Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

by Darius Foroux

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

“You become what you think about all day long.”

If we want to think straight at all times, we must stay grounded, look at facts, listen to other people’s perspectives, and only then draw practical conclusions.

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“I know one thing: That I know nothing,”

“I think, therefore I am.”

His most important idea is that we should question the source of our beliefs, not the belief itself. Because most of our beliefs are based on our or other people’s perception.

Thoughts should serve a useful purpose. If they don’t, they’re useless. That’s straight thinking.

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

The point is that there are multiple ways to achieve your goals. Also, if everyone is doing one thing, that often means you shouldn’t.

If you want the dots to connect in the future, you have to make sure you form dots in your brain. The only way you form dots is by learning, doing, making mistakes, reflecting, or anything you can do to feed your brain with the input it needs to give you the output you want.

“Good things come to those who wait,”

It’s better to be aware of your thoughts and decide what you will ignore, and what you will give importance to.

Only think about things you can control. That automatically eliminates about 99% of your thoughts because there’s very little you control in life.

Well, sometimes you just can’t find facts, or you have to make a quick decision. In those (very rare) cases I prefer gut feeling. Whatever you do, never waste your thoughts on other people’s ill-informed opinions and guesses.

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”

Money is a replaceable resource. When you’re out of it, you can earn it back. You can’t say the same for time. Don’t spend too much time thinking about money.

It’s not this or that in life. You can have this and that.

But the most important lesson I’ve learned was that you don’t regret what you did in life, you regret what you didn’t do.

look back, but don’t stare for too long. Life happens now.

Just sit down, be one with your thoughts, observe them, and then, ignore them. That’s all there is to meditation.

Would you change the way you lived if a scientist proved how the earth was created?

“We can never hope for absolute proof of anything. All our decisions are bets on what the universe is today, and what it will do tomorrow.”

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”