Think Straight: Master Your Mind and Transform Your Life - A Practical Guide by Darius for Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Stress, and Improving Your Life and Career Paperback – 1 January 2020

The author offers a simple insight into the world of human thoughts and how to process them so that they help us execute things in everyday life with greater ease. These are things we know; but unless we put them into practice, they are of no use. Extremely useful and a hand guide to help humans think clearly. Highly recommended read.More Love and LightLakshmi 🪷

I'd posted a review a while back but was rejected by amazon saying I shared a third-party link. That party link was from goodreads, which is currently owned by Amazon itself. LOL! 🤪 I posted the entire book review copy-pasted from that site below.Product-wise the book is made of cheap materials as expected from price category and is a steal for the buck. However, byte-size reassuring chapters of this book is good for quick read. Price was 134₹ back in January 30th but increased to 149₹ now(March 20).My review on goodreads:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A self-help book. Was recommended by our manager during a recent scrum call.This one is a quick read. Or can be read slowly or read as reference whenever required.This book is short and to the point. Very few scientific papers mentioned in this book. Chapters are lectures from personal experience.Book can be treated as ready reckoner or refresher after reading bigger self-books like "Thinking, Fast and Slow " by Daniel Kahneman, or one of the books on pragmatic thinking mentioned by the author of this book at the end.Last year, I'd read "Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing" by Andrew Smart. It emphasized the time to relax and let the brain do the thinking. He emphasized the "Default Mode Network", that gets activated when we're idle. This idea is briefly surfaced, though not exactly, on chapters like "No More Quick Decisions." But majority of chapters in THINK STRAIGHT are against trusting what mind tells you without scientific backing.At the end of the book, the author has ridiculed scientific theories as useless to day-to-day life and even suggested that scientists have "wasted their time on abstract ideas and theories." This was a quote by William James in 19th century who has not witnessed the prowess of theoretical physicists and their applications of theories in 20th century. Including such quotes will lead to wrong impression of thinking minds like scientists and philosophers for the future generations. Granted, scientific theories are not useful for day-to-day life and also his audience, but there are others who are knowledge workers and need their mind to work a lot. Shouldn't give an outdated opinion demoralizing a section of society, who's work might be beneficial to human society and planet earth indirectly.Will go through this book again for general motivation on training the brain to focus on important things, though I don't agree with some parts of the book.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Helps a lot in daily life

There is nothing big in it,most probably you all experienced the things in your life what this book noted,it just codified everything in a book.But yeah,its short and crisp it wont take your much time.

Actual I am trying to make a habit to read atleast one page in the book per day but successfully I have not follow my habit😅 and had a goal to read some chapters atleast in a week this time I have achieved ✊.What makes to choose this book??In the beginning to build an habit to achieve any goal first we need to been focused and I have searched for a book to stop overthinking, overcome from the negative thoughts as we all have this problems 😂. Impressed a lot for Title and diagrams of the book and decided to purchase this book.With very curiosity started reading as this is my first book. At the beginning felt I got the right book at right time connected very much for every content and examples from the authors life🙂. In every chapter clearly shared his experience how he overcome from the thinking unnecessary things and what steps he have taken to make things organised to achieve his goals. Will have the lot of chapters with short and crisp Motivative notes. Some things feels funny (like taking Quick Decisions)but with out knowing our self will do in our daily life.One of favourite chapter if MY MONEY RULES which is very important thing in our personal life and I have connected for this chapter. Definitely our thinking will get changed towards the things will do and the decisions we are taking. This book completely about journey of the author and complete his thinking process of achieving his goals.Some times will feel we are getting very short summary from this book and will get very few examples. For the people who don't have habit of reading books like me it's good to start with this book.

One more life changing book foundDifferent angle of thinkingAn advice from a friendMore insights for life .

A good read. Definitely helped me to take a step back and march from chaos to clarity. A simple but deep reading.

A little mixed thoughts . But overall need to read more then once to understand full concept. It's a nice book