The Magic of Thinking Big

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of The Magic of Thinking Big pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Treat your mind as a 'thought factory' you actively manage: when you believe something can be done, your brain goes to work finding ways to do it, so deliberately feed it success-thoughts instead of failure-thoughts.
2. Diagnose and cure 'excusitis', the failure disease, by refusing the four common alibis (health, intelligence, age, luck) and reframing each supposed limitation as something you can work around.
3. Action cures fear, so when anxiety or doubt creeps in, do the thing immediately; indecision and delay only fertilize the fear and make it grow.

The other 4 — and the full 12-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 13 chapters

The whole summary runs about 12 minutes, read or listened to.

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