As a Man Thinketh
Assessment by Nana Adjoa Sifa Amponsah Sifa (Ghana)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
I believe the main idea James is trying to convey here can be likened to the message presented by King Solomon in the book of proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.” There is no doubt that your thought and character are inseparable. For me the main idea here is to encourage or motivate people to know that they are the makers and breakers of themselves. How? By their thoughts and actions and again this book keeps on reminding us of the mind as a powerful tool which has the ability to make and break but the most amazing thing here is that in the hands of the user of the mind lies this ultimate power.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. The idea that man is the mastermind of his thoughts.
Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If you cultivate your garden well, it cannot produce thongs and tares to choke your beautiful flowers, vegetables and fruits, on the other hand, if you leave your garden uncultivated, it can produce all sorts of unwanted things. The beauty of all this depends mainly on the gardener. If we continually trim our hedges, weed all thongs and tares from our mind we will get a beautiful garden (mind). What I like here is that, whether you cultivate or not, it will bring forth so the choice is ours.
ii. Thought is linked with purpose
I couldn’t agree more on this with Allen. For me this is very critical in the sense that if you don’t know where you are going, any point can be your destination on the other hand if you know exactly where you want to go until you reach there, you don’t stop going. If we link our thoughts to our purpose, it is almost impossible to fail. I love how he puts it here, Aimlessness is a vice. They who have no central purpose in their life fall prey to worries, fears, troubles and self-pity, which lead to failure and loss. Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
iii. The idea that as humans, we are not limited by anything.
God in his own wisdom created humans to take dominion over the world. As humans our only limitation can come from ourselves. When we fail to use our mind as we ought to, we may end up as failures and vice versa. We can choose to be wealthy or poor, the choice therefore is with us as people. “A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”
iv. The idea that Nobody but yourself can develop the skills you need, people can only give their suggestions, ideas but it is up to the individual take it or not.
There is an adage in Akan that says, “You can send a horse to the river side, but you can’t force it to drink.” If you think and see yourself as a looser, there is nothing that can be done for you to be able to make you a winner, however if you are able to alter this thought and start seeing yourself as a winner and having pure and positive thoughts, it will be almost impossible to fail.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. A man’s weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own and not another man’s. They can only be altered by him. His sufferings and his happiness are evolved from within.” “As he thinks, so is he; as he continues to think, so he remains”.
v. The idea that fear and doubt can be stumbling blocks in one’s life to achieve.
Greatest enemies of knowledge are doubt and fear. I have come to realize that, in this world, if you fear to live, you live to fear and that if there is something to fear, it is fear itself. That is why I agree with Allen perfectly. There may be possible causes of doubts and fear which maybe from dangerous situations to needs and so on. I believe there is nothing wrong with realistically acknowledging that fear and doubts do exist. But the problem comes in when we are not able to deal with them and allow them to get in-between what we want to acquire or achieve. As Mark Twain said “True courage is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear.” The idea here according to Allen is to slay our fears and doubts. “Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and she who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts herself at every step.”
vi. The idea that only by much searching are gold and diamonds found. As a miner, you need to dig deeper to get the minerals you are actually looking for.
Research has shown that some miners go as deep as 2000 feet. And this applies in our daily lives. If we search deeper, we can find every truth connected with our being and every myth that isn’t connected but made to believe it is. This particular phrase reminds of a scene in my childhood where I followed my friends to the farm in search of mushroom. To get beautiful mushrooms, we had to go extra yards. As you keep going, you realize the further you go the more beautiful ones you get. That applies in life, when you do shallow search, you get shallow results. To get the best out of everything requires sacrifice, time, handwork, determination and the likes. “Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.”
vii. The idea of having clean and pure thoughts.
When you have clean thoughts, it normally shows in every area of your life. On the other hand you can see on the faces of people who are always bitter for nothing, jealous. My aunty used to tell me that if you see anybody who is older than his/her age, it means that person always is planning something against another (Growing up I realized it is not always the case) Clean thoughts make you physically, spiritually and mentally fit. So long as you keep harboring thoughts of jealousy, malice, hatred and the likes, you cannot be free from sickness. “Thoughts of fear can kill the body. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, opening it to disease, while impure thoughts will shatter the nervous system. Strong pure and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These ideas have started taken root in me after my second reading of the book in my daily personal life. I have come to the realization that, man is the master gardener of his life. If my life will end well or not, depends mostly on me as person. I am fully responsible for my actions and inactions.
