Richard Canfield explains Rule number five: rethink your thinking. He argues you need to reflect on past decisions and how your perspective shifts once you've solved a problem, using a teacher named Nelson as his reference point.
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When we are embracing or using a solution, we don't always reflect back once we're in the process of doing it. Sometimes we forget about the problems that we've already solved from implementing. And one thing that's really important for us to understand is that our mindset is so critical. And Nelson taught us about rethinking our thinking. Rule number five is to rethink your thinking. Well, what does that really mean? You've already thought about something. Now you're at a different period, point, timeframe in life, and you have a chance to reflect and reconsider the thinking that you had in the past. In other words, how did you think about something in the past and how are you thinking about about it now?