Creativity & Problem Solving (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

ELEVEN

Practice Two Approaches to Thinking

The way you think either inhibits or liberates your inborn creativity. Your particular thinking style is learned, starting in early childhood, usually as the result of imitating one or both parents. You learn how to think the way your parents think when you are too young to be aware of what is happening.

Different styles of thinking are usually survival or coping mechanisms. They are developed unconsciously and unthinkingly as a response to the uncertainties and unpredictability of the world around you. The good news is that because these thinking styles have been learned, they can be unlearned as well. You can, with continual practice, actually override or cancel out an unhelpful way of thinking with ...