Clear the Cobwebs from your Thinking.

You are what you think . But, what do you think 🤦‍♂️? → But how orderly is your thought process? → How straight is your thinking?

→ And how clean are your thoughts?

There are certain mental cobwebs that clutter up the thinking of almost everyone, even the most brilliant minds. Negative feelings, emotions, passions - habits, beliefs and prejudices. Our thoughts become entangled in these webs.

Sometimes, we have undesirable habits and we want to correct them. And there are times when we strongly tempted to do wrong. Then, like an Insect in a spider's web, we struggle to get free. → Our Conscious will is in conflict with our imagination and the will of our subconscious mind. The more we struggle, the more we get entrapped. Some persons give up and experience the mental conflicts of the living hell. Others earn how to tap and use the powers of the subconscious through a conscious mind. They are victorious. And when looking at life through a positive attitude teaches you to tap and use these powers.

An insect may not be able to avoid being caught in the spider's web. And when once trapped, it is unable to free itself. There is one thing, however, over which each person has absolute, inherent control, and that is his mental attitude. We can avoid mental cobwebs. We can clear them. And we can sweep them away as they begin to develop. We can free ourselves when once enmeshed. And we can remain free.

You do this by accurate thinking with Positive Mental Attitude.

To Think Accurately, you must use Reason.

→The science of reasoning or accurate thinking is called logic.

But, we don't act from reason alone. And action is based more than just reason. It depends upon habits of thought and action, intuitions, experiences and other influences such as tendencies and environment.

→ One of the cobwebs of our thinking is to assume that we act from reason alone when in reality every conscious act is the result of doing what we want to do. We make decisions. There is a tendency, when reasoning, to draw conclusions favorable to the strong urges of our subconscious mind.

Hence, we see here that cobwebs prevent accurate thinking when we start with the wrong premise. So many persons think inaccurately when they allow all-embracing word symbols to clutter up their minds with false premises. Such words or expressions as always --- only ---never --- nothing --- every --- everyone --- no one --- can't --- impossible --- either ... or ---- are most frequently false premises. Consequently, when they are used their logical conclusions are false.

Now , there is one word which, when used with PMA can motivates a person to honorable achievement. When used with Negative Mental Attitude, it becomes the excuse for lies, deception and fraud.

→Necessity is the word. Necessity is the mother of invention and the father of crime.

→Another point to be noted here is, there are many varieties of cobwebs - some small, some large, some weak, some strong. Yet, if you make an additional listing of your own, and then examine the strands of each cobwebs closely, you will find that they are all spun by Negative Mental Attitude.

And when we think about it for a while, we see that the strongest cobweb spun by NMA is the cobweb of Inertia. Inertia causes you to do nothing; or, if you are moving in the wrong direction, keeps you from resisting or stopping. You go on and on.

→Ignorance is the result of Inertia. That which seems logical to the person who is ignorant to the facts or know-how may be illogical to the man who does know. When you make decisions because you refuse to keep an open mind and learn the truth - that is ignorance.

And NMA keeps alive and grows fat on ignorance. ELIMINATE IT!

→Through a Positive Mental Attitude, we can clearly know how to eliminate it.

The man with a PMA may not know the facts or have the know-how. He may not understand. Yet he recognizes the basic premise that truth is truth and is not false regardless of his lack of knowledge or understanding. He therefore endeavors to keep an open mind and to learn. He must base his conclusion on what he does know, yet be prepared to change them when he becomes more enlightened.

Source: From "Success through A Positive Mental Attitude" by Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone.