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The New Psycho-Cybernetics( The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People)[NEW PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS UPD][Paperback]
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Maxwell Maltz
85 books384 followersMaxwell Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image leading to a more successful and fulfilling life.
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January 16, 2016
There's just a few books that I re-read every year, and this is one of them. Close to a year ago I read the original version by Maxwell Maltz and this time I decided to check out the new one. Both are brilliant books, and I like the Dan Kennedy version a bit more as the few updates really make the book evergreen. HIGHLY recommended reading, this is a book that will change your life and help you make that identity shift that's necessary to achieve success in any area of life.
March 9, 2009
The fundamental ideas are good, but it's moderately saturated with God references and "The Creator" and stuff that inches dangerously towards schools of thought that endorse not taking responsibility for your actions, which is severely contradictory to what I think he's trying to say. Also, the "New" ness of it just involves lengthy additional chapters / paragraphs that brag about how many people have used his book (but not always specifying how).
Good supplementary reading: The Mental Edge - Kenneth Baum
Good supplementary reading: The Mental Edge - Kenneth Baum
June 15, 2012
One of the best books I have ever read in the field of psychology and identity. This book is a must read for anyone interested in personal development, understanding yourself and understanding others.
November 24, 2010
I am rating this for originality and heft of ideas, not writing. This book may come across as a little cheesy, as it did for me, until I considered that it may be the origin, or at least a key 20th Century popularization, of important performance enhancing techniques, and that from my layman's point of view, said techniques and concepts remain as sound as ever against current neuro- and cognitive science.
Why was Lindsey Vonn, the gold medalist alpine skier, often seen, eyes closed in a silent, mental, pre-race run down the course last olympics? Read this and find out. The book is a little long considering the relatively simple, straightforward ideas in it. The prologue from the revising author is entirely skippable, and forgettable, but the main ideas here are not.
Why was Lindsey Vonn, the gold medalist alpine skier, often seen, eyes closed in a silent, mental, pre-race run down the course last olympics? Read this and find out. The book is a little long considering the relatively simple, straightforward ideas in it. The prologue from the revising author is entirely skippable, and forgettable, but the main ideas here are not.
December 29, 2015
Maxwell Maltz Quotes: Psycho-Cybernetics and Self-Image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAe8i...
- The self image is the key to change personality & behaviour, determines who we become, the outer matches the inner
- Self image is an imaginary you carry inside, effects your self talk
- Self image can help you see new possibilities, have better self talk/empowering thoughts
- Self image and habits go together. Changing one effects the other
- The battle is won in the mind, the rest is just play-through
- Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and an actual experience.
THIS IS HUGE YOUR BRAIN DOESN'T KNOW IF YOU DO SOMETHING WELL OR IMAGINE DOING IT WELL
-By visualising success/your desired outcome you can change your self image to achieve your goals.
Visualize your best self, daily; How do you want to be, feel and act?
Visualize how you want (new) events to go like
Write down your disempowering beliefs and identify what pain they cause in your life (pain/pleasure principle on beliefs)
- The self image is the key to change personality & behaviour, determines who we become, the outer matches the inner
- Self image is an imaginary you carry inside, effects your self talk
- Self image can help you see new possibilities, have better self talk/empowering thoughts
- Self image and habits go together. Changing one effects the other
- The battle is won in the mind, the rest is just play-through
- Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and an actual experience.
THIS IS HUGE YOUR BRAIN DOESN'T KNOW IF YOU DO SOMETHING WELL OR IMAGINE DOING IT WELL
-By visualising success/your desired outcome you can change your self image to achieve your goals.
Visualize your best self, daily; How do you want to be, feel and act?
Visualize how you want (new) events to go like
Write down your disempowering beliefs and identify what pain they cause in your life (pain/pleasure principle on beliefs)
March 23, 2015
Psycho Cybernetics is one of the original self help books on which most others are now based. It deals with the self-image and the role that it plays in a shaping a person's continued success or failure.
