
become mental monsters.become mental monsters.
To think confidently you have to act confidently.To think confidently you have to act confidently.

39. To Think Confidently, Act Confidently
Be a front seater.
Practice making eye contact.
Walk 25 percent faster.
Practice speaking up.
Smile Big.

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Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
• Use the Action Technique to Cure Fear and Build Confidence
• Manage your Memory so as to Increase Your Store of Confidence
• Overcome Your Fear of Other People

41. “To Think Confidently, Act
Confidently”

42. HOW TO THINK
BIG
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43. Ask yourself, “What is my greatest weakness?”.
Probably the greatest is Self-depreciation.

44. Exercise to measure your true size
 Determine your 5 chief assets. Invite an objective friend or an
intelligent person who will give you an honest opinion.
 Next, under each asset, write the name of three persons you
know who have achieved large success but who do not have
this asset to as great a s degree as you.

45. When you are done with this exercise, you will find you have
outranked many successful people on at least one asset.
There is only one conclusionThere is only one conclusion
that you are bigger than youthat you are bigger than you
think.think.

46. Where success is concerned, people are not measured in pounds,
college degrees, or family background; they are always measured
by the size of their thinking.

47. Misconception about thinking big!
we think only in pictures/images.
If you convey a group of people that, “I’m sorry to report we have
failed”. Now people only see defeat and disappointment that the
word, “failed” conveys.
Instead if you would have conveyed that, “Here’s a new approach
that I think will work.”, they would feel encouraged, and be ready
to try again.

48. Misconception about thinking big!
we think only in pictures/images.
If you convey a group of people that, “I’m sorry to report we have
failed”. Now people only see defeat and disappointment that the
word, “failed” conveys.
Instead if you would have conveyed that, “Here’s a new approach
that I think will work.”, they would feel encouraged, and be ready
to try again.

49. 4 ways to develop big thinker’s vocabulary
 Use big, positive, cheerful words and phrases to describe how
you feel.
 Use bright, cheerful, favorable words and phrases to describe
other people.
 Use positive language to encourage others.
 Use positive words to outline plans to others.

50. Develop your power to see what can be, not just
what is
 Practice adding value to things.
 Practice adding value to people.
 Practice adding value to yourself.

51. Method to curb quarrels?
Most importantly,
Before complaining or reprimanding someone, just ask yourself,
“Is it really important?”.
In most cases, it isn't and you avoid conflict.

52. Procedures to help yourself think about
trivialities:
 Don't fall into the triviality trap.
 In making speeches, solving problems, counseling employees,
think of those things that really matter, things that make the
difference.

53. Remember! It pays in every way to think big!
 Use words that promise victory; hope, happiness, pleasure.
 Avoid words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat &
grief.
 Stretch your vision: See what can be, not just what is.

55. Remember! It pays in every way to think big!
 Get the big view of your job.
 Think, really think your present job is important.

56. Remember! It pays in every way to think big!

57. How to think big
Visualization adds value to everything.

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How to Think Big
• Discover That Success Is Measure by the Size of your Thinking

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How to Think Big
• Discover That Success Is Measure by the Size of your Thinking

60. HOW TO THINK
AND DREAM
CREATIVELY
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61. What is creative thinking??
 Creative thinking is finding new, improved ways to do anything.
To develop and strengthen our creative thinking ability:To develop and strengthen our creative thinking ability:
Step one: Believe it can be done.
 When you believe, your mind find ways to do it
 Believing paves the way for creative solutions
 Your mind will create a way if you let it

62.  Step 2 -Eliminate the word impossible from your thinkingEliminate the word impossible from your thinking
 traditional thinker's mind is paralyzed.
Three ways to fight traditional thinking –
Become receptive to ideas
Be an experimental person
Be progressive, not regressive

63. How to start your day creatively
 Ask yourself how can I do better?
Just before starting your day ask yourself –
 How can I do a better job today?
 What can I do to encourage my employees?
 What special favour can I do for my customers?
 How can I improve my personal efficiency?

64.  Capacity is a state of
mind
 In business , home ,
community try these two steps
–
 1. accept the opportunity to do
more
take on a new responsibility
as a compliment
 2. concentrate on "How can I
do more?"

65. 3 stage program to strengthen your creativity through asking and
listening:
1. Encourage others to talk to people.
2. Test your own views in the form of questions. Let other people
help you smooth and polish your ideas.
3. Concentrate on what the other person says. Listening means
letting what's said penetrate your mind.

66. Output expansion
 Why not ask yourself, 'What can I do to expand my output?“
 Your mind will creatively show you how.
 Big people monopolize the listening.
 Small people monopolize the talking.

67. How to stimulate your mind in your daily life
 To get mental stimulation incorporate into your pattern of life-
 1. Join and meet regularly with at least one professional group
that provides stimulation in your own occupational area.
 Rub shoulders-and minds-with other success-oriented people.

68. How to stimulate your mind in your daily life
 2. Join and participate in at least one group outside your
occupational interests
 Association with people who have different job interests helps
you to see the big picture

69. Harnessing and developing your ideas
 Use these three ways to harness and develop your ideas
 1. Don't let ideas escape. Write them down.
 Carry a note- book or some small cards with you

70. Harnessing and developing your ideas
 2. Next, review your ideas. File these ideas so long as the idea
has any promise, keep it.

71. Harnessing and developing your ideas
3. Cultivate and fertilize your idea. Now make your idea grow.
Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas.
put it to work for yourself, your job, your future

72. 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!
 Be progressive in everything you do.
 Ask yourself daily: “How can I do better?”
 Firmly believe it can be done

73. YOU ARE WHAT
YOU THINK YOU
ARE
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74. Your Appearance Talks !
 Your appearance talks to you. It builds up your confidence.
 The appearance also talks to others to make them say that this
is an important, intelligent, prosperous and dependable person.

75. How To Sell Yourself To Yourself ?
 Give yourself a pep talk several
times a day.

76. What makes the mind think the
way it does ?
• The mind is what the mind is fed.
• The mind reflects what its environment feeds it.
• Environment shapes us, makes us think the way
we do.

77. Reconditioning yourself for
success
 Develop a defense against people who want to
convince you that you can’t do it.
 Be sure you are in the flock that thinks right.
NEGATIVEEGATIVE

78. Reconditioning yourself for
success
 Don’t let negative thinkers pull you down to their
level.
 Cling to the people who think progressively.

79. Seek advice from people who
know
• It is a myth that successful people are
inaccessible.

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

81. 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

82. 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

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