Accurate Thinking

Accurate Thinking
(Book Excerpt From)
“The Science Of Success Achievement Course”© 2009
Rick Gettle & Holly Gettle
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ACCURATE THINKING
(Free From Error – Beyond A Doubt)

The Important And The Unimportant
The Relevant And The Irrelevant

Knowledge Is Continually Compounding.

From 1700 To 1950 Man’s Knowledge Doubled = 250 Years
From 1950 To 1965 Man’s Knowledge Doubled Again = 15 Years
From 1965 To 1975 Man’s Knowledge Doubled Again = 10 Years
From 1975 To 1980 Man’s Knowledge Doubled Again = 5 Years

Knowledge Is Compounding So Fast That We Can’t Keep Up With It Anymore. We Are Overwhelmed With So Much New Information That It Is Creating Anxiety.

There Are Not Enough Hours In The Day To Keep Up With All Of This Title Wave Of Information Coming At Us Every day.

Most Professional People, Such As Doctors, Claim That 50% Of What They Know Today Will Becomes Obsolete In Five Years Or Less Because Of The New Knowledge That Overrides The Existing knowledge.

There Are People Who Want To Know Everything That Is Happening Everyday - They Become Well Informed. They Hear The Same News - Over And Over Again And Again.

How Much Of It Really Matters? How Much Of It Is Accurate? How Much Of It Is Based On Facts? How Much Is Important? How Much Is Relevant?

Accurate Thinking Involves Two Fundamentals:

The First Fundamental Is - To Think Accurately You Must Separate Facts From Mere Information. There Is A Lot Of Information Available To You That Is Not Based On Facts. We Used To Think That The World Is Flat – It Wasn’t! So, Why Bother Learning All About Something That’s Is Not Based On Fact - You Don’t Need It.

The Second Fundamental Is - You Must Separate Facts Into Two Classes: The Important And The Unimportant, Or, The Relevant And The Irrelevant. Only By So Doing Can You Think Clearly. All Facts, Which You Can Use In The Attainment Of Your Definite Chief Aim, Are Important And Relevant; All That You Cannot Use Are Unimportant And Irrelevant. Focus Only On The Things That Are Relevant And Important In Your Life. Don’t Waste Your Valuable Time On Unimportant And Irrelevant Things. Life Is Too Short.

What’s Really Relevant And Important To You
At This Particular Time In Your Life?

Think About It Now And Make A List

In The Next 90 Days, I Will Concentrate My Thoughts On The Following Things, Which Are The Most Relevant And Important To Me:

And I Will Keep My Mind Off Of These Things, Which Are Unimportant And Irrelevant:

There Is Not Enough Time In The Day To Sit And Read Everything Or To Know Everything That’s Going On And Still Have Time To Achieve Your Dreams In Life

Repetition - Hear A Lie Often Enough And You Start Believing It N

Steps To Accurate Thinking

Separate facts from fiction or hearsay evidence

Separate facts into classes, the important and the unimportant

What is an important fact? It’s any fact, which can be used to advantage in the attainment of one’s major purpose. All other facts are relatively unimportant

Opinions of which everyone except the accurate thinker has over-abundance---usually are without value, and many of them are dangerous and destructive in connection with the exercise of personal initiative because most of them are based upon bios, prejudice, intolerance, ignorance, and guess work and hearsay evidence.

No opinion is safe unless it is based upon known facts, and no one is entitled to express an opinion on any subject without reasonable assurance that it is founded on facts or reasonable hypotheses of fact

Free advice volunteered by friends and acquaintances usually is not worthy of consideration. The accurate thinker, therefore, never act upon such advice without giving it the closest scrutiny

Accurate thinkers permit no one to do their thinking for them! They often obtain facts, information an counsel from others, but they retain for themselves the privilege of acceptance or rejection of any or all of these factors

Accurate thinkers do not form opinion based upon newspaper reports because they are not sure that newspapers are always accurate in their reports. When they hear someone preface his remarks by the statement, “i see by the papers. “they promptly brand the speaker as one who has an opinion that may not be based upon facts and they refrain from being influenced by him.

Gossipers and scandal-mongers are not reliable sources from whom to procure facts on any subject, although it is well known that they inspire much of the daily thinking of many people.

Information based upon opinions and hearsay evidence is plentiful, and most of in is free, but facts have an elusive habit, and generally there is a definite price attached to them- the price of painstaking labor in examining them for accuracy.

The favorite question of the accurate thinker is “how do you know?” He demands to know the source of all that is presented to him as facts. He demands evidence of its soundness. He knows that anything which exists as a fact is capable of proof.

Some acid test to be made in separating facts from opinions

The accurate thinker scrutinizes with great care everything he reads in books or newspapers, everything he hears over the e radio or television and every statement made by others. He follows the habit of never accepting any statement as fact merely because he read it or heard it spoken. And he knows that statements bearing some portion of facts often are intentionally or carelessly colored, modified and exaggerated t o give them an erroneous meaning.

1 – Did the writer have an ulterior or self-interest motive in writing the book, other than that of imparting accurate information?
2 – Is the writer a professional propagandist whose business is that of influencing public opinion?
3 - Has the writer a profit interest in the subjects on which he writes?
4- Is the writer a person with sound judgment, and not a fanatic on the subject abut which he writes?
5 - Are there reasonably accessible sources from which the writer’s statements may be checked and verified? If so, what are they?

Before the accurate thinker accepts as facts the statements of others he endeavors to ascertain the motive, which prompted the statements, for, he knows that no one ever does anything, and seldom says anything without a definite motive.

The accurate thinker scrutinizes with unusual care all statements made by people who have obvious motives they desire to carry out through their statements, and he is equally careful about accepting as facts the statements of over – zealous people who have the habit of allowing their imagination to run wild.

The accurate thinker learns to use his own judgment, and to be cautious, no matter who may endeavor to influence him. If a statement does not harmonize with his own reasoning power, or if it is not in harmony with his experience, he holds it in abeyance for further examination.

The accurate thinker has learned that a falsehood has a peculiar way of bringing with it some form of warning; perhaps in the tone of the voice, or in the expression of the face of the speaker if it is a spoken falsehood. And it is one of the unexplained facts of psychology that written words carry with them something of a warning as to their truth or falsehood, something which corresponds precisely to the mental attitude and the belief or unbelief of the writer.

Most so-called thinking is nothing but an expression of feeling, through the emotions, and the emotions are not dependable. The accurate thinker always submits his emotional desires and decisions to his head for judiciary examination before he relies upon them as being sound, for he knows that his head is more dependable than the heart.

The accurate thinker recognizes all the facts of life, both the good and the bad, and assumes the responsibilities of separating and organizing the two, choosing those, which serve his needs, and rejecting all the others.

His opinions are the result of sober analysis and careful study of facts or dependable evidence of facts

How we come by our opinions

Opinions are plentiful. Everyone has a stock of them, but most of them are not only worthless; they are dangerous as well, for they have not been acquired by the principle of accurate thinking.

Holding opinions because one’s relatives have expressed their belief in such opinions is not accurate thinking, but it may be one of the major sources of ignorance.

Repetition - It is well known that the constant reader of any particular newspaper comes eventually to the acceptance of the views and editorial leanings of that newspaper, that is not accurate thinking, for newspapers have been known to make mistakes, and sometimes

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