The Practicing Mind

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Developing focus and discipline in your lifeMaster any skill or challenge by learning to love the processIn The Practicing Mind, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to acquire skills for any aspect of life, be it business, parenting or sports. It has always been about trial and error and practice. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk or tie our shoes. So why, as adults, do we give up on a goal when we don?t succeed at first? Sterner has an answer to this: we have forgotten the principles of practice ? the process of picking a goal and applying steady effort to reach it. The methods Sterner teaches show that proper practice isn?t drudgery on the way to mastery, but in fact, a fulfilling process in and of itself, one that builds discipline and clarity.You?ve just got to love the process!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jaico Publishing House; 2011th edition (1 November 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 164 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9386867109
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9386867100
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 458 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 5 x 25 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

Reviewer: மின்மினி
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Taking a new hobby?! Take this book as well!
Review: Good book. Author tries to reinforce same point in multiple places. I think that’s how a good book should be built. He was on track on the title. Definitely will help to stick to our habit and get better at it.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mind blowing
Review: For me its worth reading,just awesome🤩🤩🤩 but the quality of the book is average.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Unlearn and relearn this book….masterpiece
Review: As I use the wisdom given in this book, I found out that it’s working for me. And I encourage everyone to adapt to this new mindset for goal setting and goal achieving.

Reviewer: ROHIT KUMAR SINGH
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book
Review: If you want to know why someone is more successful putting limited time compared to someone who invested a lot of time on the same thing still not got the success which he/she expected.Process is important then product.Get your copy now.

Reviewer: Ankur Borthakur
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Thanks for delivering faster
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Reviewer: Didn’t expect much from the book but the book is actually simple and efective gud book
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Simple and effective
Review: Gud and simple book

Reviewer: Sivakumar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book to read
Review: I would recommend all age people to read, especially for those starting their career. Author has made very interesting read by his life example and enables us to be more focused and more productive. I strongly recommend

Reviewer: Aditya
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good but Clichéd
Review: I saw this book on Amazon recommendations, checked the reviews and brought it right away. It indeed talks about how to train your mind on a way to mastery.Do not buy if you read more than one book a year and have read stuff like Goldman, Gladwell, Robert Greene etc. Instead of making you feel like somebody expert in a subject is sharing his advice, it begins to feel like and old man who wants to crunch all his life advice in a long train journey. In most high quality contemporary books on this subject, the authors tend to justify their advice through numerous citations to show that they are providing well-studied science based advice. Sterner instead uses examples from TV shows.Here’re a few examples that should indicate whether this book will suit your level:1. The example covered in Bhagwat Gita about horses, chariot, reins as an analogy about mind control is present in a more shallow way and repeated often times to bore someone who has read it in better writing style in other books2. The writer is a Piano repairer who has tuned piano for top pianists in the world. He keeps bringing stories in which he is has to tune pianos in multiple cities in half a day, he slows down and his work becomes better.3. The summary can be explained in four ‘S’ words presented by the writer – Simplify, Small, Short, Slow. This is one of the few things I liked about the book.The book is a quick read and I finished it in a couple of hours. I feel the whole book could have been crunched to a couple of short blog posts. If you can stand blatant self-promotion, citation to TV shows, repetitie stories, go for it.

Reviewer: Atal Burhani
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: You’re gonna have to read this book a few times to really get everything out from itPacked with knowledge, the author uses personal experiences to illustrate his point but does it in a way that adds to the story.

Reviewer: Jason Chan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I am sure Thomas Sterner did not write this book trying to cure the world that is under a digital addiction epidemic. But i found the book’s techniques and his personal story help me in my journey to overcoming my digital addition. This book is very much the author’s personal journey to becoming better. We are all better when we are detached from our egos; better parents, better artist , better person.. just better. Take your time reading this book, enjoy the artist’s personal transformation.

Reviewer: Tim Arendse
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Buy this book if:- you have trouble staying focused- practice makes you frustrated or bored- you find yourself disliking certain parts of your day (check out the part on going slow; it will change your life)- you want to stop starting overThe writing in this book makes me want to try new things because I finally feel like I can succeed. I can enjoy the activity, even when it’s tough. If you’re a chronic quitter (a giver-upper), this book is worth your time. The paperback is a brisk read and the audio book is only four hours.Whatever you do, don’t just read this book and put it back on your shelf. Read it again. Go back to it when things get frustrating. Wear it out to the point that a library wouldn’t take it as a donation.This book teaches a skill that will make your entire life better. The skill of practice.

Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muitos conceitos apresentados já eram familiares. É um livro de leitura fácil e que nos faz lembrar muitos conceitos importantes que, muitas vezes se perdem pelo caminho.

Reviewer: David Glober
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: What a wonderful book. Whether you stay at home, work a routine job, or have a professional “practice” this is a book that can help you get more out of life, calmly and effectively.—My favorite passage is where he talks about having so many urgent and consequential deadlines that he can’t possibly do them all in time, and his income and career will suffer – he does a 180 and s-l-o-w-s down however instead of hyperventilating and speeding up. And gets done sooner! With less stress and so much more peace of mind.Reading this you would have every right to be skeptical; all i can say is i’ve tried it. I found myself in a similar situation – everything on the line, big consequences to several things at once, not enough time – and suddenly remembered this firsthand example shared by the author…. and i slowed down.And like the author, i also got the several things done all at once, just inside all deadlines. So you might try this yourself if you’re super jammed.If this works – and i’m suggesting along with the author that it does – it doesn’t necessarily mean go super slow all the time and in all circumstances. Or to try to be absolutely frictionless – a certain level of stress keeps us alert and alive and can even be fun. But this is about circumstances in which there is so much stress it becomes clear that the stress itself has reached levels that are – counterproductive. And it helps smooth out the ride in general overall to follow this practice.Again, why would it work to slow down when all indications and pressures are that it’s time to speed up?1. The energy burned up in stress is maintained to get the work completed. Slowing down in such a situation allows you to be completely immersed in the project or assignment and all of its details and how they piece together.2. Plus you’re not wasting time and energy making mistakes and then making up for the mistakes like when allowing yourself to feel pressured and rushed. You move with the assurance that some one won’t also say, oh well, you got it done on time but the work was crap.3. When there’s a lot of extra adrenalin and cortisol it can actually be corrosive to your body. Not being caught up in that kind of negative cycle allows you to do your best work.So all of your resources get engaged in doing your best work in good time.—A great firsthand account woven with delightful perspectives. Easily readable. You can learn a lot in one read-through but you may want to read at least once again. Could be one of those books to review every year or two.This is a life changer without telling you what to do or how to do it. Got another book with all kinds of incremental goals and cartoon images designed to motivate, but read this first, and the quality of this one was so much greater.Doesn’t preach, doesn’t pump you up, doesn’t yell, kind of an antidote for all the rushing and pushing in our society today, and best of all just speaks from experience.The title is very fitting – it’s about a mind that understands that all effort and learning is a practice in the moment – and it’s about engaging the mind itself also as a practice.—Would give it 6 stars if i could.

4.5

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