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As A Man Thinketh<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Assessment by Nurelegn Zelalem Mihrete (Ethiopia)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The author divides the book in different topics but when I combine these points it give me the following one big main idea.<\/span><\/p>\n When I combine these single main points in one general main idea of the book, man can made himself and his own circumstances to a better world if his thoughts are reputedly taking about Love, Unity, Gratitude, Feel Happy, Having Positive Thought this changes not only himself but, if a man have such thoughts he can even change the world. But to have this man must first change his inner feeling and his inner circumstances before he start to change his outer circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n 2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you 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.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n i. Thought and character<\/span><\/p>\n Its main point is to tell that how a man shapes his character by speaking a positive thought for himself and how a man is seen in a smart way inside a people by his thought. So I can deserve a good personality between people if I owe a positive thought.<\/span><\/p>\n ii. Effects of thought on circumstances<\/span><\/p>\n This topic tells me based on a man\u2019s thought how his all circumstances goes in a better way for example if I am thinking and thought about my bad bosses how bad he is in the morning, my boss will continue bad even if I gets in the office early.<\/span><\/p>\n iii. Effects of thought on health and body<\/span><\/p>\n This tells me if I am thinking that I am feeling bad in my body I will get ill because our white blood cells stop duplicating to protect the ill cells because I already feel bad and they lost their strength to immune these bad gusts to my body. So felling the feeling of healthy gives me more strong blood cells and I can stay healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n iv. Thought and purpose<\/span><\/p>\n Unless a man feels that he have a purpose for this better world he feels for himself that he is purposeless and he doesn’t achieve anything in his life. So feeling like having a purpose makes a man a winner.<\/span><\/p>\n v<\/span><\/strong>. The thought factor in achievement<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Unless a man thoughts is focus on achievement he may made no achievement so man must tell for himself that about different achievements not about falling down.<\/span><\/p>\n vi. Vision and ideal<\/span><\/p>\n Having a vision helps a man to save the world not only himself.<\/span><\/p>\n vii. Serenity<\/span><\/p>\n Finally calmness makes a man to think more about his eternity which means he can be capable in focusing in first thing first principle.<\/span><\/p>\n 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? <\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In the first place none of the idea inside the book is left as useless each point is written with great care. Let me start from the point that mentioned in the first page that is, \u201cThought in the mind made us. What we are by thought was wrought and built. If a man\u2019s mind hath evil thought, pain comes on him as comes the wheel the ox behind. If one endures in purity of thought, joy follows him as his own shadow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This is the driving power to think in positive way throughout my reading of the book, because unless I am thinking that the book I read is worthy I can\u2019t get the point or the message that that the book delivers me. This gives me a lesson that before I say anything about anybody I must think in the positive thought that fells me comfortable at this point I can gather the thing that my soul need from others as long as everybody has its own good part. I said this in my working environment I always think that people are affecting me and even I can\u2019t swallow the idea that others raise for me because my driving thought is in the negative way, before I listen them my thought tells me others are wrong. So as mentioned in the first page of the book evil thought has a pain and pure thought has joy I practice in my life that before starting anything my thought must be in the way of purity in my thought.<\/span><\/p>\n To create the better world if my though is in a positive way It gives me a chance to help others, to hear what others feel and to comment on their idea in a positive win-win way at this point others will take a lesson from me in a practical way and they will practice it and they distribute such a positive thought finally our globe will encircle in a win-win positive effect and selfish will get minimized.<\/span><\/p>\n The second point that inspires me inside the book is the idea of \u201cMen are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.\u201d Let me say something about my life, when I start to live independently I was starting life with one of my friend as a home partner. Through time I start to make him to close too much with him I make him busy even am getting angry when he meet his girlfriend but instead I meet my girlfriend and stay long time and I make him lonely inside home, but when he stay with his girlfriend and stay long I say why he stay long by making me lonely. And I start to keep silent when he knock the door time from time our friendship becomes darken I start to talk in hard way then after I separate from him and start to live in depth lonely and for my loneliness I always blame him because I hate to be lonely. The point from the book that I get is the way I was act with him is like the way to change the environment but I didn’t do nothing to change my way like. If I spend little time with my girlfriend, he may spend little time with his girlfriend because he may start to think that I get home early and the hole environment will be turn to good. And I may not be lonely for longer. The best thing from the book is, when I read this book me and my cousin thinking to live together as a home partner and at this time I am sure that I may change my own circumstances in the best way before I wary about the external circumstance. This will continue in each and every circumstances of my own life.