Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

LOOK FOR IDEAS EVERYWHERE
When you attend a seminar or a lecture given by an expert who is
sharing some of the most current ideas in his or her field, you will
often receive a bombardment of new insights that you can use to
improve parts of your life. Many people’s lives have been completely
changed as the result of attending a single lecture given by a single
intelligent person who gave them a single insight that was the key to
their future.
Imagine what would happen if you attended courses, seminars,
and lectures on a regular basis.You would be continually bombard-
ing your mind with new ideas that would keep your mind alert and
aware, and keep your creative juices flowing.
Creative people are constantly reading, not only in their own
fields but in other fields as well. They read primarily nonfiction.
They subscribe to a variety of magazines and newspapers. They are
continually scanning through the tables of contents and through the
critical articles.
Always read with a pen or highlighter in your hand. Even better,
learn how to speed-read so that you can scan material at a thousand
words a minute, or faster. Speed-reading is a skill, like riding a bicy-
cle, that anyone can learn with a few hours of application. Forever
after, you will be able to process more information than perhaps
you ever imagined possible.