Oh, how easy it is for others to manipulate what you think.
For example, you probably still remember how awe-struck you felt the first time you confronted the following well-known mind-reading math problem:
1: Think of a number from 2 to 10.
2: Multiply your number by 9.
3: Add the two numbers of your total together.
4: Take 5 away from your answer.
5: If your answer is 1, it equals A;
if it’s 2, it equals B;
if it’s 3, it equals C;
if it’s 4, it equals D.
6: Think of a country in Europe beginning with your letter.
7: Think of an animal beginning with the second letter of your country.
8: Think of the color of your animal.
Your answer then floats to the top of your mind as if scrubbed in a brain washing bathtub that is more surreptitious than scrupulous, more manipulating than articulating and more exploitive than probative.
That’s why, as you are toweling off after that brain-washing bath, you’re left to wonder how the other person just read your mind about the grey elephant from Denmark.
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So how do you guard against that brain-washing experience? You sharpen your critical and creative thinking. To more fully maintain control of what you focus on and learn from consider picking up a copy of THINKING Like a Leader, With Clarity, a Leadership Mints Series book available on Amazon.com.
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THINKING Like a Leader, With Clarity is the first book in the Leadership Mints Series that develops your sense of purpose and perspective in creating, concentrating and collaborating.
The 292-page book is comprised of 77 Leadership Mints-short stories on leadership principles that like a candy mint are quickly savored and immediately rejuvenating to refresh your feeling for leading. Readers savor ImproveMINTS: a one-line summary of the of the key learning in that Leadership Mint.
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