The Five Elements of Effective Thinking

By: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently. By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself--revealing previously hidden opportunities. The book offers real-life stories, explicit action items, and concrete methods that allow you to attain a deeper understanding of any issue, exploit the power of failure as a step toward success, develop a habit of creating probing questions, see the world of ideas as an ever-flowing stream of thought, and embrace the uplifting reality that we are all capable of change. No matter who you are, the practical mind-sets introduced in the book will empower you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent, and effective manner.

Filled with engaging examples that unlock truths about thinking in every walk of life, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking is written for all who want to reach their fullest potential--including students, parents, teachers, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners.

Whenever you are stuck, need a new idea, or want to learn and grow, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking will inspire and guide you on your way.

©2012 Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Super effective!!!

Awesome book, insightful information, nedd time to digest all of it. Already listened twice. Now I have to study the concepts and apply! It really makes you think about all the biased thinking we live on these days!

Perspective

It'll definitely give you another way of seeing things throughout life. I've been able to work my way through my challenges revolving around work, personal life, and emotional satisfaction by using some of the methods provided in this book. Would highly suggest to read it, and I'm looking forward to listening it to it again.

Amazing insight into the everyday thinking.

It had an impact on my life as I choose to follow this way forward

Excellent narrator

I liked the voice and pace of the narrator, and the quality of the content. This book is a good summary of the learning strategies one learn at a University in courses such as math, philosophy and English. This book should be read more than once in our lifetime to refresh our thinking strategies. I look forward to listening to more audiobooks by the same narrator and writer.

buy this!!

IT IS VERY USEFUL! QUICK TO THE POINT AND IMMEDIATELY APPLICABLE TO LIFE!

self improvement; can be used a lot for college

it was a great book to listen to. Although it took a little bit of time to focus and understand what the authors were getting across, it was concise and loaded with examples of each step for constantly progressing oneself. I think it's very beneficial for college students to listen to.

Amazing Book for solving problems

This book gave me amazing ideas for how to think through problems. I’m going to re-listen and give a better review.

great for educators

great book, thought provoking and to the point, finished it in one day, plan to integrate several concepts into my college courses

Key principles behind Learning and Thinking

This book is critical for modern day learning and thinking. It provides key principles that helps us to build great habits of thinking and learning. These principles are: 1) understanding deeply; 2) raising questions; 3) learning from mistakes; 4) understanding the past and future of an idea, and finally 5) making active changes. With these principles, we build our courage and curiosity. We allows ourselves to be proactively searching and interpreting information by ourselves. We challenges the status-quo and through this process, we tested our own principles and world views. This book is a must read for students, scholars as well as everyone who wants to make sense of their domain and their areas.

Thinking about Thinking

The authors of "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking", Edward Burger and Michael Starbird, are PhDs in Mathematics. They've taken an analytical approach to thinking and problem solving, analogizing the 'classical elements' of fire, earth, air, water, and adding a fifth: change. It's a clinical, almost elegant solution to the problem of people who think linearly but need to be imaginative and creative.

About half an hour into the book,I found a solution to a small but annoying problem that has been vexing me for two years. I'm not quite sure what suggestion worked, but work it did. I also really liked the idea that when stuck on a problem, throw a bunch of solutions at it and edit away the bad ones until you get one that works.

Do all of 'The 5 Elements' work for everyone, every time? Nope. The first year law student who asks endless "What if?" questions is likely to find himself with his mouth duck taped shut, locked in the handicapped stall of the men's room, handcuffed to the toilet paper dispenser.

Brian Troxell's deep, confident and persuasive voice reminded me of John Cunningham's 'Be a Man' audio from the 1997 movie "In & Out."

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