Being smart in school doesn’t guarantee success. How you think is more important than what you know.
Changing your thinking to think like a winner is harder to do than having more knowledge.
The thinking needs to be right in order to apply knowledge in the most effective way. The first step, for anyone who wants to be successful, is not learning more about the subject, it’s to think success.
Success thinking, like anything else, can be learned through books and association. It will require some change of habits.
Success thinking is knowing you don’t know everything and actively looking to find out what it is.
If you think that you know everything, and you don’t like the result you’re having, stop listening to yourself. How you think got you the result you have today. If you want different result, you need to do something different. Start by changing how you think.
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Originally posted - November 2010