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Brave Thinking: The Art and Science of Creating a Life You Love
Upgrade your mind to upgrade your life.
What if you could accomplish your five-year plan in a matter of months? If that sounds impossible, you’re not thinking bravely. Yet.
In this transformational guide to changing your life for good, personal development expert and best-selling author Mary Morrissey shows you how to move from stasis to action―by changing the stories you tell yourself. Drawing from advancements in science, timeless principles from wisdom traditions, and her personal stories and insights, Morrissey gives you the tools to overcome “common-hour thinking”―the fact-based, linear way of processing reality that measures what is possible by what resources you believe are available to you―and replace it with the powerful alternative that is brave thinking.
Where common-hour thinking is limiting and uncreative, brave thinking is expansive and imaginative, not limited by time or circumstance or even the past. Brave thinkers know that before something can exist in the real world, it must first exist in your mind. Then, it must be grounded in decisive action. If you want results in life that are different from the ones you currently have, you need a different operating system for your mind. It’s time to install brave thinking, and start living the life you want
What if you could accomplish your five-year plan in a matter of months? If that sounds impossible, you’re not thinking bravely. Yet.
In this transformational guide to changing your life for good, personal development expert and best-selling author Mary Morrissey shows you how to move from stasis to action―by changing the stories you tell yourself. Drawing from advancements in science, timeless principles from wisdom traditions, and her personal stories and insights, Morrissey gives you the tools to overcome “common-hour thinking”―the fact-based, linear way of processing reality that measures what is possible by what resources you believe are available to you―and replace it with the powerful alternative that is brave thinking.
Where common-hour thinking is limiting and uncreative, brave thinking is expansive and imaginative, not limited by time or circumstance or even the past. Brave thinkers know that before something can exist in the real world, it must first exist in your mind. Then, it must be grounded in decisive action. If you want results in life that are different from the ones you currently have, you need a different operating system for your mind. It’s time to install brave thinking, and start living the life you want
- GenresSelf HelpNonfiction
321 pages, Hardcover
First published September 23, 2014
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About the author
Mary Morrissey
21 books13 followersSpeaker, best-selling author, consultant for over four decades, and the founder and owner of Brave Thinking Institute, Mary Morrissey's transformational talks and seminars have made her one of the elite teachers in personal development.
As a sought-after expert on the “Invisible Side of Success," she’s spoken three times at the United Nations, facilitated three different week-long meetings with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and met with Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa, to address the most significant issues our world is facing.
Mary has a master's degree in counseling psychology and an honorary doctorate in humane letters, and is the author of two best-selling books, No Less Than Greatness and Building Your Field of Dreams, which became a PBS special. Through her books, live events and programs, she has empowered tens of thousands of people worldwide to achieve new heights of spiritual aliveness, prosperity and authentic success.
Among all her achievements and degrees in higher learning, Mary’s favorites are the two black belts she’s earned: one in Success and the other in Failure.
As a sought-after expert on the “Invisible Side of Success," she’s spoken three times at the United Nations, facilitated three different week-long meetings with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and met with Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa, to address the most significant issues our world is facing.
Mary has a master's degree in counseling psychology and an honorary doctorate in humane letters, and is the author of two best-selling books, No Less Than Greatness and Building Your Field of Dreams, which became a PBS special. Through her books, live events and programs, she has empowered tens of thousands of people worldwide to achieve new heights of spiritual aliveness, prosperity and authentic success.
Among all her achievements and degrees in higher learning, Mary’s favorites are the two black belts she’s earned: one in Success and the other in Failure.
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December 11, 2025
Brave Thinking - Mary Morrisey puts it all into perspective no matter where you are in your journey.
She has provided an outline that can help anyone achieve the next vision that they have themselves.
It is truly an amazing book that I have shared with my core team at work. It has been amazing to watch team member accomplish something they had in their vision using the tools she provides in this book.
She shares things that make it relatable to each of us regardless of where we are each at during the time we read it.
She has provided an outline that can help anyone achieve the next vision that they have themselves.
It is truly an amazing book that I have shared with my core team at work. It has been amazing to watch team member accomplish something they had in their vision using the tools she provides in this book.
She shares things that make it relatable to each of us regardless of where we are each at during the time we read it.
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November 24, 2023A more accurate title would be the art and “practice,” not “science.” I was expecting some neuroscience or behavioral science, but hey, that’s on me for not doing my research before reading. This is more about “manifesting.”
May 12, 2025
Inspire!
Wonderful walk with Mary. As usual she teaches you to build bravely! The step by step guide is easy to understand and implement.
Wonderful walk with Mary. As usual she teaches you to build bravely! The step by step guide is easy to understand and implement.
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