This idea is likened to a gardener which for me is very powerful to realize that I am the director of my life and I only can direct my path to where I want it to go. I can decide to make my garden a very beautiful one with beautiful flowers, shape the hedges and uproot all unwanted weeds or leave it to be bushy and unattractive.” As a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfecting the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” I am responsible for what happens in my garden. The cultivated produces flowers & fruit, while the uncultivated produces weeds. A man must continually weed-out all wrong, useless, and impure thoughts and deliberately cultivate right, useful, and pure thoughts. What I learned here is that my decision to cultivate my garden or not cannot stop it from bringing forth. So for me the most important thing is the choice you make because this choice will make or unmake you.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.”
There is an adage in Akan which says “the crab doesn’t give birth to a bird.” This is a natural law. . Whatever you think and act will produce its kind. You don’t grow mango and reap banana. If you always have bad thoughts about people or yourself, the end result is always not appealing and vice versa.
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
Everything you want in this life requires sacrifice sometimes big and other times small. Whatever it is there should be sacrifice be it time or money. But in today’s world people want to get to the top without anything being taken away from them. They want to wake up one day, and be the CEO of that company the next day.” Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life?”
“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
This to me is the power of choice. The choice you have to make at a point in one’s life whether knowingly or unknowingly, the outcome of that choice will lead you to where you want to be or not.
“The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.”
I love this quote very much because it is important that, we know the world itself will not wait for us to be ready before it moves, but the beautiful thing is that, if we are ready and prepared, if we have made the right choice with right attitude and really know what we are up to and where we are going, the road will be very much clear.
“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”
Everyone on this earth has made mistakes and in fact if you are human living on this earth and haven’t made mistakes then you better watch out, because it can mean you are not trying anything new, but the point here is that when you make those mistakes, you don’t dwell on them too much, to the point that you cannot perform on the next day. We can always learn from the mistakes of the past and learn the lessons that can make us better people.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
No.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Assessment by Nana Adjoa Sifa Amponsah Sifa (Ghana)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
The main idea behind this book is about overcoming barriers. There are limitations, challenges and standards which I call them barriers set by our societies and environment and once you are able to discover yourself and who you really are, you can really overcome. It is also about people who after overcoming those barriers know there’s more to this life than just eating and drinking which I call self help and Positive mental attitude to life.
In this book, all the seagulls believe that the only purpose of life is to eat in order to survive. They saw that flying was the only means to this end of getting food. They thought all they needed was to learn how to fly in order to be able to fight for food with the other gulls. But Jonathan had a different view to this, to him flying was rather the ultimate goal, so he spends all his life learning how to fly.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. I have learned that humility is the key to happiness.
Most people tend to associate timidity and poverty with humility. That is to say if you’re humble, you are timid or if you are poor then automatically you are humble. They are three different words all together. I have seen very humble rich people and arrogant poor people. The idea here is that no matter your status in life, it pays to be humble. Despite all the achievement of Jonathan Seagull, he was humble and this did not come from him, if you are humble you don’t need to even say it, the people around you will portray you as such, that is if indeed you. He didn’t want them to give him titles and the likes because to him this world is not about titles but the impact you are able to make.
ii. Just like James Allen puts it in his book ‘As a Man Thinketh,” those who dig deeper get the best diamonds.
I believe you can’t do a menial job and expect to receive CEO’s salary. The gull sees farthest who flies highest. If we search deeper, we can find every truth connected with our being and every myth that isn’t connected but made to believe it is. Jonathan kept on moving, flying higher and higher until he realized the truth connected with his being.
iii. That idea of staying true to what we believe.
If we know what we want from life, no matter the circumstances we shall remain faithful to our beliefs. Sometimes the society decides for us what is to be achieved. There may be barriers and norms that may hinder us from achieving our goal but as Jonathan, he didn’t give up on his believes, he went ahead to challenge the status quo by setting examples and being the only gull on earth that could fly so high.
iv. Self discovery is also an important idea in this book.
