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
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.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.