THINK Hardcover – May 14, 2026

"Harry Potter for grown-ups."Schools teach you what to do.Now learn how to think.Get Ready for some Real Magic.Thinking is your superpower.Excerpts:Follow the lives of some remarkable people, and learn with them how to think:MEET Liz:When Liz was named CEO, Charles, chairman of the board, said, “If she’d been around in 1944, Eisenhower would’ve handed her the keys to the Third Army and told Patton to take notes.MEET Josiah:Josiah inherited two things from his mother: her sharp mind.And her chains.She was captured from Senegambia and sold for $350. “A good price,” she used to tell her children.The first air he tasted was on credit from Mistwood, a sprawling South Carolina plantation known for its Indigo and immense inhumanity.He was built like an ox and quick to learn the unwritten rules of life as a slave in the nineteenth century.Despite what his overseers thought, Josiah wasn’t playing their game.They were playing his.THINK:Replacing gasoline with rocket fuel may make your car run faster, but it still won’t fly. If your life is not producing the results you would like, working harder is unlikely to change that.It’s not effort that we are missing, but the correct thinking.The Wright brothers didn’t conquer gravity by strapping a bigger engine to a wagon. Brute force wasn’t the hero here. Brute force is rarely the hero. The engine that actually conquered the sky at Kitty Hawk had twelve horsepower — less than you use to mow your lawn on a Sunday morning. Thinking did the heavy lifting.It’s not what successful people do that makes them win. It’s how they think.Doing what they did will not do for you what it did for them.Steve Jobs didn’t emerge from the womb with a computer chip in his mouth. Warren Buffett didn’t offer stock advice to his nursery teacher. Thomas Edison didn’t install a light bulb above his crib.No one is born with the right thinking. They had to learn it.You can learn it too. Read more