Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltzwas an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image. In turn, the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller — influencing many subsequent self-help teachers. His orientation towards a system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the forerunner of the now popular self-help books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 March 1899
CountryUnited States of America
Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible....
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.