Seeing yourself as not an ordinary person helps you to do things differently even if all odds are against you. If you are able to discover yourself, you will realize you are able to do greater things that your mind couldn’t even comprehend before.
v. Jonathan Livingston was not ready to accept defeat even after he was banned from the flocks.
He still saw himself as a bird that could fly high. When he tried in the beginning, there were things he was missing, but with the mindset he had, of not accepting defeat, he went on moving until finally he was there. Sometimes we need not accept defeat, we must know that accepting defeat can be a sure way to failure.
vii. Sometimes we want to treat people who have maltreated us or offended us in the same vein, in other words pay them in their own coin.
We often feel good when we pay evil with evil. I like the idea that even though the flock sent Jonathan away, he still had the passion to go back to earth to help his people, trying to let them see what he also saw. Refusing to see the negative aspects of people and focusing on the good in people can really help.
“You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love.”
vii. The idea that Practice leads to perfection.
Jonathan could have been with the other flock if he wasn’t practicing every day. He knew there was something good in flying but how was he going to get to the top, only by practicing. Many a time, we tend to think that we are so perfect in our fields that we need not to practice. But my research has shown that even the best motivational speakers in the world practice their messages before presentation.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
These lessons or ideas are very important in our daily lives. As we don’t live on islands but we live in the midst of people, definitely we will encounter challenges which may bring a stop to what we want to achieve or delay us from achieving our goals. These challenges may come from within our families, fans or friends but the most dangerous of them all is the challenges that come from within us as individuals. When we start seeing limitations instead of opportunities, we tend to be comfortable in our zone and not wanting to have anything to do with other zones, but if we see opportunities and realize that we are just not ordinary but have the passion to excel, with this attitude, life will present to us different million possibilities. Our mental attitude towards things and people will either take us to the top or bring us to the bottom. This book will help me from now on see myself as a person without limits and that I can do All things through Christ who gives me strength.
Again, I think it’s really not necessarily to respond to people in their own coin but rather empathize with those that do bad things to you. I agree it’s going to be difficult but not impossible, with a conscious effort and the view of the positive effect it can have on us, we can do it (Yes we can).
We also need to try new things and change the way we do things because if we do the same things all the time, we are not going to get different results. Sometimes the journey may not be straight but by all means we have to keep moving, we may fall but the beauty of it is to get up and move on. As Nelson Mandela says “the glory of a man lies not in never falling but how many times you rising every time we fall.”
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.”
Having the freedom to be yourself demands that you don’t follow the crowd and what everybody else is doing. You have to be original and be your true self. Having this positive attitude in my opinion helps one to overcome so many challenges. The idea that nothing can stop you from achieving your aim on this earth boost your confidence and self esteem.
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
Boredom, fear, anger, envies, jealousy can hinder a person from achieving his aims in this life. These emotions will be in between you and your vision and can sometimes cut short your life. I have come to realize that, in this world, if you fear to live, you live to fear and that if there is something to fear, it is fear itself. Apart from blocking you from attaining your goal, they can have effect on your health.
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
The most frustrating situation in life, one can encounter is when you are misunderstood, when people interpret what you mean in a very different manner. It leads to distortion and can bring all sort of negative effects.
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here Overcome time, and all we have left is now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice?”
I believe in as much as we are humans, definitely we will do things or enter into relationship because of other reasons sometimes because of our own parochial interest but I believe the idea here is that we shouldn’t base our relationships or in other words our relationship should not depend solely on those things whether tangible or intangible. The adverse effect is that, if these things are not there, there is the tendency of the relationship breaking up.
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”
If we are to follow all the limitations around us, there will be no change because at the end of the day, everything you want to know has its own problems. The ability to be able to overcome these barriers is the difference between success and failure in my opinion. We need to focus on the things that will take us closer to our vision than those that take us farther from it.
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
Nobody but us can be able to lift ourselves out of ignorance. If we discover our worth, if we set ourselves beyond the ordinary, we can face whatever lies before us. Ignorance is a great disease and can be a great barrier to progress. We have to lift ourselves from ignorance and we can only do this by learning and practicing new and old things.
