Think Straight: Master Your Mind and Transform Your Life - A Practical Guide by Darius for Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Stress, and Improving Your Life and Career Paperback – 1 January 2020

A good read. Definitely helped me to take a step back and march from chaos to clarity. A simple but deep reading.

I'd posted a review a while back but was rejected by amazon saying I shared a third-party link. That party link was from goodreads, which is currently owned by Amazon itself. LOL! 🤪 I posted the entire book review copy-pasted from that site below.Product-wise the book is made of cheap materials as expected from price category and is a steal for the buck. However, byte-size reassuring chapters of this book is good for quick read. Price was 134₹ back in January 30th but increased to 149₹ now(March 20).My review on goodreads:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A self-help book. Was recommended by our manager during a recent scrum call.This one is a quick read. Or can be read slowly or read as reference whenever required.This book is short and to the point. Very few scientific papers mentioned in this book. Chapters are lectures from personal experience.Book can be treated as ready reckoner or refresher after reading bigger self-books like "Thinking, Fast and Slow " by Daniel Kahneman, or one of the books on pragmatic thinking mentioned by the author of this book at the end.Last year, I'd read "Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing" by Andrew Smart. It emphasized the time to relax and let the brain do the thinking. He emphasized the "Default Mode Network", that gets activated when we're idle. This idea is briefly surfaced, though not exactly, on chapters like "No More Quick Decisions." But majority of chapters in THINK STRAIGHT are against trusting what mind tells you without scientific backing.At the end of the book, the author has ridiculed scientific theories as useless to day-to-day life and even suggested that scientists have "wasted their time on abstract ideas and theories." This was a quote by William James in 19th century who has not witnessed the prowess of theoretical physicists and their applications of theories in 20th century. Including such quotes will lead to wrong impression of thinking minds like scientists and philosophers for the future generations. Granted, scientific theories are not useful for day-to-day life and also his audience, but there are others who are knowledge workers and need their mind to work a lot. Shouldn't give an outdated opinion demoralizing a section of society, who's work might be beneficial to human society and planet earth indirectly.Will go through this book again for general motivation on training the brain to focus on important things, though I don't agree with some parts of the book.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

One of the best books I have ever read about thinking delivers a very clear message about life and thought processes. The key ideas include: don’t ask "why," never carry emotional baggage, don’t live in the past, let go of guilt, think outside the box, and live in the present. There are many more insights. I recommend reading it if you’re considering making a change in your thinking.

There is nothing big in it,most probably you all experienced the things in your life what this book noted,it just codified everything in a book.But yeah,its short and crisp it wont take your much time.

Actual I am trying to make a habit to read atleast one page in the book per day but successfully I have not follow my habit😅 and had a goal to read some chapters atleast in a week this time I have achieved ✊.What makes to choose this book??In the beginning to build an habit to achieve any goal first we need to been focused and I have searched for a book to stop overthinking, overcome from the negative thoughts as we all have this problems 😂. Impressed a lot for Title and diagrams of the book and decided to purchase this book.With very curiosity started reading as this is my first book. At the beginning felt I got the right book at right time connected very much for every content and examples from the authors life🙂. In every chapter clearly shared his experience how he overcome from the thinking unnecessary things and what steps he have taken to make things organised to achieve his goals. Will have the lot of chapters with short and crisp Motivative notes. Some things feels funny (like taking Quick Decisions)but with out knowing our self will do in our daily life.One of favourite chapter if MY MONEY RULES which is very important thing in our personal life and I have connected for this chapter. Definitely our thinking will get changed towards the things will do and the decisions we are taking. This book completely about journey of the author and complete his thinking process of achieving his goals.Some times will feel we are getting very short summary from this book and will get very few examples. For the people who don't have habit of reading books like me it's good to start with this book.

Its amazing in way books and author explained in the bookThats most simplest book to read to align on your thought and manage instead control your brainI would use it to manage my brain instead controlingI refer this to every one who is up for action but does not have a starting point or a freind to get what to doI got blessed to get this book which was lying in my kindle store for a long time and in just 1.5 days i finished it so you see if a lazzy person like me found it interesting to change the way i work you can do tooThe night i started reading the book it also started taking it into action and next day (sunday) was the most self productive day i had after a long time where i only worked on my self

No need to expect something marvellous. But Darius just said something we all know. Yet the best part is that he doesn't overcomplicate it. He keeps it simple. There is no snobishness around the book.

This book contains concepts so basic that should be for children only but the language used is little tougher so basically college students can read this in free timeBasic concepts but good to readI am giving 4 star just bcoz I think it's not that much of valuable for senior students but still it's a small book only so not much time waste