<\/span><\/p>\n Such idea is playing a powerful role. For example I like to involve in a human right activist advocacy but now what I feel is, people who advocate for human right must first feel their own freedom ,they must be free in mind and positive in mind for their own feeling, but most advocates are feeling as against with the government who oppress human right. Because they feel against the governments they do always hard talks and always no agreements between them because the activators did not change their own circumstance to a positive and dealing way. When I say this if their instinct tells them that something good they must do, if their mind starts to think something beyond them they must give permission for their own thinking before they enforce a government to give human right they must practice the rights it runs in their own mind. It\u2019s such kind of mentality that can advocate human right in purity of human right. And I let give a permission to think in such away for my own life in this human right advocacy movement. Let me add one good example I have a best friend for the last ten years currently he is a musician, one upon a time when he and his band are in live show, but the string of one guitar player is cut off not only one string but three strings are cut of even if the show continues with some disturbance at the end of his show what my friend thinking about is having enough string to the next show, and the next \u00a0day he goes to a music shop and buy five strings, the way he thought for his mind is if I owe reserve string my show will not be disturbed and then after none of his shows are getting disturbance even if the strings gets cut. So he changes his own circumstance before he says his guitar player, why you do this? Why don\u2019t use in a soft way? It\u2019s now that I recognize what he has done because at that time I give him an advice that annoy the guitar player? In much way I will start to attract such a thought towards my life.<\/span><\/p>\n To build a better world everybody must worry about our own circumstance to move in a better way with others, because our external circumstances depend on our own circumstances if I do good people do reward me in a good way if I do bad people never see me again and our cooperation may get some distortion. So the one who respect first himself before he say people don\u2019t respect me, the one who dress in clean way before he say people look me as a dirty, the one who do his own job in time first before he prepare a cause for a flop, the one who gratitude by what he have before he say what did I have? Will get absolute pleasure, absolute happiness and our world become one and we all will continue as a brother and sister. So to create such a power and to build such a beautiful better world change is starting from myself and I will see this happiness Cause if am happy the world adds one happy citizen this is how our better world created.<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got you attention? If so, pleas quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBe not impatient in delay, but wait one who understands; when sprit rises and commands, the Gods are ready to obey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The word tells me that I mustn\u2019t be angry because of the things that I want is delay rather just I must give patience and do more to have that thing as long as my sprit tells me the thing that delayed is mine but if I get angry because of its delayed I stacked angry and I can\u2019t focus\/concentrate on that so even if it comes to me I may lose it. So focus and stay doing and keeping the thing is the better one. It\u2019s just like with is my office if I won\u2019t the senior management position but if it delay I must not get angry by the delay and show low performance rather it\u2019s better to keep the position by doing hard and systematically and listing my instinct, as long as my instinct understands that I afford that position on its time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span><\/strong>You will be what you will be, let failure find its false content.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s my thinking and attraction who makes me and what I will be is what I am thinking now and what I am is what I was thinking so what I am now and what I will be for tomorrow is what must I be not what I must not be. So no more failure that I think about it rather everything is what I must be and what I will be even if I got failure it might have a positive impact like the life of the Eagle. When the eagle gets old its mouth get long and he can eat anything and he have two choice weather he must cut his mouth throwing himself from the peach or waiting his death date both options have a pain if he throw himself from the high peach it may have a great pain but add another 30-40 years of living opportunity, if he chose waiting his death date he may starving so both pain and starving is what will be in each eagles life. Its not failure it\u2019s his content that gives him long life or death depending on the choice.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne man is oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n What did I understand from this is everything is depending as our interpretation, if we hate the oppressor may be the slaves will not get what they want to eat at list the oppressor will cover this cost, and if many are slave and they are willing to be slave we can hate the slaves because they create additional cost to the oppressor. So the thing is not about hating it\u2019s all about thinking ourselves as a slave gives our hand in self permission because we are oppressor it\u2019s the reason we get the slaves who gives their hand by their own willing as long as we are in the orbit of direct or indirect cooperation in the living orbit. For that matter all are about knowing the rule of cooperation and living in that bounded commonly understood rules otherwise none of them made a mistake. So knowledge is power.