With The Five Elements of Effective Thinking, you’ll learn how to think effectively and realize your full potential. Using as an organizing principle the four elements – earth, fire, air and water – the authors explain many techniques for improving the way in which we think. With the addition of a fifth element, change, they demonstrate how adopting the right attitude helps to bring about lasting, positive change.

1. Earth: True mastery isn’t about doing difficult things, but about mastering the basics.
2. Earth: To find a problem’s true essence, look only at what you can see, and identify what is missing.
3. Fire: You have to fail before you can progress and truly succeed.
4. Fire: Embrace an attitude of being willing to intentionally fail.
5. Air: Force yourself to ask questions, even when you might already know the answer.
6. Air: To find the right solutions, ask the right questions.
7. Water: Ideas don’t flow from a void, but are generated from previous ideas.
8. Water: New ideas and solutions should be viewed as a beginning, not as an end.
9. To implement the four elements of thinking in your life, you must be willing to change.

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