Great post - thanks for the reminder - mind was trapped today on how much Diablo 3 still sucks and the Giants loss today. Eddy Azar posted something in a similar vein a month or two back on things he learned in life - namely something about not being able to change your thoughts/feelings but you can change your focus/perception (which in turn changes thought/feeling). Diversifying my thoughts and adding in some Tynan-esque gratitude really got me going again.

I see the value in diversifying your thoughts, but also in taking  different vein by actually limiting my thoughts into a singular focus.

For example, what I'm doing is focusing 80% of my thoughts on the making of money. This way, all my thoughts and actions are towards my current first priority: learning how to make money. 

Now, on most weekends, I'll stop thinking about money and business and focus instead on being social and relaxing. This keeps me from burning out or ignoring most of my world. 

If you have a primary goal, something you wish to achieve more than anything else (be it getting great with women, or being able to make automated income, or whatever else), is it not advantageous to purposefully narrow down your world to that one thing for most of the time? Permanently  of course not. But for a couple of months or years, I think it may be.

What do you think?

I would say people should try to meditate too. It's good for your brain and general health to not be obsessed with thoughts too. Not to mention you gain a better awareness of the thoughts you are having in daily life and how most of them are either completely useless or unhelpful in that moment.

Also, as you mentioned, if a person has the exact same thought all the time then it's likely a lack of action taking place. Which means fear, anxiety. Also indecisiveness. But once you take a lot of actions, you move on to new thoughts. Although they might be in the same category.

Otherwise, I really enjoy talking to different types of people and digging deep into their hobbies, jobs, or whatever. I probably have a bunch of audio and video files on different subjects like Roman History or Architecture, but I don't really care about those subjects so I don't listen to them. But, it's a whole different story if I talk to someone else who is interested in those subjects.

Seems kind of strange to me that he even tackles it from diversifying thoughts and not just diversifying actions, environments, people, etc. There's kind of a limit to how meaningful your thoughts are going to be in a bubble.