As A Man Thinketh: Ultra Condensed Cliffnotes #20

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Below are my personal notes of As A Man Thinketh. These highlights were what I used to write my personal development book, Wiser Next Week, a condensation of many different self improvement books

Character:

What is our experience of life, but the sum total of our thoughts over time? We literally are our thoughts
You are the master of your own mind, the author of your own character, and thus the maker of your own destiny

Circumstances:

Character is simply the sum of our thoughts. And character manifests itself in our environment and through our circumstances. So, the outer condition of your life is always a reflection of your inner state
We are responsible for where we are. Who we are has brought us here
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts, bad fruit

Suffering is to teach, strengthen and purify
You cannot directly choose your circumstances, but by changing your thoughts, you can indirectly reshape your circumstances
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us

Lasting success cannot be built on the backs of discontented, disloyal, overworked, underproductive employees

Health:

Diet and exercise begin in the mind. What will you eat? How will you move your body? Your dominant thoughts determine the answers
There is no better medicine than cheerful thought for curing and preventing bodily ills

Purpose:

Concentrate on doing your job as well as you can, however insignificant it may seem
This will develop and expand your ability to take on greater goals in the future

Success:

Those who give little accomplish little, those who give much accomplish much, those who give the most become the greatest

Visions:

The ignorant, seeing only the outward results and not the internal processes behind them, chalk up everything to chance and fate
They don’t see the struggles, they only see the success