About – Think A Better Thought

Shane Duke Boring

Shane has spent a lifetime studying success and has a passion for helping
others realize success in their lives.

In his study, he has had the opportunity to learn from some of the top
influencers in industries ranging from Search Engines to Professional
Sports.

The Greatest Lesson Shane has learned is “Learning who the little voice
inside my head is and how to control this voice.”

This lesson caused Shane to change his conception of everything in his life
and inspired him to share his personal experience in Think a Better
Thought.

Shane hopes that you can take his message, adapt it to fit you and grow
your success, then pass your experience on.

A CONVERSATION WITH SHANE

Q. Does writing energize or exhaust you?

A. Energize. What I write about energizes me because I believe I have a gift to take information about self-improvement and break it down and package it to where it makes sense to the average everyday person. And the feedback I get when people talk about how my writing has made changes in their life that is just like pouring gas on a fire. That’s the reason I do it. When I started to really start to write, I had a passion for sharing what I had learned. It’s a passion for providing a light in a dark tunnel.

Q. What are common traps for aspiring writers?

A. Not getting feedback or getting feedback to early Not figuring out what writing style or method works for you For Example, people will say write a page a day and you will have a book in a year but that didn’t work for me. I had to devote whole days to the process because that worked better for me. Not getting to the point quick enough Being tricky or making people figure stuff out

Q. Does a big ego help?

A. Well since I write all about controlling your ego, I’m going to say 100% negative.

Q. What is your writing Kryptonite?

A. Life, getting busy with work, family or whatever, Other priorities that sometimes have to come before writing.

Q. Do you try to be more original or deliver readers what they want?

A. It is more important for me to deliver what I believe to be true than what they want, but in a way that the reader can receive value and appreciate. What other authors are you friends with and how did they?

Q. Do you want each book to stand alone or are you trying to build connections between each book?

A. I believe when someone reviews my entire body of work they will see there is an obvious connection, but my intention is that each book should stand alone since that could be the only book that the reader reads of mine and I don’t want them to have to connect all the dots.

Q. How did publishing your first book change your process of writing?

A. I realized that I need to write for the reader and not the author. What made sense to me didn’t always make sense to the reader. I realized that pleasing everybody is an impossible task and you need to write confident in your convictions.

Q. What was the best money you ever spent as a writer?

A. Training and expert advice.

Q. What was an early experience where you learned language had power?

A. In third grade I won a school storytelling contest and I realized I could effectively tell a story that others enjoyed.

Q. How do you balance the demands on the reader with taking care of the reader?

A. . By using personal examples of how things weren’t working right for me, how I realized that, and what I did to fix it. I show right off the bat where I was wrong and how I fixed it. I don’t say that you have to do this, but this worked for me. You need to find ways that work for you because we are all so unique.

Q. What does literary success look like to you?

A. The whole global population completing my book.

Q. What kind of research did you do and how long did you spend researching the book?

A. My research is consuming content from other authors in my field, then actually doing the work or method they provide to learn and grow. With this book the research period was about 20 years because I wasn’t expecting to write it. I found a bunch of separate pieces of the puzzle, but nothing put it together for me. When I finally found the piece that all the others fit around, it was like a burning bush for me.

Q. Do you view writing as a spiritual practice?

A. Yes, I think when you write you are truthful and honest and are putting out what you believe in order to help others make a difference in their lives. You are creating and creation is spiritual.

Q. What period of your life do you find you write about the most?

A. Adulthood because I was hardest on myself and the lessons I am learning.

Q. What was the hardest thing you’ve had to write about?

A. Figuring out how I was going to talk about my sexual abuse from my childhood.

Q. Does your family support your pursuit of becoming an author?

A. Family support has been overwhelming.

Q. If you had to do something as a child or teenager to become a better writer, what would you do?

A. I would have written more in school and not looked at it as a task but as work that I was creating.

Q. Do you believe in writer’s block?

A. I think writer’s block happens for different reasons I don’t think writer’s block means that the idea isn’t there. It’s just how do I put this into words in the best way possible or instead of taking a break and resting, pushing forward without resting.