Think More React Less: You've been told you should. No one has shown you how...Until now.

By Samuel J. Lucci III

"This book was written to give you both an explanation of new knowledge, discovered over 40 years of trial and error in the real world, not in a lab or clinical setting and an easy to follow formula to get lasting results the first time you apply this knowledge. You will see improvement in your life as you read. You will not have to wait until you're finished to begin reaping the benefits of thinking more and reacting less.

Our understanding of human behavior today is as primitive as was the practice of medicine before we knew that there were germs. We've cracked the code on human behavior and that will change the way we behave. This statement may sound bold and maybe even arrogant to you but it's true. When I started my journey to discover what makes people do what they do and why they so often self-destruct, I never would have imagined where the journey would take me. This is my story."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Release date: Apr 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662908460

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Preface

This book was written to give an explanation of new knowledge, discovered over 40 years of trial and error in the real world, not in a lab or clinical setting. It provides an easy-to-follow formula to get lasting results the first time you apply this knowledge. You will see improvement in your life as you read. You will not have to wait until you’re finished to begin reaping the benefits of thinking more and reacting less.

I have spent my adult life owning and managing a small business. My formal training prepared me to be a secondary educator, not to run a business. Everything that I now know, I learned on the job, the hard way. Building a business is about developing people, something that I realized after only a few short years. I have always known that all human beings are important. They usually have enough native intelligence and most people mean well. They’re good at heart. That is what motivated me to become a teacher.

I have always been an eternal optimist and I love to help people live a better life. For about 40 years, I used my business to this end, emotionally adopting my employees and taking responsibility for their well-being. It didn’t take me very long to become frustrated. I couldn’t understand why helping those around me live a better life was more important to me than it was to them.

In 1990, I read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that all human beings possess the ultimate gift to create the life of their choice. When I learned this little-known secret, my desire to help people live a better life exploded into a single-minded focus: to get it done. I don’t know why this was and is so important to me. I think I was born with this desire and it never goes away; it only deepens every day. Napoleon Hill presents a foolproof formula to make this secret work, but I couldn’t make it work for me or anyone else that I was training. In his later years, Napoleon Hill expressed great disappointment that very few people used his formula.

When my frustration became intolerable, without even realizing it, I put into play the formula outlined in Think and Grow Rich, and used this very formula to find out why I couldn’t make it work. Please don’t get confused by this last statement as it will make perfect sense to you after you have read the book. Specifically, I wanted to know exactly what makes people do what they do. Why do intelligent people do unintelligent things when it is obvious to all of those around them and oblivious to them; and, why couldn’t I take the formula in Think and Grow Rich and make it work for me?

In one of the highest states of emotion I can ever remember, I pledged to myself that I would find answers to these questions or die looking for them. Twenty-two years later, I got these three questions answered completely and that new knowledge now fulfills my lifelong purpose of helping people live a better life. Am I happy about that? Happiness can’t even begin to describe how I feel. I’m writing this book to preserve what I was allowed to discover. People learn and grow at their own pace; and, when they’re ready, Think More—React Less™ will be there for them. Think More—React Less™ is the answer to both all that eludes you and all that seems to follow you like an albatross. A word of caution: To read this book and get the benefit that it offers, one must keep an open mind, because your ego is certain to be challenged. Only you can conquer your own ego, take possession of your mind and create the life of your choice.

Your greatest challenge will be in the words that are used to explain what, up to this point, has been unexplainable. Some of these words have dual meanings and some of them, which have been understood as sacred, will be shown for what they are. These words include, but are not limited to: belief, trust, faith, truth, lies, ego, spirit, dysfunction, thinking, feeling, miracles, accidents, fate, luck, betrayal, resentment, stress, sickness, loss, punishment, guilt and doubt.

Chapter 1

Total possibility

If you knew the truth about yourself, your world would be very different. You wouldn’t be spending your time worrying, criticizing or diverting. You would lose your fears, increase your health and vitality and conquer your stress. Your relationships would all improve slowly over time as you rebuild existing ones and create new worth-while friendships and economic alliances.