The author, Dr Maxwell Maltz, was a plastic surgeon who became interested in the dramatic personality changes of some of his patients after surgery. For many patients a physical defect (for example flappy ears) had imposed an artificial limit on the person's ability to succeed, and once the cosmetic defect had been rectified, so had the psychological limit been removed. Other patients went right on with the same damaged self image even after successful surgery. This prompted Dr Maltz to study this phenomenon and ultimately he changed his career in order to focus on it.
This book deals with a lot more than just improving your self image though. It is jam packed with invaluable insight into a range of issues, including mental disorders.
This book is a life changer and worth every cent, so why am I giving it only 1 star?
...because the author quotes the findings of animal experiments involving starving rats (chapter 13, under the heading 'Pressure Retards Learning') and wounding and restricting the movement of rats (chapter 15, under the heading 'Science's Search for the Elixer of Youth'). These bullshit experiments don't prove anything because we aren't rats and quoting their findings gives legitimacy to these cruel and unnecessary experiments. I really hope that in future editions the author leaves these out of an otherwise fantastic book.
The author, Dr Maxwell Maltz, was a plastic surgeon who became interested in the dramatic personality changes of some of his patients after surgery. For many patients a physical defect (for example flappy ears) had imposed an artificial limit on the person's ability to succeed, and once the cosmetic defect had been rectified, so had the psychological limit been removed. Other patients went right on with the same damaged self image even after successful surgery. This prompted Dr Maltz to study this phenomenon and ultimately he changed his career in order to focus on it.
This book deals with a lot more than just improving your self image though. It is jam packed with invaluable insight into a range of issues, including mental disorders.
This book is a life changer and worth every cent, so why am I giving it only 1 star?
...because the author quotes the findings of animal experiments involving starving rats (chapter 13, under the heading 'Pressure Retards Learning') and wounding and restricting the movement of rats (chapter 15, under the heading 'Science's Search for the Elixer of Youth'). These bullshit experiments don't prove anything because we aren't rats and quoting their findings gives legitimacy to these cruel and unnecessary experiments. I really hope that in future editions the author leaves these out of an otherwise fantastic book.
December 22, 2014
I quote the book: 'Dr. J. B. Rhine, head of Duke University's Parapsychology Laboratory, has proved experimentally that man has access to knowledge, facts, and ideas, other than his own individual memory or stored information from learning or experience. Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition have been established by scientific laboratory experiments. His findings, that man possesses some "extra sensory factor," which he calls "Psi," are no longer doubted by scientists who have seriously reviewed his work. As Professor R. H. Thouless of Cambridge University says, "The reality of the phenomena must be regarded as proved as certainly as anything in scientific research can be proved."'
Kennedy's updated edition also includes some self-contradictory and false information about nature vs. nurture (search for "heritage had little or nothing
to do with their success".) See the references at "Everything is heritable" for a scientific perspective: http://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2014/08
One bit of major nonsense in the first few chapters, I'll forgive, but not two.
Kennedy's updated edition also includes some self-contradictory and false information about nature vs. nurture (search for "heritage had little or nothing
to do with their success".) See the references at "Everything is heritable" for a scientific perspective: http://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2014/08
One bit of major nonsense in the first few chapters, I'll forgive, but not two.
May 26, 2018
One of the best books I've ever read. If there is a "secret" to success and happiness this is the closest thing.
Psycho Cybernetics is a book written by a plastic surgeon turned author. The author noticed changes in patients life and personality or the lack of changes after the surgery. Patient would become a completely different person after a successful surgery but also surprisingly some patients stayed the same.
The discovery author has made is that it is our 'Self Images' of ourselves that defines our life and happiness. It is what enables us to make extraordinary achievements but on the other hand could even kill us.
We are what we think we are. If we can deliberately change our thoughts of ourselves and visualize the success/happiness, our subconscious will run in the background to make it happen. Dont get me wrong, this isnt a cliche positive psychology of glass half full. Where you think good thoughts once and life will be sunshines and rainbows. But it is deliberate and hardwork of re wiring our brains to channel our thoughts to accomplish great things.
Must read, and must re-read for me.