“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
You don’t do same things everyday and expect different results. Learning new things everyday expose you to different opportunities and things in life, but if you refuse to learn you will realize that you are limited in almost all things.
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
The positive mindset or positive attitude towards life. Not setting boundaries for yourself. This attitude helps one to overcome the challenges ahead of him, because he knows or has seen what is ahead of him and believes nothing can stop him from achieving his goal.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
No.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
Assessment by Nana Adjoa Sifa Amponsah (Ghana)
1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?
I believe the main idea of this book is the power of the human mind thus the mind as a powerful tool. It focuses on the power we have to control and direct the things around us by using our mind. It stresses on the fact that, every individual has a secret invisible talisman. On one side of the talisman is the positive mental attitude and on the other side is the negative mental attitude. So with positive mental attitude (PMA) indeed one can attract all the good things in life to himself and in the same vein, a person with Negative Mental Attitude (NMA) repels the good and beautiful things life can offer to him. There is also a fact that, a person with the positive mental attitude can achieve his or her dreams.
The good things in life such as good health, joy, wealth, good marriage depend largely on which side of the talisman you are. If you on the PMA, then naturally all these things can come to you and vice versa.
2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.
i. Whatever the mind of man conceives and believes, the mind of man can achieve.
This is the idea I personally have discovered to be very true and helpful in every area of my life. Nothing is really impossible under the sun, but how to make it possible largely depends on how we use our mind. As soon as we are able to believe in our mind that, it is possible, then automatically our subconscious mind begins to work under that universal law, and off we go to the great land of achievement.
ii. God is always a good God.
God is always a good God is indeed an idea so important to me because it is so glaring that our deeds and actions don’t deserve the kind of love God keeps on showering on us. He is always a good God because even in our unfaithfulness, he still remains faithful. In our time of needs, he is ever present to deliver us and provide for us what we need. He has given us so much but yet we give him so little and He keeps directing our paths to right places. His showers are undiscriminated, he showers on both the poor and the rich, the sinner and the righteous, the old and young. Indeed God is always a good God.
iii. Self Motivators
The idea that you can really motivate yourself by words, and no one can say these words to you but yourself. According to this book, these words when repeated with frequency, rapidity and emotion, it affects the subconscious mind and causes it to react. However one needs to be careful on the kind of words he/she chooses as motivators or suggestions, because these words can make or break you, therefore it is imperative to select words that can put you on track, words that can get you going when the road becomes unclear, when it is tough, words that can move you out of your comfort zone to take action. Words such as “do it now;” “Day by day, in every way, through the grace of God, I am getting better and better.” From Hill and stone’s PMA can help a great deal.
iv. Something More.
Something more? Yes something more. I personally love this phrase very much which is in synonymous to a phrase I often use “the extra factor.” Sometimes we tend to forget that the difference between success and failure is that added value, that extra thing you have to factor into your thinking. But then again it just doesn’t come as magic, you have to work at it to be able to identify that something more and acting upon your discovery.
v. To become an excellent achiever, it takes practice, practice and practice.
Practice leads to perfection, practice makes man perfect, practice teaches best etc., are all common phrase I believe we have heard over and over since childhood. Many a time, we tend to think that we are so perfect in our fields that we need not to practice. But my research has shown that even the best motivational speakers/presenters in the world practice their messages/speeches before any delivery or presentation. It is very good to practice, if you don’t the result is always emergency. And most emergency cases end up in the morgue.
vi. Loving people and serving them is the greatest value in life.
Sometimes we want to treat people who have maltreated us or offended us in the same vein, in other words pay them in their own coin. We often feel good when we pay evil with evil. I like the idea that. You have to love people and not only that, but serving them. In reality it feels so good to be loved and cared for. What I have gotten from this book is the golden rule. If I feel good when good things are happening to me, I should also empathize with my fellow by showing love and serving them. There is a portion in the bible and I think it summarizes all that we need to on this earth. It states “Trust in the Lord and Do Good” Very simple phrase but carries very strong message.
vii. Don’t see only the mote in the other fellows eyes, see the beam in yours.
