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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN num: 9780471414643
ISBN number: 0471414646
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: March 29, 2002
Publishing house: Wiley
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'The quantum leap beyond positive thinking, Optimal Thinking offers a whole new way of looking at life, business, and relationships. This prescriptive self-improvement book is filled with superlative information for every type of reader.'
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Unfortunately I bought this book based on the high ratings as well as the "praise" from some of my favorite writers - Ken Blanchard, Nathaniel Brandon, and Brian Tracy. What a mistake. There is absolutely nothing useful in the book. Maybe if I were 12 or 14 and just starting out on the road to self-improvement I might find a couple things interesting, but I would need to wade through a ton of BS to find it. I'm extremely disappointed. In fact I threw it in the trash rather than saving it for a garage sale just to put it out of its misery and save some reader from having to subject his or her self to the worthless content, and maybe end up throwing a rock through my window because I charged a nickel for it.
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Without a question this book takes your thinking to a higher Level.
When I was in the initial stages of my career change in 2002 this book was a great tool and inspiration. Now as I take my career to the subsequent level in the recommendation age I have read this work once again. The pages here are of great assistance.
The optimal who, what, how, why and when questions on pages 229 to 130 are precious. The "optimal questions for the present moment" are timeless. This book is the ultimately and optimally one of the best self assessment tools available. Plan to purchase this work. There will be no regrets.
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This book was a real eye opener for me. I've read hundreds and hundreds of books and came across many
great ones. A lot of these books had to do with
self-improvement and positive thinking. Even though
I believe in being positive, I somehow always felt
there's something missing and now I finally know
what it was.
It's not about being positive alone, that's just
not good enough, it might actually be totally wrong sometimes.
It's about being optimal, which means you're looking
for what's really going on and how to make the best
out of any situation.
Do yourself a HUGE favor and give Optimal Thinking a chance! I know you won't regret it! Actually this
book deserves 6 stars, so come on and get it.
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Optimal Thinking is the mental tool to maximize thoughts, strategies, execution, and success. This book differentiates suboptimal thinking from Optimal Thinking and shows you how to use this peak form of thinking in a consistent manner. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to make the most of their life by making the most of their thinking. In addition, I recommend Optimal thinking as the foundation for optimizing personal and business relationships and any corporate culture. And finally, I recommend Optimal Thinking: 100-Day Audio-CD Program for Permanent Results to make optimal thinking second nature.
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This book opens with a questionnaire. Questionnaires are a valid tool in the social sciences, if used properly, and I happily wrote my answers down.
The questionnaire is followed by Chapter One, which asks, "Do you enjoy the best life has to offer . . .?" I further learned that this book "is for all who want to be their best and enjoy the best in life."
Although it was never explicitly stated, I quickly learned that this fuzzy concept of Optimal Thinking means using certain words: best, most, smartest, greatest, highest, outstanding, extraordinary, ultimate, perfect, etc., as well as optimize and maximize. Glickman never explicitly defines these concepts but she does contrast them sharply with mediocrity. Mediocre persons accept suboptimal, submaximal, and less-than-best situations. She teaches us to always ask ourselves what the best is and to go for it.
I tried working with Glickman. I really did. I assiduously created a notebook and wrote answers to all her questions and exercises. But by page 46, the end of Chapter Two, I threw in the towel. She had trained me to ask myself what the best use of my time was and plowing through this book was truly not it. This book is a hodge-podge of self-help truisms--a desultory series of exhortations to be our best.
I am writing this review not to damn Glickman, who no doubt is a well-meaning person genuinely wishing to help others, but to let Amazon customers know that there is a better alternative to this book. Read _The Feeling Good Handbook_, by David D. Burns. I very first read it about three years ago, not expecting much from a work with such a sappy title. This book truly changed me. It changed me a lot. And for the better.
Burns's book has serious research behind it demonstrating that the methods it recommends have helped many, many people. The problem with Burns's book is that it takes a serious investment of time by the reader. It only works if you work. By work, I mean doing all the written exercises. I did them and I was glad I did. By doing those exercises I became a happier, more efficient person, better able to accomplish my goals.
One nugget that I have gleaned from Burns and others (_The Now Habit_, by Neil Fiore) is that demands for perfectionism are often self-defeating. As Voltaire once said, "the perfect is the enemy of the good." If you set yourself up to be satisfied only with the best, the highest, the ultimate, the perfect, you will certainly spend most of your life dissatisfied. That might be OK. You might decide that finding the perfect solution to global warming is more important than your own personal satisfaction. But I don't believe that you are more likely to find that solution if you are a perfectionist. I think you are more likely to find that solution if you are able to celebrate your successes and build on them. Be happy with the good and strive to make it better.
I believe that perfectionism is a trait that holds many people back from being their potential. I see Glickman's book as doing nothing to cure people of their perfectionist flaws.
It was because Burns's book was so good that I have been on the lookout for other books equally as good. That is why I purchased Optimal Thinking. The best thing you can do is not read _Optimal Thinking_ by Rosalene Glickman.
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