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More Wisdom in Less Time Brian Johnson’s “Creative striving for a goal that is important to you as a result of your own deep-felt needs, aspirations and talents (and not the symbols which the ‘Jones’ expect you to display) brings happiness as well as success becau you will be functioning as you were meant to function. Man is by nature a goal-striving being. And becau man is ‘built that way’ he is not happy unless he is functioning the way he was made to function—as a goal-striver. Thus true success and true happiness not only go together but each enhances the other.”~ Maxwell Maltz from Psych0-Cybernetics Psycho-Cybernetics. Funny name. Great book! Maxwell Maltz was a world-renowned plastic surgeon who discovered that, while some people’s lives changed dramatically after he altered their appearance through plastic surgery, some people’s lives *didn’t*. He deduced that the primary factor that differentiated the groups was their lf-image—not what they saw in the mirror but the images they had of themlves in their MINDS. Cool stuff.He spent the cond half of his career merging this lf-image psychology with the then-popular science of “cybernetics”—which studies how things like guided missiles or “rvo-mechanisms” hit their targets through a clear goal and constant adjustment of their cour.This book is *packed* with Big Ideas. If you’re feelin’ it, I definitely recommend you check it out along with the audio stuff you can find on A
mazon.For now, let’s start by defining Cybernetics and learning what we have in common with a guided missile. :)CYBERNETICS: SERVO-MECHANISMS & YOU “The word ‘Cybernetics’ comes from a Greek word which means literally, ‘the steersman.’ Servo-mechanisms are so constructed that they automatically ‘steer’ their way to a goal, target, or ‘answer.’ When we conceive of the human brain and nervous system as a form of rvo-mechanism, operating with Cybernetic principles, we gain a new insight into the why and wherefore of human behavior. I choo to call this new concept ‘Psycho-Cybernetics’: the principles of Cybernetics as applied to the human brain.”Cybernetics . It’s Greek for “steersman.” Cool.Here’s the easiest way to get what “Cybernetics” and what a “rvo-mechanism” are all about: Think of how a guided missile works. First: You need to t a target (or “goal”). Then, you launch the missile (take action!). From there, the missile us its mechanical “ns” (whether that’s radar or sonar or heat or whatever) to stay on target (they call that “positive feedback”). When it’s not on target, it gets “negative feedback” and simply adjusts its cour so it’s BACK on track.REALLY powerful stuff. And a GREAT parallel to how WE operate. Psycho-Cybernetics A New Technique for Using Your SUBCONSCIOUS POWER BY MAXWELL MALTZ · WILSHIRE BOOK COMPANY © 1967 · 254 PAGES THE BIG IDEAS
Cybernetics
Servo-mechanisms & you.
The Success Instinct
We’ve all got it!
Imagination
The first key.
Dehypnotize Yourlf!
Starting now. :)
Rational Thought
How to u it.
“Natural” Behavior
& Trusting yourlf.
Acquire the Habit
What’re you wearing?
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What’re Your Goals
Well, what are they?
Nobody’s Right
...All the time.
Feel Successful!
Super important.
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“Every human being has
been literally ‘engineered for success’ by his Creator.
Every human being has泥塑教程
access to a power greater than himlf.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
Here’s something el to consider:THE SUCCESS INSTINCT “A squirrel does not have to be taught how to gather nuts. Nor does it need to learn that it should store them for winter. A squirrel born in the spring has never experienced winter. Yet in the fall of the year it can be obrved busily storing nuts to be eaten during the winter months when there will be no food to be gathered. A bird does not need to take lessons in nest-building. Nor does it need to take cours in navigation. Yet birds do navigate thousands of miles, sometimes over open a. They have no newspapers or TV to give them weather reports, no books written by explorer or pioneer birds to map out for them the warm areas of the earth. Nonetheless the bird ‘knows’ when cold weather is imminent and the exact location of a warm climate even though it may be thousands of miles away.”Have you watched ‘The March of the Penguins ’—the French documentary that tracks the march of the emperor penguins to their breeding spot in the Antartic?If you’re like me, you were probably shaking your head in AWE at the amazing intelligence that guide tho beautiful creatures year after year after year after… Maltz calls that their “Success Instinct.” It’s that somethin’-somethin’ that KNOWS. And, it’s not just in penguins or squirrels or other animals. It’s in ALL OF US. We have a latent drive within us that KNOWS what’s best for us.Deepak talks about it in his Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (e Notes). It’s part of his 4th Law: The Law of Least Effort . He says: “Grass doesn’t try to grow, it just grows. Fish don’t try to swim, they just swim. Flowers don’t try to bloom, they bloom. Birds don’t try t
