Introduction Starting a new job often means spending the first few weeks observing. You attend meetings, read documents, complete training, watch how colleagues work, and try to understand the company culture. Observation is important, but it is only the beginning. Many professionals make the mistake of believing that watching others work means they are learning the job. Real learning happens when you begin connecting information with action. If you want to become effective faster, do not just observe what people do. Understand why they do it, how decisions are made, and how you can apply what you learn. Go Beyond the Job Description Your job description tells you what you are responsible for, but it rarely explains how the work actually gets done. Every organization has its own processes, expectations, communication styles, and unwritten rules. Two companies can have employees with identical job titles but completely different ways of working. During your first 90 day...
Introduction
The tenth principle of Napoleon Hill's 17 principles of success is the Accurate Thinking. Accurate thinking is a mental process that helps us to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant facts. It is more than critical thinking which enables us to inspect the thoughts of others or agenda. Accurate thinking helps us to create new thoughts, new agenda or new visions. It inspires us to be proactive and not reactive. Jonas Salk’s accurate thinking helped humanity in the discovery of Polio vaccine. George Marshall’s diligent planning ensured revitalisation of Europe’s economy after Hitler's downfall. Mother Clara Hale’s idea of making Hale house provided shelter and much required care for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. None of the above mentioned achievements had materialised in the absence of accurate thinking. No one can ever achieve great things without learning to think accurately.
The Thinking Process
The accurate thinking is based upon two types of reasoning:a) Induction: The term inductive reasoning helps us to draw broader generalisation from specific information while remaining open to the fact that generalisation may not be 100% accurate.
b) Deduction: In this reasoning, specific conclusions are drawn from general logical assumptions.
We can also become accurate thinker by taking two important steps: 1. Separate facts from fictions, hearsay, opinions and unproved hypothesis. 2. Separate facts into two categories: Unimportant and important.
Napoleon Hill shared his experience while working for President Woodrow Wilson during World War 1. Napoleon asked the president “ What effect he believed WW1 would have on civilisation?” The answer of Woodrow Wilson was very important and he said, “ I can’t answer your question because I don’t have facts and figures with me”. If we also remember these golden words of Woodrow Wilson then we will make distance from biases, prejudices and emotional feelings.
7 Rules of Accurate Thinking
1. Never accept any data or opinion presented by any person. Always check the source of the data and verify its accuracy.2. Cross verify the free advice as it is generally based upon false premises.
3. Be alert whenever you hear bad words about others. Bad words are always biased in nature.
4. Whenever you sort some information about others then do not disclose your own inclination or perspective. People have a general tendency of pleasing others and they will change facts accordingly.
5. Each and every thing have a proof and in case proof is not available then it is safer to forget that fact.
6. There is a miraculous thing about the false and truth. We can sense the truth and false by our subconscious mind. Hence accept this fact and build necessary intuitive faculty to sense what is false and what is truth.
7. Inculcate the habit of asking “How do you know?” Whenever someone project some unbelievable information.
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