It's very true!

Also think about this parallel thought, that comes to mind:

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."

~ Tony Robbins;

Here are some interesting prompts and witticisms which I have had excerpted from Dilip Mukerjea's new book, Conquering Critical Thinking: Breaking Through from How to Wow! 

What would you do if you had the power to do more?

Know that YOU have the FREEDOM to express yourself! Do so!

The most powerful force in the cosmos isn’t technology: it’s IMAGINATION! 

The NUMBER ONE PROBLEM in the world, as is commonly assumed, is not global warming, food and water shortage, political corruption, war and terrorism, poverty, unemployment, planetary pollution, and other such elements: it is the stark INABILITY TO THINK CLEARLY. 

Confusion Immobilises; CLARITY IS POWER! 

By our citizenry being able to think clearly, we possess the power to eradicate all of the above-mentioned maladies. 

The quality of our lives and that of what we produce, create, or build, depends precisely on the quality of our thoughts.

Be purposefully engaged in becoming a world-class thinker across all contexts. 

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with BIG dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. Excellence! You HAVE to demand it of yourself! 

Any ape can reach for a peanut. Only we can reach for the stars!

Believe, as did Andrew Carnegie, that “definiteness of purpose” is the crucial starting point for all success—that “the man who knows exactly what he wants… has no difficulty in believing in his own ability to succeed.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein

Before we work on Artificial Intelligence, why don't we do something about Natural Stupidity?

Here's a quick recap of Napoleon Hill's teachings about the concept of 'Definiteness of Purpose', to serve as a preamble to what I am about to write:

"All success begins with definiteness of purpose, with a clear picture in your mind of precisely what you want in life."

"There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim. Ninety-eight out of every hundred of those whom I have analyzed, had no such aim. Perhaps this was the major cause of their failure."

"Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass."

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"I don’t know why it is that when a man decides what he wants, the whole universe seems to come to his aid to see that he gets it."

Another interesting story to share about how a celebrity had had put the foregoing to work in the real world.

The legendary martial artist Bruce Lee appeared to have been an avid student of the works of Napoleon Hill.

Putting the principles to work, his chosen Definite Chief Aim was to become the highest paid Asian celebrity in the United States.

To make this a concrete reality, the first step he took was to put the strategic intention into physical form by writing it out:

Here it is. The rest was history!

To me, the acronym of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. to denote success traits as created by Dr Maxwell Maltz, writing in his Psycho-Cybernetics classic is indeed a marvelous piece of work, attesting to the intellectual horsepower and mental bandwidth of the author.

The first letter stands for Sense of Direction.

It resonates pretty well with the intellectual cues of Napoleon Hill (Definiteness of Purpose), Dr Edwards Deming (Constancy of Purpose), Tony Robbins (beginning part of his Ultimate Success Formula) and Joel Arthur Barker (Power of Vision, with corroborating research findings from Dutch social scientist Fred Polak, management consultant Jim Collins, psychologist Martin Seligman, Canadian educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Singer, and not forgetting, Austrian psychologist/psychiatrist Dr Viktor Frankl).

In a nut shell, and putting it in layman terms, it's all about the fact that goals set direction, in tune with Dr Maltz's concept of goal striving.

Other than the myriad aspects of Imagination, Opportunity Sensing, and Theatre of the Mind, this Goal Striving perspective of Dr Maltz actually fascinated me the most, ever since having read his classic for the first time in the late seventies.

It has had also benefitted me the most as a professional working in the corporate world during the ensuing years from the late seventies.

Interestingly, Dr Maltz added in his Prescription for establishing a Sense of Direction:

• Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project;
• Decide what you want out of any situation. That means, you must know your principal objective;
• Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to work for and hope for;
• Always look forward, for the Nostalgia for the Future can keep you youthful;
• When you're not striving, not looking forward, you are really not living;
• Get interested in some projects to help others, not out of a sense of duty, but because you want to;

Bravissimo!