Introduction

Thinking is an ability all human beings share and few understand. For the majority of people thinking is done without any awareness of it, very much like breathing: we breath all the time, without being aware of it, and we think all the time, also without being aware of it.

Incentive for changing this state of unawareness of the supremely important ability to think lies in the realization that quality of thinking determines quality of life. Understanding of the thinking process  and its connection with experience cannot coincide with unhappy existence. Even life full of challenges need not be unhappy. When thinking process and its connection to experiences are understood, challenges will be dealt with as they arise in life, but they will not generate unhappiness.  

Since there is no such a thing as a  problem-free life, we would do well to get the next best thing – a life free of ups and downs caused by our sinking into the state of unhappiness when we are confronted with challenges. This can be achieved only if we understand and improve the thinking process that underlies all experiences.    

This book is not only for people who are unhappy or dissatisfied with their lot. Even those fortunate few who are already happy and satisfied can enhance their enjoyment of and active participation in life through better understanding of the thinking process.  People who feel even the smallest dissatisfaction with something in life, those who have a desire that has not been fulfilled, some unresolved grief, some longing, some dream that will not go away, will quickly reap the benefits of  understanding the thinking process.

When we arrive at the place of  peace, with quiet joy emanating from deep within independently of what is going "on the surface" as  life's daily events, we can be sure that we have weeded out of our thinking all that had been generating unhappiness.

If you are willing to consider the possibility that thinking determines experience,  this book is for you. “Thinking 101” will help you understand the basics of the thinking process, and that understanding will enable you to make improvements where they are needed.  That will be a start. You can take the process from there as far as you want. Actually, there is no end to how far you can take it, and life gets to be better all the time, as you go along.

I have spent 25 years working on this so you don’t have to do it from scratch.  I have observed, experimented, analyzed, read, studied, and pondered the issue of the connection between thinking and experience until it yielded the results that gave me reason to speak with confidence and conviction that can only be derived from  personal experience.

This book is short, and its contents are easy to follow and understand.  I strove for brevity and directness in order to condense my conclusions into a message that can be quickly read and implemented. I would have condensed it even more had not the publishing requirements for the minimum length of the manuscript interfered with that intention.

I am confident that reading this book will quickly change the way you go about life, and that it will change it for the better.

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