Psycho Cybernetics is a book written by a plastic surgeon turned author. The author noticed changes in patients life and personality or the lack of changes after the surgery. Patient would become a completely different person after a successful surgery but also surprisingly some patients stayed the same.
The discovery author has made is that it is our 'Self Images' of ourselves that defines our life and happiness. It is what enables us to make extraordinary achievements but on the other hand could even kill us.
We are what we think we are. If we can deliberately change our thoughts of ourselves and visualize the success/happiness, our subconscious will run in the background to make it happen. Dont get me wrong, this isnt a cliche positive psychology of glass half full. Where you think good thoughts once and life will be sunshines and rainbows. But it is deliberate and hardwork of re wiring our brains to channel our thoughts to accomplish great things.
Must read, and must re-read for me.
October 21, 2009
Great book about how our perceptions create our reality. I recommend this to anyone who is wanting to change their lives in any way, shape or form. The author was a plastic surgeon and was able to change people's lives with a knife, but he learned that it took more than a change of the body to change someone's self image. It's an easy read and easy to follow book.
January 30, 2012
This book changed my life and my self-image and improved my self-esteem. This is one of the few books that I am going to keep on re-reading for the rest of my life.
February 21, 2011
The ceiling on your success is your self-image.
Fortunatey, this book shows you how to alter your self-image to truly reflect who you are, thereby letting your brilliance shine.
Alongside Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it ranks as the best self-help book ever. Almost everything written in the field since is derivative to a greater or lesser extent. It's the kind of book destined to become a classic because it's ideas are easy-to-understand and simple to practice, and yet take a lifetime to master.
Even small successes using Psycho-Cybernetics will make Olympic differences to your enjoyment of life.
Fortunatey, this book shows you how to alter your self-image to truly reflect who you are, thereby letting your brilliance shine.
Alongside Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it ranks as the best self-help book ever. Almost everything written in the field since is derivative to a greater or lesser extent. It's the kind of book destined to become a classic because it's ideas are easy-to-understand and simple to practice, and yet take a lifetime to master.
Even small successes using Psycho-Cybernetics will make Olympic differences to your enjoyment of life.
February 5, 2017
This book is one of the most powerful and transformational books I have ever read.
I came across this book at at time in my life - where my world felt was filled with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and more.
One of the key concepts that was truly healing was the idea of healing emotional scars with forgiveness. And there are plenty more ideas worth reading or listening to this book for.
What most people don't know - is that the original version of this book helped inspire and influence the creation of NLP (neuro linguistic programing) , and NLP later became some of the foundations for Tony Robbin's work.
I came across this book at at time in my life - where my world felt was filled with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and more.
One of the key concepts that was truly healing was the idea of healing emotional scars with forgiveness. And there are plenty more ideas worth reading or listening to this book for.
What most people don't know - is that the original version of this book helped inspire and influence the creation of NLP (neuro linguistic programing) , and NLP later became some of the foundations for Tony Robbin's work.
December 20, 2018
A very insightful book that expounds on the subconscious and conscious mode of action, on self image, and on how our subconscious mind is a goal striving servo-mechanism designated to achieve success. Not much of a clinical-jargon- ridden text but a very descriptive, common-sense kind of book, which also provides a series of mental excercies that prods you to ‘do’ and not just to think.
November 20, 2015
Its not the original New psycho cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz!! It is written by Dan kennedy, and is based ot the original "New psycho cybernetics" but much worst!! Read the Original from 1960s and re-publishied in1989!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 3, 2019
زیاد باهاش ارتباط برقرار نکردم.
برام از اون کتاب ها بود با حرف های حوصله سر بر همیشگی و تکراری . . .
برام از اون کتاب ها بود با حرف های حوصله سر بر همیشگی و تکراری . . .
December 31, 2019
If you have read Think and Grow Rich, which lists 13 steps to be successful, you should read this as well. This book explains methods to assist your thinking, make your goals less intimidating, remove negative thoughts, remove your inhibitors so that you can excel forward with ease... and many more benefits
The overall theme is the "Self-Image" - a picture of how we see ourselves. If you think you are a shy, coward, and timid individual, you'll behave the same. If you think you are a courage, confident and winning person, you can destroy any obstacles coming your way and live a fulfilled life.
