• How Successful People Think

  • Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
  • By: John C. Maxwell
  • Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,635 ratings)

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How Successful People Think

By: John C. Maxwell
Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
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Publisher's summary

Gather successful people from all walks of life - what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!

A Wall Street Journal best seller, How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact listen for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these 11 keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success.

The 11 keys to successful thinking include:

  • Big-picture thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas
  • Focused thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential
  • Creative thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs
  • Shared thinking - working with others to compound results
  • Reflective thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.
©2009 John C. Maxwell (P)2009 Hachette Audio

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easy and straight to the point

If you could sum up How Successful People Think in three words, what would they be?

nice and simple methods easy to listen and understand

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about the knowing your character not the technique

What does Chris Sorenson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

the energy

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

efficient habits

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Great

Loved it definitely prepared enough to be a better thinker and apply everyday principals of thinking to my life

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Another winning book from Mr Maxwell

I really enjoyed the concepts and applicability of this book. The narrator is easily understood and makes the listen a pleasure.

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Awesome

This book will make you think! It is a book for anyone and everyone. Take all chapters to heart. You can change

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EVERYONE should read this.

Great book. Will be recommending it a lot and will definitely read it again. Would have loved the author to have read it himself just because he has a very powerful and commanding voice and precense, but nonetheless it was a great book.

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Motivation booster

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pumps you up to do the right things and think wisely about you actions in life in general.

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Great as usual!

The narrator's voice is not that far from Maxwell's which make this book an easy listen.

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Critical pillar of life success

Maxwell puts into context that it is the “how” people think that leads to “what” people think and THAT nuance is what makes ALL the difference.
This book is thought provoking to say the least…no pun intended.

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Superb.

Great perspective on how to granularly dissect one’s thinking.
Highly recommended reading.
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Thinking through your success

This book is like the textbook for learning how to think beyond what you know, feel, and understand. It is what is need for those of us who want to be a success in any area

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