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    The Unlimited Mind: Master Critical Thinking, Make Smarter Decisions, And Be In Control Of Your Life
    The Unlimited Mind: Master Critical Thinking, Make Smarter Decisions, And Be In Control Of Your Life
    The Unlimited Mind: Master Critical Thinking, Make Smarter Decisions, And Be In Control Of Your Life
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    The Unlimited Mind: Master Critical Thinking, Make Smarter Decisions, And Be In Control Of Your Life

    By Zoe McKey

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    Terrified of making bad decisions and missing great opportunities? Do you question your judgment and doubt your intuition?



    Your brain is like any other muscle: it needs training to improve. Nobody is born with flawless critical thinking and judgment skills. These skills usually require systematic practice, but you can shortcut the learning curve by learning and mastering the methods of the best thinkers, psychologists, and high achievers.


    This book collects all the tips, tricks and tactics of the most successful people to develop your inner smartness.



    The Unlimited Mind will show you how to think smarter and find your inner genius. This book is a collection of research and scientific studies about better decision-making, fairer judgments, and intuition improvement. It takes a critical look at our everyday cognitive habits and points out small but serious mistakes that are easily correctable.


    Discover and utilize the uncharted parts of your brain.



    Zoe McKey has studied human cognition for over a decade. To her, it was essential to know how others think to secure her own survival. This book collects her personal experiences and some of the most famous studies in cognitive improvement and social psychology to show you the way to better critical thinking, decision-making, and judgment.


    Leave analysis paralysis for yesterday. Learn:



    •How to overcome your mental blocks and improve your life
    •How to discover your “personal excellence”
    •The advantages of thinking like a professional and not an amateur
    •How to bring out your best creative thinking
    •Improve your intuition skills quickly and permanently


    Don’t get stuck on decisions ever again.



    •Learn to use the 6 Hats Method™ to make the best multilateral decisions
    •Master your time management with Philip Zimbardo’s time paradox theory
    •Learn to set goals like a champion with Arnold Schwarzenegger
    If you commit to practicing the techniques in this book you’ll learn to gather and assess relevant information instead of an unfocused mass of data. You’ll have a self-directed, self-monitored, self-disciplined, and self-corrective way of thinking. You’ll know how to analyze situations from different angles so you won’t jump to hasty, premature conclusions but well-founded, objective ones.
    You will make better predictions, reduce regrets that follow a bad decision and become more aware of your life in general.


    Don’t choose the hard and long way to learn thinking smarter, get started NOW.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateMar 10, 2019
    ISBN9781985266537
    The Unlimited Mind: Master Critical Thinking, Make Smarter Decisions, And Be In Control Of Your Life

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    The Unlimited Mind - Zoe McKey

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    Introduction

    This book isn’t about my thoughts, but the thoughts others inspired me to think. This book doesn’t summarize my best practices, but the practices the best use that made me become better.

    We might not think smart all the time, but we’re smarter than we think. This book is aimed to help you:

    Think smarter

    Believe in your inner smartness

    Chapter by chapter, I will present you different life areas where you can improve your cognitive abilities and your self-esteem. With the help of the best thinkers, psychologists, and high achievers of the world, you’ll get explanations and examples on how to:

    Find your personal excellence

    Become a professional from an amateur

    Explore the depths of your creative thinking

    Understand the nature of judgments and become better in it

    Dream big

    Have opportunity freedom by turning freedom into opportunities

    Travel in time (seriously)

    Make multilateral decisions

    Master self-discipline

    …and much more.

    I wish I could promise that when you finish reading, you’ll know more about yourself. That’s not my goal with this book. Instead, I chose to aim for making you think deeper, question your current self-image, think deeper, and when you’re finished reading, to realize how much undiscovered potential lies beneath your conscious brain. I hope that at the end of this book, you’ll feel that you know more about yourself than you thought, and you’ll start filling those gaps with a smarter mindset.

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    Smarter Than You Think

    "More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. So dust off the cobwebs and use all those great ideas you have!"

    — Unknown Author

    Did you ever daydream of the person you might become? Are you passionate about a work that you would like to accomplish? Do you have an idea of who you are meant to be?

    At the same time, do you also tell yourself that your vision is impossible to turn into reality? Are you an entrepreneur in your dreams, but have never started a business? Are you an artist — a painter, let’s say — who’s never touched a canvas with a brush? If so, according to Steven Pressfield, the author of The War of Art, you live in resistance.

    Pressfield highlights that as rational and rationalizing beings, we perceive resistance coming from outside of us when we think about it first. It’s not us, but our partner, our parents, environment, bad education, our job, bosses, late public transport that is responsible for our delayed dream accomplishments — not us. There is always a reason not to do what we wish. ¹

    The truth is, there is no one else to blame but ourselves. Every time we are (self-) manipulated and talked out of our true desires, it’s because we’ve allowed it. And when I say we, what I really mean is me. I don’t possess the key to universal knowledge. I also don’t know every soul on this Earth. When I use the comfort-giving plural, I still only know what happened to me. Forgive me for that.

    That’s why I mix my own experience with research-based studies that reflect the answers of the many, or may I say, the average. My goal is to give you a subjectively objective viewpoint on why you are smarter than you think. Read it, digest it, and look at it with a critical and compassionate approach. Search for the gems that apply to you and throw out the rest.

    Back to Steven Pressfield and the concept of resistance. He claims that resistance always arises from within. People generate and maintain it. Resistance is directly proportional to the importance of your desires. The more we long for something, the more resistance we’ll feel to actually start it. It’s not like we don’t want to do it (that’s what we tell ourselves), but the time is not right now, or more knowledge, free time, or money is needed. We start rationalizing and justifying why we shouldn’t do our work. ²

    Dreaming about our dreams feels extraordinary, but delaying the achievement due to resistance feels horrible. In Dreamland, we feel good, but as soon as we switch back to reality and start thinking about the execution, we feel unhappiness. We’re bored and restless at the same time.

    Some become so depressed because of their own resistance that they convince themselves they aren’t good at anything; they aren’t talented, don’t have ideas, or aren’t worthy of a better life. The reality is that they have ideas, but resist trying them out because they don’t have positive feedback from previous successes.

    Why? Most likely because they didn’t try to do something that defines them, something they wanted for themselves, instead of for the sake of others. They could interpret they’re not meant for a higher purpose.

    To some extent, this is true.

    People are not born with unlimited choices. They come to live with a specific purpose, to fulfill their personal destiny. However, we can’t be anything we want to be. For example, I’d love to be an acknowledged singer, but unless I perform for a deaf audience, I have zero chances of accomplishing it. That’s fine. It means it’s not my job. I have another calling.

    Your Personal Excellence

    We are who we are born to be, and we’re stuck with it. Our task is not to constantly fight against ourselves, wishing for something else, but to find and accept who we are and make the most of it.

    Everyone is gifted — but some people never open their package!

    Wolfgang Riebe

    You may never become a world-class performer or athlete. Maybe you don’t even aim for these titles. However, you can become your best self in something. That personal excellence can grant you a good life, fulfillment, money, and peace of mind. As sure as there are stars in the sky, you have something in you that you can build your future on. Don’t take that number literally. It might not be only one thing. Most of the time, your personal excellence is the unique combination of two or three

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