Can we change our self-image? Certainly YES! It's what the book is for.
Many exercises and practices in the book have been applied and proven by successful people around the world. Now, it's your turn!
I rated it 4 stars because this edition changes some wordings from the original; making it longer and harder to follow. Some examples use golf, which is not a good example for us commoners.
The overall theme is the "Self-Image" - a picture of how we see ourselves. If you think you are a shy, coward, and timid individual, you'll behave the same. If you think you are a courage, confident and winning person, you can destroy any obstacles coming your way and live a fulfilled life.
Can we change our self-image? Certainly YES! It's what the book is for.
Many exercises and practices in the book have been applied and proven by successful people around the world. Now, it's your turn!
I rated it 4 stars because this edition changes some wordings from the original; making it longer and harder to follow. Some examples use golf, which is not a good example for us commoners.
January 9, 2021
Lots of good information and techniques to learn the ins and outs of the mind and the tools it provides. I like Dr. Maltz’ ideas on how the mind works. I don’t think you need to read the original Psycho-cybernetics to find value in this book. A good book to keep as a handbook and reread certain chapters as needed. 4 stars rather than 5 due simply to being dry at some points-which is to be expected in books like this anyways. 5 star content!
February 3, 2024
I thought it was ohhkay but truly I thought I was buying the original Psycho-Cybernetics, the one by Maxwell Maltz. This one was a recap with highlights that were interesting and probably pretty innovative at the time. It just didn’t seem as groundbreaking as I was presuming. Some good gems though. At one point he says the book is not about having positive thoughts, it’s about taking positive action, and that pretty much sums up the book. Got a workbook along with it to help guide me through the principles and activities from the book.
August 15, 2020
It is absolutely worth reading.
September 28, 2007
Bagi yang mau cara kerja pikiran..
Buku ini salah satu yang mungkin bisa menjawab pertanyaan Anda..
Inti yang ingin disampaikan buku ini tergambar dari cover buku ini.. Jika diperhatikan, cover buku ini adalah sebuah lukisan karya pelukis terkenal, Salvador Dali..
Lukisan ini menggambarkan perjalanan manusia yang terombang-ambing dalam lautan yang gelap tanpa tujuan (di gambar sebelah kiri) yang kemudian setelah mengetahu rahasia kehidupan, perahu tersebut berlayar dalam air yang tenang dalam suasana yang terang dan dengan tujuan yang pasti..!!!
Layak dibaca bagi mereka yang masih merasa "gelap"..
Cukup berat juga memghabiskan waktu untuk membaca buku yang lumayan tebal ini... :)
Jauh lebih cepat mambaca Harry Potter dalam jumlah halaman yang sama... ha..ha...
Have a nice reading...
Buku ini salah satu yang mungkin bisa menjawab pertanyaan Anda..
Inti yang ingin disampaikan buku ini tergambar dari cover buku ini.. Jika diperhatikan, cover buku ini adalah sebuah lukisan karya pelukis terkenal, Salvador Dali..
Lukisan ini menggambarkan perjalanan manusia yang terombang-ambing dalam lautan yang gelap tanpa tujuan (di gambar sebelah kiri) yang kemudian setelah mengetahu rahasia kehidupan, perahu tersebut berlayar dalam air yang tenang dalam suasana yang terang dan dengan tujuan yang pasti..!!!
Layak dibaca bagi mereka yang masih merasa "gelap"..
Cukup berat juga memghabiskan waktu untuk membaca buku yang lumayan tebal ini... :)
Jauh lebih cepat mambaca Harry Potter dalam jumlah halaman yang sama... ha..ha...
Have a nice reading...
June 6, 2012
Helps you to start embracing success. Even when the best strategy is within our grasp, we can still choose to reject it or embrace it, depending on how afraid we are of an unfamiliar healthy life. So if you're REALLY fed up with all the problems in your life that stem from your awful self-esteem, if you're honestly committed to finding a better existence, if you're ready to outsmart your fears, then this book will transform your life. It's just that simple. This book is too good to pass up. I highly recommend it.
