Your Thoughts Are Your Greatest Resource
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Ever wonder why we spend our entire lives thinking but aren’t taught how our thoughts work?
Thought literacy is the structured skillset for understanding and managing your thoughts. It helps you make better decisions, reduce unnecessary stress, break unhealthy patterns, and build emotional intelligence by helping you understand how your thoughts influence your emotions, behaviors, and relationships.
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Books
You can learn thought literacy with the Thought Swaps and Thoughtbook Series.

Pocket-sized books that help you learn skills and change your inner dialogue.
- Thought Swaps for Building Metacognition: Amazon
- Thought Swaps for Secure Attachment: Amazon | Bookshop.org | Barnes & Noble
- Thought Swaps for Setting Boundaries: Amazon
- Thought Swaps for Emotional Availability: Amazon | Bookshop.org | Barnes & Noble

Concise books with practical and actionable advice to that help you understand, manage, and improve your thoughts.
📖 Overthink: Amazon | Bookshop.org | Barnes & Noble
📖 Middle Think: Amazon | Bookshop.org
📖 Clear Think: Amazon | Bookshop.org | Barnes & Noble
📖 Big Think: Amazon | Bookshop.org
Articles
Thought Tells
Thought tells help you build thought pattern recognition which is a key part of thought awareness.
Keep readingYou Don’t Need a PhD to Talk About Thoughts
The difference between thought awareness and mental health diagnosis
Keep readingYou Shouldn’t Need a PhD to Understand Your Thoughts
Thought literacy is the skillset for thoughts. It’s bringing knowledge about thoughts beyond psychology and into everyday life
Keep readingThe Thought Literacy Framework
Thought literacy is the skillset for thoughts. It involves thought awareness and thought management and core cognitive concepts.
Keep readingCore Cognitive Knowledge
While you don’t need a PhD to understand your thoughts, you need to know the basics of how they work. Having this knowledge makes thoughts…
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About
The Thought Method Co. is a social impact company. Our mission is to make thought literacy a household name and understanding your own thinking as common and accessible as learning any other foundational life skill.
Meet the Founder

Lyndsey Getty created thought literacy with the belief that you shouldn’t need a PhD to understand your thoughts and that everyone deserves access to knowledge about how their mind works.
She continues this work through speaking engagements and the Thoughtbook and Thought Swaps series. With Thought Swaps for Building Metacognition being used to teach social and emotional learning in schools.
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