The phrase "better off thinking" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to suggest that it is more beneficial or advantageous to think about something in a certain way. Example: "You're better off thinking positively about the situation rather than dwelling on the negatives."
Are we really better off thinking about nothing but work on the job?
But he may be better off thinking about the Russian experience in Afghanistan.
If you do want to get your content into the living room, you might be better off thinking laterally.
"Teachers would be better off thinking about how they can affect the learning environment and play more of a coaching role instead of thinking about what information they are going to impart," says Shernoff.
In a new paper* Gabriel Rosenberg and Jai Massari of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a law firm, argue that rather than looking at the absolute cost of a transaction in one market, the CFTC would be better off thinking about the relative costs of swaps and futures, both of which it regulates.
Statistics on the overall benefits of this are okay, but you are better off thinking specifically.
The fact that so many of the recent examples have read like a middle-class shopping list rather detracts from the very real struggle that many households are facing as general food prices rise, but there's nothing like a threatened cheese, wine and chocolate shortage to get the better-off thinking about stockpiling – or at least that's what the headline writers appear to think.
And I walked off thinking that he was just a small town guy who didn't know any better.
Once again, Conservative voters appeared the most optimistic, although they were more or less evenly split with 39% thinking today's children would be better off and 38% thinking they would be worse off.
Mr. Egan said that investors would be better off if they started thinking of the spending on their passion as separate from their traditional investments and more like a weekend home.
I realized that when problems arose with parenting, I was much better off being patient and thinking about the situation rather than trying to force change immediately.