August 31, 2016
I expected more, and I think I might enjoy the original version of this book better than this new version. I've read some of Dan Kennedy's work before, and I had a difficult time not hearing the copywriting voice he uses. Plus, I all I could see were the subtle advertisements all over the text for other peoples' work.
The thing I liked about the book is that it's clear Maxwell's ideas have influenced the entire field of self-improvement. This book is the foundation of the teachings of people like Tony Robbins.
I just couldn't get past all the actual copywriting language.
The thing I liked about the book is that it's clear Maxwell's ideas have influenced the entire field of self-improvement. This book is the foundation of the teachings of people like Tony Robbins.
I just couldn't get past all the actual copywriting language.
September 19, 2009
Brilliant book to give you inspiration, motivation and insight into our own emotions. Practical tips and examples of how to apply methods to your life.
June 24, 2012
This book supposedly created the self help genre- that's enough credibility for me. It was an incredible book!
November 25, 2014
This one is too prescriptive and tips and tricks are not my thing. MindGym is a better choice in this genre.
November 19, 2014
Book has nothing common with BD in IT
May 11, 2017
I don't know how many times I've read this book. But, I've finished it again. I think the author has a lot to say about human nature. It is like a 280 page is it I've meme.
June 24, 2017
possible re read. is good book
June 12, 2016
I don't usually read self-help books, but that one is a must!
October 20, 2016
158.1 MAL 2002
PLAYER 158.1 MAL 2002
First published in 1960 by Dr. Maltz, who is the first researcher of self-image study. Dr. Maltz said the purpose of all psychotherapy is to build the self-esteem, which I totally agree.
Main point of this book
1. important of self-image.
2. truly be yourself with its own limits and errors and wonders, use logical conscious mind to analyze unreasonable not truly yourself standard, establish truly to yourself goals.
3. invoke automatic success mechanism (ASM), avoid automatic failure mechanism (AFM), and our body will automatically achieve the goal, like guided torpedo.
My summary: this book is all about how to build self-image that controls what you can and can not accomplish, self-image is slight different from positive thinking, obvious 2 high related.
before I read this book, I have already figure out the important of self-image. The damage of emotional scar. To really change yourself, change your mind is the first step and it is the most hardest step. The idea of self-image as steersman, and "act as if " visualization are widely used in psychological treatment. You need another book How to Win Friends and Influence People to be social success. see more comment on that book.
Methods to change your mind:
1. The Theater of Mind p 56, rehearsal practice p57
2. Act as if p64, p87
3. Practicing in the head, Patty Carlson: "How to Play Piano Program" video program p58
4. I Never want to Do These things Again List p90
5. Gaining Emotional Poise by Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, 1944, like hour glass on your desk, it comes to us in single file. p 113
6. intense conscious focus on a problem for a period of time, and then let it go (free grip of our conscious mind), let our unconscious mind work on its magic.
Quotes from the book:
1. p1 Discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and compulsions of conformity.
1.p11 To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.' You must have a wholesome self-esteem. You must have a self that you can trust and believe in. You must have a self that you are not ashamed to be, and one that you can feel to express creatively, rather than hide to cover up. You must know yourself-both your strengths and your weakness -and be honest with yourself concerning both. Your self-image must be a reasonable approximation of "you", being neither more nor less than you.
When this self-image is intact and secure, you feel good. When it is threatened, you feel anxious and insecure. When it is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to be yourself and to express yourself. You function at your optimum. When self-image is an object of shame, you attempt to hide it rather than express it. Creative expressions blocked. You become hostile and hard to get along with.
2.p27,83 ,Your as creator of your own life experience = Rational Thinking leads to (1) Conscious mind decision + (2) Imagination communications Goal/Target to (3) Self-Image = (4) "Work Order" Instruction to Servo-mechanism.
2. Human beings always act and feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.
3. p50 You act and feel not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they like. Your have certain mental image of yourself, your world, and the people around you, and you behave as though these image was the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent.
