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A 14 page book review of John C. Maxwell's Thinking For A Change. The reviewer offers an extensive and detailed summary and analysis of this book, addressing it chapter by chapter. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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idea" and then gives "an example from history of that idea" as it can be applied to work or life."1 This pattern is evident in his text Thinking For A
Change, as the first three chapters set the stage for the authors tutorial by "establishing the purpose of thinking."2 The following book review offers comprehensive summary and analysis of Maxwells
principal points in this text. Maxwell begins with two brief prefatory sections. The first of these is entitled "Forethought: the difference that really makes a difference."3 This section presents
the overall theme of this book, which is that "Successful people think different from unsuccessful people."4 This serves to introduce the reader to the eleven dichotomies in thinking that constitute
the bulk of the book. This is followed by "Thoughts about thinking," which presents five insightful quotations about thinking from various scholars. Collectively these two sections serve to entice the
reader into delving further into the book. Part I is entitled "Change your thinking and change your life." The first chapter in this section offers the reader a discussion
of what constitutes "good thinking." To illustrate this, Maxwell draws upon the example of his father, a man who was born with a natural "negative bent" to his thinking.5 However,
the authors father observed that successful people tended to have positive thoughts not only about themselves, but also of others. He copied this and found that positive thinking changed him,
inspired him, and he went onto to become a college president.6 This anecdote leads into one of the authors principal themes, which is that people control their thoughts; emotions come
from thoughts; therefore it is possible to control emotions through thought processes.7 In the remainder of this chapter, Maxwell draws on anecdotal evidence, as well as previous scholarship to
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