o fly, they fly. This is their intrinsic nature.”In his classic As a Man Thinketh (e Notes), James Allen captures this intelligence in his amazing wisdom: “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the edlings of realities.”And I even named my last business after the Dutch word for “ed” (Zaadz) becau I’m so in love with this idea that there’s a force that’s much bigger than us that’s driving us to become what we’re destined to become. (In fact, that James Allen quote was on our stationery. :)So, the point here is simple: You have a success instinct. Nature has equipped you with an intelligence that is FAR greater than your conscious/rational mind. It’s called your “subconscious mind.” And, that’s why the sub-title to the book is: “A New Technique for Using Your SUBCONSCIOUS POWER.”OK. Now, let’s look at some of the Big Ideas on how to make all this work!IMAGINATION—THE FIRST KEY “A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himlf and his environment.”Translation: If you have limited thoughts about yourlf, you will produce limited results, “For imagination ts the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not becau of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but becau of imagination.”Abraham-Hicks describe this brilliantly. They like to say that “working hard” without a proper, positive mind t is kinda like going river rafting and paddling UPstream. It’s a lot of work, you don’t get too far and yo
u’re exhausted afterwards! As they say, it’s a LOT easier if you just point yourlf downstream by imagining your ideal, feeling into that and taking inspired action as you “There is one mind common to all men.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
live as if that which you desire is already yours in a virtual escrow account.As Maltz says: “Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.” So, his recommendation is simple: Why not imagine yourlf successful Maltz advis that
you spend 30 minutes every day imagining yourlf rockin’ it.
“Imagine how you would feel if you were already the sort of personality you want to be. If you have been shy and timid, e yourlf moving among people with ea and poi—and feeling good becau of it. If you have been fearful and anxious in certain situations—e yourlf acting calmly and deliberately, acting with confidence and courage—and feling expansive and confident becau y皮肤基础知识
ou are.”
He continues: “This exerci builds new ‘memories’ or stored data into your mid-brain and central nervous system. It builds a new image of lf. After practicing it for a time, you will be surprid to find yourlf ‘acting differently,’ more or less automatically and spontaneously—‘without trying.’”
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So, get on that! Imagine your ideal lf facing the challenges you have in your life. Do this
consistently and you’ll find your lf-image shifting and your actions more and more effortlessly aligning with this higher vision of your lf.
DEHYPNOTIZE YOURSELF!
“It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent, either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others, or ideas he has repeated to himlf or convinced himlf are true. The negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.”Have you ever watched a professional hypnotist at work and en him get people under his spell and then get ‘em to do some *wacky* stuff? It’s amazing to e.
Maltz shares a bunch of examples—from a championship weight-lifter who was hypnotized and told he was so weak he couldn’t lift a pencil off a table (and then couldn’t!) to a football player who was told his hand was stuck to the table—and, therefore, wasn’t able to lift it! He describes
another t of experiments where people were POSITIVELY affected by hypnosis (e.g., simply telling people they were strong incread their strength).Now, the fascinating thing to remember here is that their ACTUAL strength was not affected. However, the power of our subconscious mind is SO powerful that when we simply BELIEVE something, it works in mysterious ways to make tho beliefs reality.Stunning.So, Maltz makes the point that we’re ALL hypnotized to some extent or another. We’ve been conditioned by our parents, friends, television, etc. to believe certain things. The question is: Are the beliefs the ones we want running the show? It’s time to “dehypnotize” ourlves and re-program our minds with the beliefs we WANT running the show. As Maltz so beautifully says: “Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourlf to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you change your beliefs.”RATIONAL THOUGHT “In short, conscious rational thought lects the goal, gathers information, concludes, evaluates, estimates and starts the wheels in motion. It is not, however, responsible for results. We must
“Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so.”
