This book will show you how to think independently and not be subjected to other people controlling your mind with their thoughts and ideas. It will teach you how thoughts originate, come alive, and eventually cause you to pursue a course of action. You can and will be free of other people’s desire to influence your thinking. You will learn to be an independent thinker where your thoughts will benefit you and you alone.
The world is controlled by rich and powerful people who have a vested interest in how and what you think. They use the tools of advertising, mass media, and powerful and influential leaders. People who think independently will not be duly influenced by all of the above. They will wield their thinking process to do what is best for them.
This book is an attempt to teach you how to think. When we learn to think, we will make less mistakes and have a smooth life. This is because when you think before you act, you are able to take most, if not all, of the emotions out of the situation. You will be calmer and more in control of yourself. When you react, you have set your intellect and thought process aside, and you strictly act out of emotion. The same holds true on decisions -- if you make a decision based on emotion, it will be, on the average, 99% wrong.
Learning how to think before you act or make a decision will eliminate a lot of problems in your life. In days gone by, when you went to school, you were taught how to think and to see all sides. The best debater could put together a valid argument for the opposite viewpoint as well as his own. Today as I see it, pupils are taught what to think instead of how to think. Seeing only one side leads to radical thinking and action. Their mind is no longer free but is a prisoner of an idea or a set of ideas. Their mind is boxed in. This can never be to their benefit.
After reading this book, it will hopefully make you think differently about thinking. This is the purpose of this book. And remember, you can embrace a culture which functions below the waist or a culture which functions above the neck. Your choice.
Excerpt:
The Benefits of Thinking for Yourself
There are three kinds of minds, the open mind, the accepting mind, and the closed mind. The open mind will give consideration to any thought or ideas, but not without questioning every aspect of that thought or idea. The accepting mind is also open to a limited range of thoughts and ideas and will completely accept these thoughts and ideas without question. The closed mind has already determined what ideas and thoughts are true and real. The closed mind will not tolerate any thought or idea that comes into conflict with these predetermined thoughts and ideas.
People who choose to think for themselves, and it is a choice, will have an open mind. They will allow their minds complete freedom to consider each and every thought to its logical conclusion in both a positive and negative way.
They will allow their minds to go anywhere it wants to go. No inhibition or personal bias or prejudice will be allowed. It will not be swayed by any emotional concern, positive or negative. Logic and reason will reign over emotion, bias, and prejudice. Allowing your mind to think this way will allow you to have the best chance of making the right decision which will be in your best interest.
Thinking for yourself will free you from ideas and thoughts that others will try to impose on you to serve their own interests. You will not be held captive to any ideology or philosophy.
Your mind will have the freedom to change according to the circumstances that may prevail at any given time.
No one will ever be able to accuse you of having a closed mind.
You will be a free thinker, which will allow you to be a free person, free of any irrational fears.
You will have the best chance of having true peace of mind because you will be able to see yourself and others in a true light and accept things the way they are.
You will be able to live in the true world of is instead of being confined to the imaginary world of would, could, and should.
Those who blindly accept the ideas, thoughts, and ideology of others will become and are victims. Their lives are empty since they have no thoughts of their own.
These are the benefits of thinking for yourself. You can choose how to think for yourself or you can choose what to think by others.
