Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition): Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Books By Joseph Nguyen): 9798893310153: Nguyen, Joseph: Books

This book offers a refreshing and grounding perspective on thoughts and self-awareness. It helps you recognize that not every thought deserves your attention or belief, which can be incredibly freeing. The writing is clear, relatable, and easy to digest while still being deeply impactful. It’s a great read for anyone working on mindset, mental clarity, or personal growth. Definitely a book worth revisiting.

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Easy read, don’t hesitate to buy to gain or regain peace in your life, in order to open the path you want for your life. Like the author Joseph Nguyen said in the book, the concept of not thinking is simple, but not easy to do as humans. He says, thoughts create, thinking destroys. So true!I also appreciate the summary at the end and a guide with steps to non-thinking.I believe this book found me. It was only a week after a breakup. I didn’t hesitate to buy the book because I knew I was about to go on a journey of questioning everything that went wrong. I am so glad I followed my intuition. Not to say the breakup wasn’t painful, but I managed it different and didn’t get too far down in sadness and perpetual toxic thinking, how it can be after a breakup. And this was a 2nd chance after being apart over a decade. So I thought this was the one for me, finally.If nothing else, the author’s explanation made me realize just how much our negative thoughts take you down a rabbit hole of pain, blame, shame, and just unnecessary suffering. When you consciously realize it, you know it makes no sense and you truly can end it. However, most of us just keep feeding the negative thoughts. Easier said than done, but truly a simple concept we each have control over and should not allow our minds/thoughts to control us.With that said, I think this book is a natural transition to meditation too, because if you can turn off negative or aimless thinking, you open your mind to endless positivity and clarity your mind can take you. I noticed this about myself…so it validated what was already happening with me. My mind is most clear in the shower, and I would have so many ideas or clarifying thoughts come to me at that time. And to have more of that, outside of the shower, I must catch and end the over-thinking and negative thinking.Towards the end of this book, I just broke down in tears, because the way Joseph described how we must have faith in the unknown, take a leap of faith and be courageous to get what we want–that spoke volumes to me, because it was my thoughts that robbed me of my faith and courage and why I feel I’m not where I’m supposed to be in life. But shifting my thoughts will make space for the possibilities and what I want in my life.So yes, like he said in the beginning, I am different after reading the book. Different in a positive way, trusting the universe and my non-thinking.Thank you, Joseph Nguyen!

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I found this book really insightful. As someone who struggle from anxiety and can get bogged down by the weight of a thousand thoughts. This book helped me self evaluate and find the small habits of thinking I do on a daily basis and evaluate if they affect my life for better or worse.Great work and worth the read.

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I got two good ideas from this book: 1) The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking, and 2) One of the best things you can do to help you on your journey to stop overthinking is to keep a daily journal to track your progress.The rest? Zen-like gobbledygook. As hard as I tried to understand this book and enjoy it, I couldn’t. It was a smattering of obvious platitudes, with no coherent structure or flow whatsoever.I was disappointed that Deepak Chopra and Simon Sinek gave it glowing testimonials. Those and the Amazon description are why I bought it.If you’re a skimmer and breeze through books in 15-20 minutes to extract a couple good ideas, buy this one.Otherwise, skip it. You got the gist of it from my first paragraph above.

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Joseph Nguyen’s Don’t Believe Everything You Think is a super easy read with a powerful message: most of our stress comes purely from taking our thoughts too seriously. It’s written in a really simple, straightforward style, which is great because you can digest it fast. The core idea is that you don’t need to fight your negative thoughts; you just need to realize they’re just temporary chatter, not absolute truth.Honestly, I was expecting something a little more complex or academic given the heavy title, but the book keeps it very light and conversational. It walks you through how to spot your “thinking mind” when it’s sabotaging you and offers quick ways to detach from that mental noise. It’s perfect for anyone wanting a simple, practical toolkit for immediate peace of mind without wading through dense theory.