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Effective thinking

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The book “The 5 elements of effective thinking” describes what fundamental elements related to effective thinking. It is a thought provoking way to provoke thought. The analogy is the hero in a movie is usually a person who change the most. To be able to reap the most out of the book, you will need the following strategy :

Listen

Do the exercise

Make it second nature

The first element is earth : ground your thinking. What it means is to understand simple things deeply. Focus on solving the simpler problem. Try to declutter and see what is possible.

Procrastination test 

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Finally the book have a small test to find out whether you are having a high risk of procrastination or more resilience towards it. Score yourself from 1 to 10 on the following :

  1. Conscientiousness: whether you are responsible, competence, efficient, follow though 
  2. Emotional instable: means you are easily being influence by things surround you 
  3. Impulsiveness :anxiety, tense, depression, shy, and moody, usually act before thinking 
  4. Self advocacy : you have a clear desire 
  5. Self esteem : having self worth 
  6. Socially prescribe perfectionism

If you sum up the procrastination risk score (item 2, 3 and 6) tog can compare them against your resilience scores (item 1, 4 and 5) you  will have some guidance on where you are leaning towards and be able to adjust to combat procrastination.