As a Man Thinketh (Fingerprint! Classics)

Great little book,easy reading and drives home the importance of the minds thoughts.Excellent gift idea as well.

This was added to the book collection. My boyfriend really enjoyed reading it.

This little volume is just what the title says it is—a manual for living. That is, of course, you want to be a kinder, more balanced and a happier human being. The history of the original author is fascinating too. You will pick up this book countless times in your life and find extremely relevant insight.

I read the kindle version. I don't know if that is the "original" version. It's very thought provoking. I would recommend it to someone who is just getting started in "changing their mind" as it is a fairly short read and holds your attention. If you have been wondering about all this--whatever you call it: self-help, metaphysical, new-age, spirituality, being positive, "The secret", Dr. Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra stuff is--well this is not new stuff, it's a revival of what great thinkers thought and wrote about before. There were great thinkers in the "middle" of the 20-century like Earl Nightingale, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Dorthea Brande; but there were great thinkers before that in the 19th century like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Allen. All of these writers are focused on self-fufillment and controlling your thoughts--at least in their mainstram self-help books. The books written by these people are not strictly philosophical or religous and that is what is so great about them, but you do have to be at least a little open-minded because how can you think about fulfillment without considering spirituality, philosophy, or religion? You don't have to be a devout muslim, christian, or jew to appreciate them, in fact it would probably strengthen your religion if one of your goals is to be more religious. I think you can benefit if you are atheist or aganostic as well because one of the themes of all these great authors and their books is that you can control your fate and that much of your happiness or lack of happiness or how you view yourself depends upon your perception of yourself and your abilities. This is nothing new in psychology or personal performance in hobbies, work, sports, etc. Everything else aside, and whether or not this is the best or worst review on amazon, the only way great books like this cannot help you is if you believe that every single event in your life had already been pre-planned and you have no possible way to change your own future, which is simply ridiculous because sometime today or tommorow, you will have an important choice or a very unimportant choice to make. And when you make a choice, you are in fact determining your future. How you choose to think is a choice, but learning to control your thoughts is very tough, but the most rewarding thing you can do for yourself.

Such an amazing book

Great read very powerful. This book taught me I have to stop thinking negative if I want to be a better human and have a better life for me and my family….

I need a change of the way I think. I needed understanding of why I have wrong thoughts sometimes. This helped tremendously to break it down and explain in a beautiful way how to govern your thoughts.

Insightful but very short, for only a few bucks I’d say it wasn’t a bad buy. Ultimately it is a short read but conveys a strong message.

Best choice for readers

A short but powerful book that shows how our thoughts shape our character and our life. Simple, clear, and deeply inspiring.

Très bon livre, même s'il je me fait traduire

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comprei de capa normal, muito lindo, pequeno, acredito que da pra finalizar em um final de semana🙏