<\/span><\/p>\n 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?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Everything inside the book is clear enough and I understand all sentences and paragraphs. But I got some points that I disagree.<\/span><\/p>\n In part three the second paragraph says that \u201cThey who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakens can\u2019t persist in a power-evolving universe.<\/span><\/p>\n What my mind understands is that our universe has lead by one energy a very high powerful energy. How a man can say easy or pity worries and or troubles exist as long as we are not inside that man which is the impossible. So in the first place for me there is no pity worries or troubles it is depending on the man who feel his feeling so each feeling give a man happiness or madness so he must use prey if he can\u2019t avoid such feelings, by the rule of creatures no man is born without a purpose but this fears or troubles may stacked the man\u2019s mind to not to know his central purpose so there is no easy prey as long as the man who feel such feelings are disturbing him. His prey is not easy for his own life. So preying to know his central purpose to that powerful energy can\u2019t be a Cause for failure. In addition the idea is very difficult to define in a practicable way because it negates If I do not know my central purpose I may feel worries, fears and if I face worry and fear I must prey to avoid this, then after my worry and fears get healed I start to think my central purpose and ask in prayer and as a questioning format for myself and for that powerful energy who leads the universe about what is my purpose?. No easy prey for me.<\/span><\/p>\n 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?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n No the book didn’t contain any exercises that fulfilled by the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n 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, pleas comment.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I think it covers the book well as long as the questions are open.<\/span><\/p>\n Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A. How interesting was it to read?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Assessment by Nurelegn Zelalem Mihrete (Ethiopia)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n For a long time leadership theoretician are in debate of two ideas that is, weather leadership is born or in learn. And I believe in these two ideas in the following way. If leaders are get their leadership skill in born their ability will be focused in some social circumstances, for example their skill reflect in some social activities such as coordinating parties, involving in some volunteer activities such as Red Cross or in some clubs like feeding homeless and the like. They are very nice in coordinating leading such activities.\u00a0 Secondly if leaders who get a leadership skill through learning their matter focuses on how to lead the teams in their working environment, how to lead people in the organization, how to coordinate jobs with in the group.<\/span><\/p>\n The following is how I make a difference between these types of leaders from my working and some social life experience as I face both of them. Leaders who get their skill in born exercise their skill in \u201cjust accept and listen only me\u201d manner which leads them \u201cam always right\u201d principle even if they have the ability to coordinate and involve first on the job. In addition they did not updating in the existing social structure because nature give them a gift people listen them and accept what they did say in such away they pressing some peoples unfortunately or unintentionally. The second one is people who learn leadership in a learning system such type of leaders face some problems for example through a learning process they focus how to higher up them self\u2019s, they use the half since of leadership, I mean the half because they wont to lead other before they change their inner old thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n For that matter I concluded the following, if in born leaders are going through the ongoing updating of their skill in a scientific and if they don\u2019t mitigate themselves based on the current and the coming social structure they cannot be a leader. And if leaders who develop leadership by learning before the try to apply the since within the others they must practice on their day to day activity and they must compare the change from their past thinking to the present they can\u2019t put in a positive skill.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally a good leader is a leader who learn in a daily base, who update him\/herself in new thinking, who share his\/her own change with others so weather or not a leader is in born or in learn he must go through all time learning.<\/span><\/p>\n The author tries to asses a lot of thing that how peoples going to be change and shines. His main objective in my view his main idea is to show through a searching of new thing at first people may not accept and ma hesitate\u00a0 us but if there is a dream with in us we must go and get it and never stopping dreaming another dream after a dream.<\/span><\/p>\n 2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you 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.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n i. Thinking out of the box.<\/span><\/p>\n A<\/span>s I read Jonathan Seagull isstarting thinking how to fly above and above, which means he start thinking impossible to possible and start practice that his group never did it before. This gives me to think out of the box that my old circumstances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ii. May get demotion from my new way.<\/span><\/p>\n Because my social group never think in such away, it might be hard to get acceptance easily as long as the thing is new and never done before. And there might be a feeling of hopeless and back to the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n iii. Never give up<\/span><\/p>\n Even if the group accept me as wrong action if I believe on that change I must not give up, even if the group excluded me I must show that I can, that there is something which the norm never seen before. And I must go back to practice flying high.