Most people including myself usually are quick to judge others. It is very easy to criticize others because we sometimes forget our own faults or lessen ours whenever we try to compare ourselves to others. We think we are better of. But the idea here denotes that you repel others if you only see the bad in them. So it is better to remove the beam in our own eyes before seeing the mote on others. In other words we should try as much as possible to deal with our issues, only then, can we have the right to correct others. In correcting others, we should also be mindful of what, when and how to do it.
3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?
In my personal life, these ideas have started taking root. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve is like a daily creed now for me, its now my principle , anytime I’m confronted with situations in which I feel like giving up or which are so difficult to pursue, I just have to recite my creed, and there I go,its like magic, I get the inner urge to move on.
I also have got some self motivators through this book which I have adopted and use frequently. It is very typical of me now to wake up in the morning and say to myself, “day by day, in every way, by the grace of God, I’m getting better and better”. So simple to say but it carries heavy weight.
I have always known God to be a good God but this book has made some points so clear and simple and now deep within me, that word “always” has added value to my thinking by seeing God not only as good but as “Always Good.”
The idea of “do it now “is a very helpful tool. I sometimes love to put things on the shelves instead of doing them right away. But ever since I got hold of this book, I do things as and when needed especially when I remember those three magic words “Do it now.”
I once had an encounter with a close friend and what he said to me always speaks to me when I want to give up or quit trying. His words were “No you already have, but yes you can have” After reading this book, I have added that “No you already have, yes you can have if you keep on trying.” You never loose anything by trying so I will keep on trying. In a nutshell, I think this book has indeed taken me to another level.
4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Have a definiteness of purpose.”
get a clearly defined goal is a step forward. Hill and Stone put it as definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. And I couldn’t agree with them more on this. What I have realized is that, the world will change whether or not you choose to change it. God has given you the power to change it so you can control the direction it goes if you really want to, but the most important thing is to get your goal defined. If you don’t know where you are going, anywhere can be your destination.
If you know where you are going, it helps you set your priorities right, you are able to avoid detractors on the way and move onto your destination.
“If a man is right, his world would be right.”
If you thoughts are clean and pure definitely your actions will be clean and pure, if your thoughts are impure and unclean, haboring envy, jealousy and the likes, you are going to reap same. Again if you are unhappy with your world, you have to begin to change yourself and others will follow suit, that is to say, if you are able to change yourself to a state of happiness, your world will certainly be a happy world. Because at the end of the day, we are what we think.
“Every adversity has a seed of equivalent or greater benefit for those have PMA.”
Sometimes, the things that seem to be challenges and barriers turn out to be opportunities in disguise. All we need to do is to engage the mind in thinking to discover these opportunities and we will be happy we even encountered such challenges.
“Man’s greatest power lies in prayer.”
Constant communication with the divine being is a powerful tool. We are just carnal and we don’t even know what will happen in the next minute, but the superior being knows the end from the beginning. He is in absolute control over the entire universe, So if you want to know the future, you ask him, if you want the road to be clear, you tell him, if you want to succeed you ask for it from Him and the only way you can do that is through communicating with Him in prayer. Therefore, there is no doubt that prayer is man’s greatest tool or weapon.
“If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.”
This quote reminds me of a proverb in my language which literally means “where there is a will, there is always a way.” If you know what you are really looking for in a newspaper or magazine, no matter the number of pages, once you have seen that particular thing in the contents, you will definitely thumb through the pages and get it. In other words , if you know what you want it is very difficult to be distracted and you wont stop at anything till you get it, that is why its so crucial to get a definite purpose in life..
“It takes an idea, followed by action to turn failure into success.”
Having an idea is a very good thing because I believe a single idea can change the world, but it is not enough to just get an idea. It is one thing to have or get an idea and it is totally another thing to act on it. So many failures got ideas similar to that of the successful ones, but here the difference we may attribute to action. The successful acted upon their ideas and turned their failures into success. Its not magic,it takes the will power and positive mental attitude.
5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?
No.
6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?
Yes.
7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
No.
Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.
A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 9
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9