~ Emile Coue “Here again, hypnosis furnishes convincing proof. When a shy, timid, wallflower is told in hypnosis, and *believes* or ‘thinks’ he is a bold, lf-confident orator, his reaction patterns are changed *instantly*. He currently acts as he currently believes. His attention is given over completely to the positive desired goal—and no thought or consideration whatsoever is given to past failures.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
婴儿呛奶learn to do our work, act upon the best assumptions possible, and leave results to take care of themlves.”A key aspect of Psycho-Cybernetics is the idea that our subconscious mind is the dominant force in creating our ideal lives.Maltz makes it clear that our rational/conscious mind is ud as the “control knob” of our unconscious machine. Our thinking mind choos the goals we want to go after and gets the ball rolling. From there, we take action as we relea our attachments to the results!Unfortunately, as Maltz says: “Becau modern man does depend almost entirely upon his forebrain he becomes too careful, too anxious, and too fearful of ‘results,’ and the advice of Jesus to ‘take no thought for the morrow,’ or of St. Paul to be ‘careful in nothing,’ is regarded as impractical nonn.”“NATURAL” BEHAVIOR & TRUSTING YOURSELF “Skill in any performance,
宣讲稿怎么写whether it be in sports, in playing the piano, in conversation, or in lling merchandi, consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed, but in relaxing, and letting the job do itlf through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as oppod to lf-conscious and studied.”Brilliant. That’s from a chapter called “Letting Your Success Mechanism Work for You.”It’s almost *exactly* what John Eliot says in his great book Overachievement (e Notes): “To be sure, great performers are well trained, experienced, smart, and in some cas, divinely talented. But the way their brains work during a performance is a lot more like a squirrel’s than like Einstein’s. Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities—they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the ‘Trusting Mindt.’ Routine access to the Trusting Mindt is what parates great performers from the rest of the pack.”Point is simple: There’s a time to “train” (thru visualization, practice, etc.) and there’s a time to perform. When you’re out there performing, turn your conscious brain off and let your subconscious “Success Mechanism” go to work! WEAR THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS “Our lf-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. The word ‘habit’ originally meant a garment or clothing… Our habits are literally garments worn by our personalities. They are not accidental, or happenstance. We have them becau they fit us. They are consistent with our lf-image and our entire personality pattern.
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our lf-image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.”Habit . Did you know the word originally meant clothes or garments? Love the way Maltz describes our habits “fitting” our personalities.So, how are YOUR clothes, er, habits? You rockin’ the style you wanna be en in or are you still wearing tattered, mis-fitting hand-me-downs from a less evolved version of you Know that if you want to change your personality, the fastest way is to change your habits. Time to clean out your clot and go shopping for some new habits!Shopping spree: What ONE new habit do you need to develop in your life?Clot clean: What ONE old habit needs to go? “He must have a burning
desire to solve the problem. But, after he has defined
the problem, es in his
imagination the desired end result, cured all the
information and facts that he can, then additional struggling, fretting and
worrying over it does not
help, but ems to hinder the solution.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
“Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
WHAT’RE YOUR GOALS “We are engineered as goal-eking mechanisms. We are built that way. When we have no personal goal which we are interested in and which ‘means something’ to us, we are apt to ‘go around in circles,’ feel ‘lost’ and find life itlf ‘aimless,’ and ‘purpoless.’ We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themlves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription : Get yourlf a goal worth working for.”
Genius.
So, what’s your *major* goal right now
游戏活动方案Do you have one? Are you moving toward it?
If not, imagine riding a bike. Only imagine NOT going anywhere. Try sitting on the at, without letting your feet touch the ground and lemme know how that works out for you.
Bikes were made to MOVE and, as Maltz says: “A bicycle maintains its poi and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It is no wonder you feel shaky.”
Love that. If you’re feeling funky, check in and e if you have a goal that really inspires you. My hunch is, the wor you feel, the less likely you have a compelling goal. Good news is that’s EASY to change. Set a goal that inspires you—could be something as mundane as cleaning your hou while listening to great music or an athletic goal like doing a triathlon or a big goal like starting a new biz or relationship. Whatever it is, go for it!
NOBODY’S RIGHT ALL THE TIME
“Realize that it is not required that a man be 100 per cent right at all times. No baball batter has ever had a 1000 average. If he is right three times out of ten he is considered good. The great Babe
Ruth, who holds the record for the most home runs, also holds the record for the most strike-outs. It is in the nature of things that we progress by acting, making mistakes, and correcting cour.”
Are you afraid of making mistakes? If so, Tony Robbins, Elbert Hubbard, Thomas Edison and Napoleon Hill would like a word with you.
Robbins (e Notes) says: “Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgment.”
Hubbard says: “The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.”
It took Edison 10,000 “failures” to figure out the light bulb. He said: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Napoleon Hill says in Think and Grow Rich (e Notes): “If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, becau of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of tho which fail.”
In short: Get out there and GO FOR IT. Ready, fire, aim.
As you take action (like riding the bike from above), you naturally discover the cour that’ll take you to your desired outcome. If you just sit there though… you’re in trouble!“Continually criticizing yourlf for past mistakes and errors does not help matters, but on the other hand tends to perpetuate the very behavior you would change.”
~ Maxwell Maltz “The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “I don’t like the cold, preci, perfect people,
who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”~ Henry Ward Beecher