<\/span><\/p>\n iv. Get learning from the one above me in the same practice.<\/span><\/p>\n When I start my new journey I may get someone who is above me, someone who can give me a lecture how to fly above and above. And I must accept the way I lectured and I must be within the learning that I captured it.<\/span><\/p>\n v. Never pausing in a single achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n I may achieve my first dream but achieving that dream doesn\u2019t mean pausing rather it needs to dream another big one another that I haven\u2019t think before because I already seen what I dream so I must dream the next one.<\/span><\/p>\n vi. Lecturing to others what I have already seen.<\/span><\/p>\n I may achieve most of the things that I want in life but unless and otherwise it transferred to another new person it may be hide success is measured when others are benefited from me, so I must start thin about others and must lecture what I have achieved and enabling them to move more than me not limiting with in my circumstance I must show them how they going to be better than me.<\/span><\/p>\n vii. Giving or forwarding my leadership to the new one.<\/span><\/p>\n After all I achieve my all dream am thinking the new thing from the old group and I get a lot who get my lecture and do things in smart way than me, there might be the one who fly more than I fly so I must give my place and he must start to lead the new ones. Then I must search someone who still fly the lowest and enable to practice the new fly zone.<\/span><\/p>\n 3. How will this 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? <\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Personally I am trying to think something new and different from my organization and social thinking. There are some points explained inside the book. For example \u201cThe speed was power, and the speed was, joy and the speed was pure beauty\u201d quoted from the book, this gives me one point that I must remind unless and otherwise I start in practice what I have think what I have say new will be old so it needs speed to practice things that run in my mind. Congratulating me must stay for a few periods unless I may start to boost myself and I may forward my new thing to old. I always fascinating myself to be like somebody but this will be a challenge to not to be my own self so I must give freedom for myself like thinking extremely but attaching with the existing one and by reflecting my true self and my true dream.<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got you attention? If so, pleas quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat you did manage to do was to change your level of consciousness rather abruptly. It is your choice now. You can stay and learn on this level, poor Fletch. Don\u2019t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you will see the way to fly and to fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. You must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The above are quotes that I admire of for myself the first one is how manage my level of consciousness to think as far I can and next to this my eyes will tell me look somebody is trying that and he\/she fall from that, but rather to think about how that person falls it better thing and ask am I on my understanding or am going through the practice track of others? So my understanding is better than my eye that look the fall outs. Next to this the last quote tell me after I understand my way I must think like I already arrived which helps me to plan to reach on my target.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n 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?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> I understand what the book wants to say and it is clear.<\/span><\/p>\n The first one that I disagree is that, why the lecturer hate the idea when Jonathan Livingston wants to back to its groups. I think if he going to back to his group he may give how he was changing his life and may inspire the new born daughters of that group even if it\u2019s hard to make them in his way to the old ones he may attract the newly born and I refuse his lecturer Chiang.<\/span><\/p>\n The second one that I disagree is, again Chiang say to Jonathan the following, \u201cForget about faith, you didn\u2019t need faith to fly, you need to understand flying. This is just the same.\u201d In my belief even if a person understands the thing unless he do not have a faith to do his understanding, it may makes things to fall because his understanding is not in faith. Because it is his faith that leads him towards understanding. And again even if Jonathan understand flying his eyes tell him that other bird falls, so before understanding the circumstances first he put a strong faith on what he will be understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n 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?<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> No the book didn\u2019t contain any exercises that fulfilled by the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n 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, pleas comment.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> I think it covers the book well as long as the questions are open. <\/span><\/p>\n Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A. How interesting was it to read?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/span> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Keys to Success<\/span> 1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The author\u2019s main idea is how a person can made his own life in the better way if he secure stability both in personal life and in financial way. And he tries to mention basic applicable principles which lead us in that point with. And he rather focuses on action oriented principles than theories.<\/span><\/p>\n 2. 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\nAssessment by Nurelegn Zelalem Mihrete (Ethiopia)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n