Get Smart By Brain Tracy Summary

1-Sentence-Summary: Get Smart reveals how you can access more of your brain’s power through simple, actionable brain training techniques that’ll spark your creativity, make you look for the positive and help you achieve your goals faster.

The first step to unlocking your brain’s potential is to change your perspective.

​Imagine you have a bank account with a balance of one million dollars. Now imagine you can only access $20,000 of that million. That’d be a pretty frustrating situation, right? But that’s pretty much how little access you have to the wealth of brainpower inside your head. In the past, it was thought that the average person used around 10 percent of his mental capacity, but, according to more recent findings, it’s actually closer to 2 percent.

Here’s the good news: this treasure trove of potential power is just waiting to be unlocked.

Exactly how much potential is there? Well, we all have around 100 billion brain cells, and each one of these cells is connected to about 20,000 other cells.

According to brain expert Tony Buzan this means that if everyone could use all of their brain cells, each person could generate more ideas than there are molecules in the known universe!

The key message in this book:

There are good and bad ways to use your brain. You can have a distracted and unfocused mind that only wants to learn about things that reinforce your negative preconceptions, or you can have a sharp and creative mind. The latter sees the positive things in life and finds success by being inquisitive, adaptable and innovative.

See the chance in every challenge.

Take a moment to think about your biggest problem. Now, instead of thinking of it as a problem, try to think of it as a gift – an opportunity to learn something about yourself. Maybe it’ll provide insight into your behavior and provide a chance for you to change the future and be more successful. Remember the words of Henry Ford:

“Failure and hardships are chances to start all over again and to make it better.”

Success in the modern world requires a flexible mind that continues learning.

Our world is constantly evolving. Albert Einstein demonstrated this back in 1952, when he gave his students at Princeton University a test that they’d taken the year before. This seemed ridiculous to some people, but Einstein explained himself thusly: yes, the test contained the exact same questions, but, thanks to the many discoveries over the past year, all the answers had changed.

It’s not just the field of science that is rapidly changing, either. So, no matter who you are, it’s wise to be flexible and adaptable in your thinking.

Anyone will tell you that we’re living in one of the most tumultuous times in human history. Therefore, a sharp business mind needs to be aware of technological advancements – things such as the Kindle or the iPad. These devices revolutionized the print industry and, as a result, the massive book retailer, Borders, went out of business within a year.

To avoid a similar fate, flexible thinking is key, and you must always be prepared to adjust your business model.

The Guardian, a popular British daily newspaper, recognized the changes that were going on and knew that it needed to revitalize its online content in order to maintain its readership. So it changed its online presence, updating its website several times a day while keeping it free and accessible to readers.

To stay sharp in this fast-paced world, you also need to keep learning.

According to Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, 20 percent of the top earners in the United States achieve an annual increase in their salary of approximately 11 percent, while the other 80 percent must make do with an increase of only 3 percent.

The difference? The top 20 percent are constantly educating themselves. Sure, it’s not bad to take time off to relieve stress, but that free time shouldn’t be entirely devoted to food, drink or exercise. Reading and learning are good ways to reduce stress as well!

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