4. p64-66 truth of yourself : is not to create a fictitious self that is all-powerful, arrogant, egoistic, all-important. Superiority complex is same as inferiority, superior self is a coverup, to hide from deep-down feeling of inferiority and insecurity. truth of yourself is a religion, The Fundamentalists is to "glorify God", Humanists is to "express himself fully". Liberating individuals from their own inner, mental, often unconscious self-sabotage, and the corollary premise of individuals being intended (if not engineered) to succeed, not fail.
5. 4 levels of learning
1. unconscious incompetence
2. conscious incompetence
3. conscious competence
4. unconscious competence
6. The essence of psycho-cybernetics is the accurate, calm, and ultimately automatic separation of fact from fiction, fact from opinion, actual circumstance from magnified obstacle, so that our actions and reactions are solidly based on truth, not our own or others' opinions. p123
7. p125 The picture of failure (FAILURE: acronym)
Frustration, hopelessness, futility
Aggressiveness (misdirected)
Insecurity
Loneliness (lack of "oneness")
Uncertainty
Resentment
Emptiness
8. p195-197 Forgiveness is not a weapon , either make us "good", or in a superior position, or win out over our enemy. or glib "Don't merely try to 'get even'- forgive your enemy and you 'get ahead' of him, are common fallacies regarding forgiveness. ...True forgiveness comes only when we are able to see, and emotionally accept, that there is and was nothing for us to forgive... This is, what therapeutic forgiveness is, and that it is the only type of forgiveness that really work, no strings attached.
9. p213 .Poise: 沉着自信: is the deliberate shunting aside of all fears arising from new and uncontrolled circumstances
10. p230 calm mind, calm body; calm body, calm mind (or tension will make muscle stiff will harm body health)
11. p245 To perform well in a crisis, we need to (1) learn certain skills under conditions where we ill not be over motivated; we need to practice without practice (2) We need to learn to react to crisis with an aggressive, rather than a defensive, attitude, to response to the challenge in the situation rather than to the menace, to keep our positive goal in mind. (3) We need to learn to evaluate so-called "crisis" situations in their true perspective, to avoid making mountains out of molehills..
p246 If the animal is over motivated, the cognitive map is narrow and restricted, it learns just one way to solve problem. Otherwise, it is broad and general... Practice without pressure and you will learn more efficiently and be able to perform better in a crisis situation.
p291 "We age, not by years, but by events and our emotional reactions to them. " Said Dr. by Arnold A. Hutschnecker
Chapters
1. The Self-Image: Your Key to Living Without Limits
2. How to Awaken the Automatic Success Mechanism Within You
3. Imagination — The Ignition Key to Your Automatic Success Mechanism
4. How to De-Hypnotize Yourself from False Beliefs
5. How to Succeed with the Power of Rational Thinking
6. How to Relax and Let Your Automatic Success Mechanism Work for You
7. You Can Acquire the Habit of Happiness
8. Ingredients of the “Success-type” Personality and How to Acquire Them
9. How to Avoid Accidentally Activating Your Automatic Failure Mechanism
10.How to Remove Emotional Scars and Give Yourself an Emotional Face Lift
11. How to Unlock Your Real Personality
12. Do-It-Yourself Tranquilizers that Bring Peace of Mind
13. How to Turn a Crisis into a Creative Opportunity
14. How to Get and Keep “That Winning Feeling”
15. More Years of Life and More Life in Your Years
16. True Stories of Lives Changed Using Psycho-Cybernetics
Mental training exercise. p41, p66, p81, p99, ... each chapter has a mental exercise.
Terms:
1. p19 limbic memory: controlled by 3 factors, authoritative source; intensity; repetition.
