Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
-Henry David Thoreau
To most people the word success and the word money are synonymous they want success that is spelled $ucce$$.
Deductive reasoning
Accurate thinking involves tow fundamentals. First, in order for you to think accurately you must separate facts from mere information. There is much "information" available to you that is not base of facts. Second, you must separate facts into two classes. The important and the unimportant, or the relevant and the irrelevant.
All the facts that you can use in the attainment of your definite chief aim are important and relevant, all that you cannot use are unimportant and irrelevant. It is mainly the neglect of some to make this distinction that so widely separates those people who appear to have equal ability and those who have had equal opportunity.
Study the type of person who is guided entirely by what they hear the type who is influenced by gossip; who accepts, without analysis, all that they read or hear in the news, and who judges others by what their enemies, competitors, and contemporaries say about them.
Science is Organized Knowledge.
Wisdom is Organized Life.
-Immanuel Kant
From among your circle of acquaintances, pick out one of this type as an example to keep in mind while we are on this subject observe that this person usually begins conversation. with phrases such as "I see by the papers.." or "They say.." The accurate thinker knows that the newspaper are not always accurate in their reports, and that what "they say" usually carries more falsehood than truth.
In searching for facts it is often necessary to gather them through the knowledge and experience of others. It then become necessary to carefully examine both the evidence submitted and the person from whom the evidence comes. When the evidence is such that it affects the interest of the witness who is giving it, scrutinize it all the more carefully. Witnesses who have an interest in the evidence often yield to the temptation to color and misuse it to protect that interest.
If one person slanders another, those remarks should be accepted with some caution, for it is a common human tendency for people to find nothing but evil in those they do not like. Anyone who has reached the degree of Accurate Thinking that enables them to speak of their enemy without exaggerating that person's faults and minimizing their virtues is the exception and the rule.
Before you can become an accurate thinker, you must understand and make allowance for the fact that the moment a man or woman begins to assume Leadership in any walk of life, the slanderers begin to circulate rumors and innuendos reflecting on his or her character.
No matter how fine one's character, or what service that person may be rendering to the world, no one can escape the notice of those misguided people who delight in destroying instead of building.
As an accurate thinker, it is both your privilege and your duty to avail yourself of facts, even though you must go out your way to get them. If you permit yourself to be swayed by all manner of information that comes to your attention, you will never become an accurate thinker. And if you do not think accurately, you cannot be sure of attaining your definite chief aim in life.
Many have gone down to defeat because, due to their prejudice and hatred, they underestimated the virtues of their enemies or competitors. The eyes of accurate thinkers see facts not delusions of prejudice, hate, and envy.
"I do not believe that I can afford to deceive others. I know that I cannot afford to deceive myself." This must be the motto of the accurate thinker.
-Henry David Thoreau
To most people the word success and the word money are synonymous they want success that is spelled $ucce$$.
Deductive reasoning
Accurate thinking involves tow fundamentals. First, in order for you to think accurately you must separate facts from mere information. There is much "information" available to you that is not base of facts. Second, you must separate facts into two classes. The important and the unimportant, or the relevant and the irrelevant.
All the facts that you can use in the attainment of your definite chief aim are important and relevant, all that you cannot use are unimportant and irrelevant. It is mainly the neglect of some to make this distinction that so widely separates those people who appear to have equal ability and those who have had equal opportunity.
Study the type of person who is guided entirely by what they hear the type who is influenced by gossip; who accepts, without analysis, all that they read or hear in the news, and who judges others by what their enemies, competitors, and contemporaries say about them.
Science is Organized Knowledge.
Wisdom is Organized Life.
-Immanuel Kant
From among your circle of acquaintances, pick out one of this type as an example to keep in mind while we are on this subject observe that this person usually begins conversation. with phrases such as "I see by the papers.." or "They say.." The accurate thinker knows that the newspaper are not always accurate in their reports, and that what "they say" usually carries more falsehood than truth.
In searching for facts it is often necessary to gather them through the knowledge and experience of others. It then become necessary to carefully examine both the evidence submitted and the person from whom the evidence comes. When the evidence is such that it affects the interest of the witness who is giving it, scrutinize it all the more carefully. Witnesses who have an interest in the evidence often yield to the temptation to color and misuse it to protect that interest.
If one person slanders another, those remarks should be accepted with some caution, for it is a common human tendency for people to find nothing but evil in those they do not like. Anyone who has reached the degree of Accurate Thinking that enables them to speak of their enemy without exaggerating that person's faults and minimizing their virtues is the exception and the rule.
Before you can become an accurate thinker, you must understand and make allowance for the fact that the moment a man or woman begins to assume Leadership in any walk of life, the slanderers begin to circulate rumors and innuendos reflecting on his or her character.
No matter how fine one's character, or what service that person may be rendering to the world, no one can escape the notice of those misguided people who delight in destroying instead of building.
As an accurate thinker, it is both your privilege and your duty to avail yourself of facts, even though you must go out your way to get them. If you permit yourself to be swayed by all manner of information that comes to your attention, you will never become an accurate thinker. And if you do not think accurately, you cannot be sure of attaining your definite chief aim in life.
Many have gone down to defeat because, due to their prejudice and hatred, they underestimated the virtues of their enemies or competitors. The eyes of accurate thinkers see facts not delusions of prejudice, hate, and envy.
"I do not believe that I can afford to deceive others. I know that I cannot afford to deceive myself." This must be the motto of the accurate thinker.
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