How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life pdfdrive com

1. Unselfish Thinking Brings Personal Fulfillment
Few things in life bring greater personal rewards than helping others. Charles
H. Burr believed, “Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it.” Helping
people brings great satisfaction. When you spend your day unselfishly serving
others, at night you can lay down your head with no regrets and sleep soundly. In
Bringing Out the Best in People
, Alan Loy McGinnis remarked, “There is no
more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being—to help
someone succeed.”
Even if you have spent much of your life pursuing selfish gain, it’s never too
late to have a change of heart. Even the most miserable person, like Charles
Dickens’s Scrooge, can turn his life around and make a difference for others.
That’s what Alfred Nobel did. When he saw his own obituary in the newspaper
(his brother had died and the editor had written about the wrong Nobel, saying
that the explosives his company produced had killed many people), Nobel
vowed to promote peace and acknowledge contributions to humanity. That is
how the Nobel Prizes came into being.

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2. Unselfish Thinking Adds Value to Others
In 1904, Bessie Anderson Stanley wrote the following definition of success in
Brown Book
magazine:
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and
the love of little children, who has filled his niche and accomplished his
task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved
poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation
of earth’s beauty or failed to express it, who has always looked for the best
in others and given them the best he had, whose life was an inspiration,
whose memory a benediction.
When you get outside of yourself and make a contribution to others, you
really begin to live.

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