2. Cybernetics: Geek word meaning: the steersman.
3. Purpose tremor p250
4. Crisis: A Greek word, mean literally decisiveness, or point of decision.
books I think it is interesting to read:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People by David L. Weiner
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (classic reading)
Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient by Norman Cousins
Not so interesting:
The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance by Kay Porter (very interesting: relieving pain and accelerating recovery)
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
You're Working Too Hard To Make The Sale!: More Than 100 Insider Tools To Sell Faster And Easier by William T. Brooks
Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality by Prescott Lecky
How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People by Les Giblin
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
Profiles of Power and Success by Gene N. Landrum (argue nurture is the basis for success)
Break Out of the Box: A New Leadership Model for High Personal Achievement by Mike Vance
Mind Over Golf: How to Use Your Head to Lower Your Score by Richard H. Coop
Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life by Bill O'Hanlon
Zero-Resistance Selling: Achieve Extraordinary Sales Results Using World Renowned techqs Psycho Cybernetic by Maxwell Maltz
The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance by Kay Porter
The Stress of Life by Hans Selye
The Will To Live by Arnold A. Hutschnecker
PLAYER 158.1 MAL 2002
First published in 1960 by Dr. Maltz, who is the first researcher of self-image study. Dr. Maltz said the purpose of all psychotherapy is to build the self-esteem, which I totally agree.
Main point of this book
1. important of self-image.
2. truly be yourself with its own limits and errors and wonders, use logical conscious mind to analyze unreasonable not truly yourself standard, establish truly to yourself goals.
3. invoke automatic success mechanism (ASM), avoid automatic failure mechanism (AFM), and our body will automatically achieve the goal, like guided torpedo.
My summary: this book is all about how to build self-image that controls what you can and can not accomplish, self-image is slight different from positive thinking, obvious 2 high related.
before I read this book, I have already figure out the important of self-image. The damage of emotional scar. To really change yourself, change your mind is the first step and it is the most hardest step. The idea of self-image as steersman, and "act as if " visualization are widely used in psychological treatment. You need another book How to Win Friends and Influence People to be social success. see more comment on that book.
Methods to change your mind:
1. The Theater of Mind p 56, rehearsal practice p57
2. Act as if p64, p87
3. Practicing in the head, Patty Carlson: "How to Play Piano Program" video program p58
4. I Never want to Do These things Again List p90
5. Gaining Emotional Poise by Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, 1944, like hour glass on your desk, it comes to us in single file. p 113
6. intense conscious focus on a problem for a period of time, and then let it go (free grip of our conscious mind), let our unconscious mind work on its magic.
Quotes from the book:
1. p1 Discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and compulsions of conformity.
1.p11 To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.' You must have a wholesome self-esteem. You must have a self that you can trust and believe in. You must have a self that you are not ashamed to be, and one that you can feel to express creatively, rather than hide to cover up. You must know yourself-both your strengths and your weakness -and be honest with yourself concerning both. Your self-image must be a reasonable approximation of "you", being neither more nor less than you.
When this self-image is intact and secure, you feel good. When it is threatened, you feel anxious and insecure. When it is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to be yourself and to express yourself. You function at your optimum. When self-image is an object of shame, you attempt to hide it rather than express it. Creative expressions blocked. You become hostile and hard to get along with.
2.p27,83 ,Your as creator of your own life experience = Rational Thinking leads to (1) Conscious mind decision + (2) Imagination communications Goal/Target to (3) Self-Image = (4) "Work Order" Instruction to Servo-mechanism.
2. Human beings always act and feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.
3. p50 You act and feel not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they like. Your have certain mental image of yourself, your world, and the people around you, and you behave as though these image was the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent.
4. p64-66 truth of yourself : is not to create a fictitious self that is all-powerful, arrogant, egoistic, all-important. Superiority complex is same as inferiority, superior self is a coverup, to hide from deep-down feeling of inferiority and insecurity. truth of yourself is a religion, The Fundamentalists is to "glorify God", Humanists is to "express himself fully". Liberating individuals from their own inner, mental, often unconscious self-sabotage, and the corollary premise of individuals being intended (if not engineered) to succeed, not fail.
