A review by explorerstragic
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

4.0

My mother bought this book for me to read in an airport many years ago. Being the kid I was, I thought the book looked interesting and never read it. Fast forward about eight years later and I’m reading a lot of these kind of self-help success-minded entrepreneurial books. I saw The Magic of Thinking Big show up in some recommendations and I had a moment of “I’ve got that book!” and so I read it over a few months in between other reads.

It has helped me change my thoughts to be focussed on success and building good habits to work harder, make better impressions, and tackle difficult tasks by believing I can do it. There are heaps of other hints of wisdom, and I especially liked how it encouraged the reader to move away from gossip and instead focus on being of service to others and seeing them succeed too. It was this kind of optimistic attitude that is also making me want to be a successful, goal-attaining person. There was one thing that was a bit annoying, and that was the judgemental attitude the author had for unsuccessful or “poor” people. There were also other dubious examples of success, like leaders such as Hitler and the invention of the atom bomb. These kinds of examples shed success in an evil light, and I wish they were omitted.