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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Earth: True mastery is not doing hard things, but mastering the basics well.
Chapter 3: Earth: To discover a problem’s real essence, observe only what’s visible to you, and note what’s truly absent carefully.
Chapter 4: Fire: You must fail first before you can advance and genuinely succeed.
Chapter 5: Fire: Adopt a mindset that openly welcomes deliberate, intentional failure.
Chapter 6: Air: Compel yourself to ask questions, even if you already know the answer anyway.
Chapter 7: Air: To discover correct solutions, ask the most appropriate questions.
Chapter 8: Water: Ideas don’t arise from nothing; instead, they always spring from earlier ideas.
Chapter 9: Water: New ideas and solutions must be treated as beginnings, not as definitive ends ever.
Chapter 10: To apply the four elements of thinking in your life, you must be willing to change.
Description
With The Five Elements of Effective Thinking, you’ll learn how to think effectively and realize your full potential. Using as an organizing principle the four elements – earth, fire, air and water – the authors explain many techniques for improving the way in which we think. With the addition of a fifth element, change, they demonstrate how adopting the right attitude helps to bring about lasting, positive change.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to improve their thinking processes
- Anyone who wants to master a particular subject or skill
- Anyone wanting to enact a substantial change in their life