5. 4 levels of learning
1. unconscious incompetence
2. conscious incompetence
3. conscious competence
4. unconscious competence
6. The essence of psycho-cybernetics is the accurate, calm, and ultimately automatic separation of fact from fiction, fact from opinion, actual circumstance from magnified obstacle, so that our actions and reactions are solidly based on truth, not our own or others' opinions. p123
7. p125 The picture of failure (FAILURE: acronym)
Frustration, hopelessness, futility
Aggressiveness (misdirected)
Insecurity
Loneliness (lack of "oneness")
Uncertainty
Resentment
Emptiness
8. p195-197 Forgiveness is not a weapon , either make us "good", or in a superior position, or win out over our enemy. or glib "Don't merely try to 'get even'- forgive your enemy and you 'get ahead' of him, are common fallacies regarding forgiveness. ...True forgiveness comes only when we are able to see, and emotionally accept, that there is and was nothing for us to forgive... This is, what therapeutic forgiveness is, and that it is the only type of forgiveness that really work, no strings attached.
9. p213 .Poise: 沉着自信: is the deliberate shunting aside of all fears arising from new and uncontrolled circumstances
10. p230 calm mind, calm body; calm body, calm mind (or tension will make muscle stiff will harm body health)
11. p245 To perform well in a crisis, we need to (1) learn certain skills under conditions where we ill not be over motivated; we need to practice without practice (2) We need to learn to react to crisis with an aggressive, rather than a defensive, attitude, to response to the challenge in the situation rather than to the menace, to keep our positive goal in mind. (3) We need to learn to evaluate so-called "crisis" situations in their true perspective, to avoid making mountains out of molehills..
p246 If the animal is over motivated, the cognitive map is narrow and restricted, it learns just one way to solve problem. Otherwise, it is broad and general... Practice without pressure and you will learn more efficiently and be able to perform better in a crisis situation.
p291 "We age, not by years, but by events and our emotional reactions to them. " Said Dr. by Arnold A. Hutschnecker
Chapters
1. The Self-Image: Your Key to Living Without Limits
2. How to Awaken the Automatic Success Mechanism Within You
3. Imagination — The Ignition Key to Your Automatic Success Mechanism
4. How to De-Hypnotize Yourself from False Beliefs
5. How to Succeed with the Power of Rational Thinking
6. How to Relax and Let Your Automatic Success Mechanism Work for You
7. You Can Acquire the Habit of Happiness
8. Ingredients of the “Success-type” Personality and How to Acquire Them
9. How to Avoid Accidentally Activating Your Automatic Failure Mechanism
10.How to Remove Emotional Scars and Give Yourself an Emotional Face Lift
11. How to Unlock Your Real Personality
12. Do-It-Yourself Tranquilizers that Bring Peace of Mind
13. How to Turn a Crisis into a Creative Opportunity
14. How to Get and Keep “That Winning Feeling”
15. More Years of Life and More Life in Your Years
16. True Stories of Lives Changed Using Psycho-Cybernetics
Mental training exercise. p41, p66, p81, p99, ... each chapter has a mental exercise.
Terms:
1. p19 limbic memory: controlled by 3 factors, authoritative source; intensity; repetition.
2. Cybernetics: Geek word meaning: the steersman.
3. Purpose tremor p250
4. Crisis: A Greek word, mean literally decisiveness, or point of decision.
books I think it is interesting to read:
Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People by David L. Weiner
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (classic reading)
Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient by Norman Cousins
Not so interesting:
The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance by Kay Porter (very interesting: relieving pain and accelerating recovery)
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
You're Working Too Hard To Make The Sale!: More Than 100 Insider Tools To Sell Faster And Easier by William T. Brooks
Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality by Prescott Lecky
How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People by Les Giblin
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
Profiles of Power and Success by Gene N. Landrum (argue nurture is the basis for success)
Break Out of the Box: A New Leadership Model for High Personal Achievement by Mike Vance
Mind Over Golf: How to Use Your Head to Lower Your Score by Richard H. Coop
Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life by Bill O'Hanlon
Zero-Resistance Selling: Achieve Extraordinary Sales Results Using World Renowned techqs Psycho Cybernetic by Maxwell Maltz
The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance by Kay Porter
The Stress of Life by Hans Selye
The Will To Live by Arnold A. Hutschnecker
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