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The “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” book uncovers some of the harsh truths about overthinking habits that we often ignore in our lives. This is an eye-opener book that will make you aware of overthinking habits and also suggest steps to stay away from them.
Author: Joseph Nguyen Cover
About Author
Joseph Nguyen is a life coach, founder of many businesses, and spiritual thought leader. He is also the writer of the book “Don’t believe everything you think”. He devotes most of his time to teaching, speaking, writing, and sharing spiritual thoughts with people. He helps people to discover their true purpose in life. He helps people to end psychological suffering and unlock their hidden infinite potential.
“Don’t believe everything you think” Book Summary
The book clears the concept of thinking. How positive thinking takes us to success and negative thinking leads us nowhere. It is not possible to stop thinking but we can reduce the time we spend thinking. Slowly it will get smaller and smaller with time.
To fight negative thinking, we need to follow morning rituals. Although the book is a short read but full of learnings
11 Most Powerful Learnings From the “Don’t Believe Everything You Think a Book”
· Pain is inescapable, but the way we act to the events or situations that happen in our lives depend on us, which will decide whether we suffer or not.
· Our feelings do not come from external events but from our thinking about that event. The main source of suffering is our thinking.
· If you want to gain peace and happiness, then you need to stop listening to your mind all the time.
· A thought takes no energy or effort, it is something that happens naturally. While thinking is the act of continuously thinking about our thoughts. You don’t need to entertain every thought that enters your mind but when you do, that is thinking. Thinking is the main source of our psychological stress and suffering.
· The power of negative emotions we experience is directly proportional to the amount of thinking we are doing at that moment. While the intensity of positive emotions is inversely proportional to the number of thinking we are doing at that time. In short, the less we think in the moment, the more positive emotions we experience during that time.
· It is not possible to stop thinking completely. But we can reduce the time by being a little more conscious. Slowly it gets smaller and smaller. Eventually, we will learn to live in a blissful state away from the clutches of negative thinking.
· The state of top performance for humans can be described as a state of non-thinking.
· When we stop unwanted thinking, we will fall back to our real nature and begin to achieve our goals through inspiration.
· Negative thoughts are the root cause of our suffering. Treat it with love and slowly it will dissipate and you will return to a true state of peace and happiness.
· Start following your intuition and slowly you will begin to see miracles happening in your life.
· To create new thoughts and ideas you need to create space. This space can only be created by remaining in the non-thinking.
Three Best Quotes From the Book “Don’t Believe Everything You Think”
· Thought creates and thinking destroys
· We function and perform our best and embody our full potential the moment we enter a state of non-thinking.
· I think, therefore I suffer
Who Should Read It?
This book is specially written for people who have a habit of overthinking. I believe anyone can read this book since most of us overthink a few things. Overthinking hinders us from achieving real success in life.
You will enjoy this book if
· You want to overcome your habit of overthinking
· You want to feel peace and happiness in life
· If you want to achieve your goals
Don’t Believe Everything You Think – Book Review
Why your thinking is the beginning and end of suffering?
You will get all the answers to the above questions after reading this book.
This book is based on the philosophy that is taught by almost all major religions of the world. But sometimes we know things but don’t follow them. Author Joseph Nguyen has used simple examples from religion and real-life instances to explain the concept of overthinking.
The book is written in easy language. There are many practical and easy-to-follow steps mentioned in the book. These steps will help you to fight your negative thinking and fears.
Practical techniques and tips given by the author are simple and easy to apply in real life to overcome the habit of overthinking.
This book will guide you to uncover the secret power that is inside you and this power will help you to attain real peace and happiness.
In this book, you will discover that the root cause of all suffering in the world is our negative thinking. The Author Joseph Nguyen also described the way to end negative thinking. This book is for everyone who is suffering psychologically every day.
In the first chapter author, Joseph Nguyen mentioned clearly that the main reason for our thinking is suffering. As the book progresses it will step-by-step unveil the different ways to fight our negative thinking. One of the biggest enemies of our life that hinders us from achieving peace and success. In the end, you will know the success formula to attain ultimate peace.
The book throws light on overthinking and motivates me to fight my overthinking, but things are discussed in less detail.
This book helped me stay focused on my goals and dreams. This book is an eye-opener for people who have over-thinking habits.
I will recommend the book “Don’t Believe Everything You Think“ to people who are suffering from overthinking habits. Beginners who want to develop reading habits can also read this book. This is a very good book for beginners as it is a short read and the vocabulary is also way too easy to grasp.
Anyone who wants to improve and achieve success can read the Don’t Believe Everything You Think book.
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