Mission 

Good Thinking Works™ was founded in April of 2002 in Providence, Rhode Island, on one central idea, namely, that the ability to think well is the single most important element in living a good, rewarding, happy life. To be a good thinker is to be empowered. While it does not by itself guarantee happiness, a well-trained, exercised, fully engaged mind is of enormous benefit to the person in possession of it. With this in mind, the mission of Good Thinking Works ™ is to help individuals, families, organizations, and companies, especially those devoted to serving others, to live and work better by learning to enhance and expand their thinking skills, creative powers, and capacities for solving problems.

We offer a variety of services designed to help individuals and groups to realize heightened thinking powers and to benefit from the application of good thinking to a wide range of problems. We neither compete with nor have any interest in undermining the efforts of attorneys, accountants, investment strategists, spiritual guides, or healers of any kind. We respect the work and the rights of such professionals. Our function is to provide services not precisely within their purviews and to be available to help when the limits of their purviews have been reached.

GTW is a small, community-based, humanistically-oriented company. We believe that no other company currently in existence offers quite the range of services that we do, much less takes the same approach as ours, even to the familiar services in our repertoire. GTW draws on the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, education, and social sciences, particularly in the rich background of its founder, Dr. David Prentiss, in its approach to training for better thinking. That approach is based on a view of human character and achievement, and their potential, that is both humanistic and rigorous, both disciplined and creative, both thoughtfully realistic and soundly optimistic.

The great ancient philosopher Aristotle was convinced that true happiness (eudaimonia) was an activity of the soul (psuche) in accordance with virtue (arête). Thinking of the complete mind and the soul as the same thing, as the ancient Greek philosophers did, we agree. We are dedicated to helping people to get closer to eudaimonia by developing their thinking powers in the very best ways possible.