THINK STRAIGHT: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life Summary

• You become what you think about all day long.
• The life of wisdom is a life of reason.
• We should question the source of our beliefs, not the belief itself. Because most of our beliefs are based on our or other people’s perception.
• Thoughts should serve a useful purpose. If they don’t, they’re useless. That’s straight thinking.
• The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts.

• ......Ask yourself : “Will the outcome of a decision change the way I live?” If you ask that yourself consistently, you’ll find that you automatically filter out useless information and only make decisions that have an actual impact on the outcome of your life.
• It’s better to be aware of your thoughts and decide what you will ignore, and what you will give importance to.

• If you want the dots to connect in the future, you have to make sure you form dots in your brain. The only way you form dots is by learning, doing, making mistakes, reflecting, or anything you can do to feed your brain with the input it needs to give you the output you want.
• Only think about things you can control. That automatically eliminates about 99% of your thoughts because there’s very little you control in life.

1. You become what you think. 
2. When we improve our way of thinking, nothing is impossible to achieve. 
3. Learning is a good brain exercise. 
4. Life of wisdom is the life of reasoning. 
5. Human mind is an instrument to solve problem. 
6. Socrates method of thinking :- Questioning everything. 
7. We should question the source of believe not the believe itself. 
8. Life is not linear.  ( A-> b->c->d )
9. You can’t connect the dots looking forward but by looking backward. :- Steve Jobs. 
10. Do what works for you 
11. You can’t stop your thoughts but you can ignore them. 
12. Only focus on what you can control. 

1. We will become too dependent on thing which we give too importance. 
2. When you think too hard you often come up with bad ideas. 
3. Let go And relax. 
4. You don’t start doing things by whether they have done but by whether you have done. 
5. Small things can become big things. 
6. Details are the most important thing in life. 
7. Improve the quality of your thoughts. 
8. Thinking can help you and also destroy you. The outcome is decided by how you use them. 
9. Too much of anything is good for nothing.
10. Ultimate prize in life is having a calm mind in any situations. 

"Henry Ford said it best: “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” Thinking is not only hard—it’s the single most important thing in life.

Remember: The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts."

"Conquer yourself rather than the world.”― René Descarte

Few points that i would like to share from the book is :-

1. Be yourself.
2. Stop over thinking.
3. Write a journal everyday.
4. Think outside the box.
5. Release your mind.
6. Stop running for money.
7. Draw your thoughts.

It not easy to figure out things especially when you are in this gadget world. Give yourself time and think about your self.

Life happens now.

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“The devil is in the detail.”

“It’s a common belief that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s triggering a knee-jerk emotional response to something that happened long ago.”

“I know one thing: That I know nothing,”

"Thinking is the hardest work, that's why only a few got engaged in it."

"If we want to think straight all the time, we must stay grounded, look at facts, listen to people's perspective and only then draw a practical conclusion."

Mind is confused when you have too many options that might seem to be the right way to execute a task. To avoid this problem one has to train the mind with elemination techniques that would help in taking decisions quickly.