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Summary: How to rise above being good or great
Review: I have been a top executive for two Fortune 100 companies during the past 23 years. Prior to reading Optimal Thinking, I managed to stay ahead of the internal competition by improving my leadership skills and working on myself to be a better person. I have read most of the best-selling business and self-improvement books. Optimal Thinking is the best book I have come across--an essential universal resource. Optimal Thinking IS the missing link to peak performance. Having read this book, attended an Optimal Thinking for Leaders seminar and implemented Optimal Thinking in my daily life, I am now proud to call myself a "senior optimizer." I rely on my team of Optimal Thinkers (they have read this book and have been trained in Optimal Thinking) to optimize resources and opportunities -- indeed, every situation. If you are performing poorly, just getting by or even doing great, you will be empowered by this practical book. I give it 6 stars.
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Summary: How to let our best self triumph over our suboptimal selves
Review: This book offers an original brilliant approach for optimizing thinking and performance. The author distinguishes between negative, mediocre, extraordinary and optimal thinkers. She showed me how to rise above my suboptimal voices/selves and lead with my best self in any situation. I thoroughly appreciated the roadmaps for decision making and optimizing emotions. Bravo Dr. Glickman!
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Summary: Optimal Thinking is the basis of optimal performance.
Review: This powerful book is a classic because it provides the key to peak performance. Other self-improvement books are based on suboptimal thinking...but suboptimal thinking is the basis of suboptimal performance. We compromise our best self and settle for second best with suboptimal thinking. Optimal Thinking has given me peace of mind and the ability to make the most of life. Read this book and give it to everyone you know.
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Summary: far too general
Review: This book sums up recent research in intelligence, but does not take into consideration the performance factor. If you have never read a self help book, it would be a very good start (with a good bibliography to look up further reading). But if you are already quite advanced with creative thinking, emotional intelligence etc., forget it. The problem with the book is that it explains that you have to do your best all the time...well we all know that. After 5 pages I saw that the author was not going to address the serious issue raised by the title: how to be your best self. In the whole book there is no attempt to define the self, and no understanding of multiple selves, including not so good performing ones. I am a mid career diplomat, working usually at 80 % and keeping my bosses very happy with that. I was looking for a book which would help me get to the 100% mark like one or two of my colleagues (out of 90). This book did not help me.
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Summary: Make the best decisions with Optimal Thinking
Review: This book is a priceless asset for realistic people who are ready to take responsibility for making the most of the present moment and their life situation. I now use Optimal Thinking for simple and complex decisions in my career. I use Optimal Thinking to deal with my feelings instead of giving this responsibility to a therapist. I use Optimal Thinking to plan my life. I use Optimal Thinking to bring out the best in my family, my friends and my business associates. I use Optimal Thinking to enjoy life to the fullest. I am proud to have made the choice to be my best in every situation. Thank you Dr. Glickman for writing this book and showing me how to maximize my time on this planet.
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Summary: Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
Review: I have read this life changing book three times. This book shows you how to your best, how to help others to be their best, and how to get the most from life. I heard Dr. Glickman present Optimal Thinking at the International Conference on Thinking about ten years ago. As an engineer, I was impressed with the practical nature and universal application of Optimal Thinking and have attended several of her seminars since that time. Ten years ago, I was a mediocre manager who was unsympathetic toward my staff and dreaded hearing their problems. Now I am an optimizer. I am one hundred percent committed to my staff and have their best interests at heart. Optimal Thinking has helped many of my staff members feel secure enough to drop "fake it until you make it" positive thinking. They are now able to honest with me, and we work together to find optimal solutions. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.
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Summary: A new paradigm for realists to optimize any situation.
Review: This book provides a practical paradigm for the realist to make the most of any situation. Optimal Thinking is the peak form of thinking we all use when our best self is in charge. Some examples of Optimal Thinking are "Is this the best I can do? What's the most constructive action I can take under the circumstances? What is my/our highest priority?" The book shows you how to use Optimal Thinking consistently to make the most of what comes your way. Optimal Thinking is a sensible down-to-earth resource which any person can use to make the most of themselves and their life. It is NOT wishful thinking. Buy this book!
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Summary: If you like questions you'll like this book!
Review: I was looking for a positive thinking book to uplift me. The jacket made this book sound like it would be perfect, but I couldn't get past the first three chapters. The author seams to think that asking questions is the answer to everything. Personally when I ask someone a question and they answer with a question I find it very aggrevating!!!
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Summary: ok
Review: I would love to give a positive review to this book, but I did have a few concerns that in honesty I can not neglect. In a nutshell, the key problem for me was the dramatic claims, by the author, of what this book would do for me. Although I accept that now and then dramatic effects like the ones claimed are possible, the author did not win over my trust. For example, the author says; "Sweep past the ordinary and even the extraordinary into the world of the highest and the best," a claim that is not just dramatic, it is vague. I am surprised by the unequivocal unbounded optimism of other reviewers... hum.... If this book wins favorable acclaim among published book critics, like the New York Times, please ignore everything I say!
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Summary: Optimal Thinking is the best path to achieve the best result
Review: I bought this book after four colleagues I admire told me about it, and after I had read Stephen Covey's words of praise and many online reviews. Optimal Thinking is the most powerful and uplifting book I have come across. When you use Optimal Thinking, your life expresses your best self. I use Optimal Thinking every day in my personal life and in my business. I have given this book to my family and will have all my employees trained in Optimal Thinking within the next six months. Read this book... you won't be disappointed.
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