You wouldn’t be taking orders or be influenced by others, who are serving themselves at your expense. You would be busy creating the life of your choice, fulfilling dreams that you buried along the way. The story about the life that you’ve been given has been interpreted through ignorance and perpetuated through social heredity, passed down from generation to generation to you. Maybe you share my feeling that it’s time for the world to grow up. Each of us has to start with ourselves and then offer to share our experience with others.

We all have incredible potential and there are no exceptions. People have dominion over the earth and they possess the same intelligence and power as whatever is behind the universe. The human mind can create the material equivalent of its desires and the evidence is everywhere. We have walked on the moon, connected the entire globe with the Internet, successfully transplanted organs, created new products on a daily basis, conquered diseases, fed the world and have uncovered DNA, the very fabric of life itself.

Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.¹

--Albert Einstein

How is it that we, superior, intelligent human beings, engage in behaviors that so often produce pathetic results? We pray to the same God, yet continue to kill each other in the name of that God. We believe that somehow we have discovered a way to give everyone a middle class standard of living without a balanced contribution. We, Americans, accept that a toilet seat for our military should cost $300. We accept that we are left vulnerable to an oil cartel. Or, are we just told that? We accept that in 2008, greed drove the world’s financial system to the brink of disaster and we used taxpayer money to make the guilty parties whole again. On top of that, we gave them bonuses for their performance.

We accept that we went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq for reasons that proved to be untrue. There were no weapons of mass destruction to be found. Maybe you remember that the alleged provocations that led to passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution were never proven either. That put in place our legal authority for participating in the Vietnam War. We accept the fact that the soldiers who were sent to do our fighting in Iraq were not properly equipped. At the same time, billions of dollars were given to private contractors with suspicious ties to those who used these untruths to take us into war in the first place.

All of our problems, whether global or personal, were caused by reacting; they can only be solved by thinking.

—Samuel J. Lucci III

The answer lies in these two concepts: thinking versus reacting. The incredible gift to us humans is our exclusive ability to think. Thinking is the process whereby a human can look at options or alternatives, project outcomes and make a choice. When people think, they create worthwhile outcomes of their choices that never harm others. When people react, they create something that may appear beneficial to them, but may be counterproductive to the rest of humanity. There you have it – the secret to success and your heart’s desire. Close this book and think your way to success. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Come back and see me in twenty years and we‘ll chart your progress.

The sad fact is that if you give me one hour and engage me in conversation, I will write the epitaph for your tombstone. It will be totally accurate. You won’t produce any different results than you do now. Why would I say this? While thinking is the magic bullet, there is something that prevents one from thinking when one needs it the most.

Let me give you some examples. Does a smoker think about the warning on the side of the pack as he or she is lighting up? It is stated on the packaging that smoking causes lung cancer, yet intelligent people light up every day.

Are parents thinking when they spank their children? There are more intelligent ways to discipline children. We can now prove that physical, like emotional punishment, causes trauma to a child’s emotional system, resulting in fears and limitations that they will express in their adult behavior.

Is the average voter really thinking when they pull that lever? I saw an opinion poll in December 2012 where a sizeable majority of the public wanted to replace their congressional representative in the 2013 elections. Almost none were voted out of office. Most people vote along party lines, giving the two major political parties a tremendous advantage that is usually impossible to overcome. Worse yet, less than half of eligible citizens usually even bother to vote at all.

In the interview by Michael Amrine titled, The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Men, Albert Einstein says: ‘Many persons have inquired concerning a recent message of mine that "a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels".² How does one break this habit of reacting when one should be thinking? The world has entered the Age of Enlightenment. Like any of the other time periods that we call an age, it takes time to grow through it. The Industrial Revolution took about 100 years. It won’t take that long for this age to complete, as we are well into it. All over the globe, individuals and lower profile groups are concentrating on understanding our spiritual connection to energy and feelings.

Feelings have generally been ignored as