Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life | Master Your Mind, Overcome Negative Thinking, and Transform Your Life | A Practical Guide to Taking Control of Your Thoughts and Achieving Success
Originally an international bestseller and now available in India for the first time, this compact guide includes a bonus chapter previously reserved for Foroux's online subscribers. It arrives with a bold opening gambit: the author claims to know something about you before you've even introduced yourself. Chances are, you're spending a worrying amount of time trapped inside your own head, spinning through worries, worst-case scenarios, and questions that go nowhere. Foroux calls this the preoccupied mind, and he's got a point. As the psychologist William James once observed, a great many people mistake the rearranging of their existing prejudices for actual thinking. That's a sobering thought. Pragmatist philosophy, which sits at the heart of this book, treats the mind as a practical instrument rather than an unruly passenger. The argument is simple but surprisingly compelling: your thoughts should serve you, not sabotage you. Foroux writes from personal experience, having spent years cycling through the same anxious mental loops, wondering what others thought of him, catastrophising about failure, questioning his own worth. Sound familiar? He's not offering abstract philosophy here. The book is deliberately brief and structured so you can return to it repeatedly, using it as a steadying point during difficult periods. The prose is direct, occasionally conversational, and refreshingly free of jargon. It won't take long to read, and that's rather the point. A short, sharp reminder that you have more control over your own thinking than you probably believe.
- Author: Darius Foroux
- Publisher: India Penguin
- Genre: Personal Development
- ISBN: 978-0143452133
- Pages: 132 pages