First, I believe that improving our thinking will always help us acquire more knowledge, more sense, more of anything positive. Positive thinking will lead to positive results. Or as Zig Ziglas says, “stinkin thinkin” will lead to bad results.

What I am suggesting by common sense is something a little different than plain knowledge. The best way I can explain it is with another example.

Many years ago I had to move my father out of his house into an assisted living facility. While I was packing him up, I got help from a dayworker who my father had employed for many years. I had never thought of the dayworker as being very smart. While packing up my father’s belongings, I ran into a problem in that some of his items were going to shift around in the moving van and I was concerned they would be damaged. I couldn’t think of a solution. Out of the blue, this good kind man who had worked with my father for many years came up with a simple, elegant solution where he nailed a piece of wood into the floorboard of the moving van and it kept all the items from shifting around.

Mind you, I have over 22 years of formal education. This gentleman didn’t even have a high school diploma, YET HE KNEW SOMETHING I DID NOT KNOW! His plain, practical COMMON SENSE in that area came up with a solution that had totally escaped my senses. That is when I realized that we have to pay attention to EVERYONE around us, as they often know things that we do not know and we can learn from them.

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Stanley Bronstein
Attorney, CPA, Author & Professional Motivational Speaker