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Summary of Loserthink 

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Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking. Our click-bait-driven media and attention-driven economy fuel this phenomenon, and everyone is prone to it, no matter how smart! Some of the signs of a loserthinker are cognitive biases, thinking your opinion is only the right one, and being trapped in a continuous fight or flight state. It is easy to feel sick, poor, anxious, defensive, and miserable, considering the endless notifications on your social media feeds and phones. Fortunately, there is a cure! In Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America, Scott Adams offers bold strategies that will reorient your mind and break you from the circle of negative thoughts so that you can do your best work. You will learn how to: dial down your ego, so it doesn’t get in your way of doing your best work, manage your anger and frustration, break free from your mental prison, and much more. “No matter how smart you are, if you don’t have experience across multiple domains, you’re probably not equipped with the most productive ways of thinking.” ~ Scott Adams

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  • What is Loserthink about?
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It’s possible to be intelligent and experienced but still fall foul to loserthink behavior

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We all use our brains to make decisions; the difference is the line of thought. Unfortunately, thinking is no longer taught in schools; if you scroll through your social media, you will realize there is a need to realign the thought pattern of Americans. The reasoning of the masses is grossly unproductive, and Scott Adams refers to this pattern of logic as ‘loserthink.’
Loserthink doesn’t mean that you’re lacking in sense or knowledge. It means you’re not thinking productively.
The thinking pattern of an average American has nothing to do with IQ or other measures of intelligence. The availability of the correct information, high IQ rate, and reputation does not deter an individual from being a flagrant loserthinker.

This lies in the fact that different individuals are exposed to various teachers and life experiences. As a result, their line of thought is programmed a certain way. For instance, a trained doctor has learned to think about the world differently from a philosopher, theologist, lawyer, or engineer. Applying the thought pattern learned from a single discipline will leave you with an inadequate unproductive thinking pattern. For efficient thinking, you will have to sample your thinking pattern against that of other disciplines.

The goal is to understand how people from different fields think; this will enlighten your thinking pattern. You do not have to become a master in different areas to understand how these individuals think. With Loserthink, you will understand the thought patterns of experts from various fields and be exposed to the most efficient thinking techniques obtained from multiple disciplines.

This summary will set your brain filters to recognize loserthink whenever you encounter it, in others and yourself.
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Sometimes we think that our explanations of things are the simplest ones

When in a conflict or argument with someone else or an alternate group, if the reason for your stance revolves around the belief that you know and understand the inner thoughts of your opponent, you are probably in a mental prison. Many people have created mental prisons for themselves. They often believe that they are better judges of the inner thoughts of others, but indeed, we are far from that level of knowledge.
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Occam’s razor takes us back to basics and cuts out the confusion

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Imagination can help keep you out of mental prison

fifth key point

Forget the past and focus on the present. Otherwise, you’re loserthinking

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Learn to break out of your mental prison and free yourself

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