đź“–Psycho-cybernetics: updated and expanded
- authors
- Maltz, Maxwell
- year
- 2015
- pp.xix–xx Positive thinking works when it’s consistent with self-image and does not when it is not
- p.2 all your actions are consistent with self-image and you cannot act otherwise
- p.3 self-image can be changed
- p.4 personality is a system of ideas that must seem to be consistent
- p.5 self-consistency: A theory of personality by Lecky (out of print) #book
- p.12 subconscious mind is not a mind at all but a machine of brain and nervous system used by “conscious” mind. (There is a single mind.)
- the subconscious is a goal-striving machine (“Creative Mechanism”)
- p.13 mental images are our goal
- self-image is the most important of them
- p.13 our attitudes and interpretations define problems to solve
- p.20 unlike animals, man can set their own goals
- p.21 “cybernetics” from Greek = “steerman”
- p.22 man is not a machine but has a machine that he uses
- 2 types of servo-mechanism:
- pursuing goal
- move forward, make mistakes, correct them
- selecting goal
- the “goal” already exists—you just filter your options
- pursuing goal
- p.30 a man cannot develop a new self-image by pure will or arbitrary deciding to do so. There must be some justification why the previous image is incorrect and new image is appropriate.
- read ch.2 3 times per week for 21 day
- p.31 you only have to select the goal. the mechanism will sort its way through
- rehearse situations and imagine answering the most difficult questions and situations correctly
- p.84 if you can openly speak before friends, you can do public speaking—you only have to perceive audience as your friends
- p.84 “piano men” (I have never tried)
- §5 use your reason to shake off irrational beliefs
- §6 relax and let you machine work
- worry before you bet, not after
- be in the present moment
- do not multitask
- sleep on it
- relax while you work
- p.108 happy people are generally more successful (or vice versa?)
p.113
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. —Epictecus
- p.127 Success
- S—Sense of direction (have a goal, project(s) or a cause)
- U—Understanding (seek truth in the situation, not your guesses)
- C—Courage
- C—Compassion
- E—Esteem
- S—Self-confidence
- S—Self-acceptance
- p.146 Failure
- F—Frustration, hopelessness, futility → unrealistic goals
- A—Aggressiveness (misdirected)
- I—Insecurity
- L—Loneliness (lack of “oneness”)
- U—Uncertainty
- R—Resentment
- E—Emptiness
p.150 → You cannot correct your course if you’re standing still
You cannot correct your course if you’re standing still.
- Use these negative signs as symptoms/indicators and take corrective actions.
- p.200 disinhibition
- the people need to think before they say, but not you
- p.203 speak louder to disinhibit
- p.210 delay your response to stimuli (to calm down)
- p.228 learning without pressure creates broader “cognitive maps.” Learning under pressure ingrains one way of solving problem → Learning without pressure creates broader “cognitive maps”
- p.254 learn the feeling of success
- p.255 gradually increase difficulty
- p.281 the man does not peak at 25 and then decline. Latest findings show that man peak at ~35 and then maintain level until well past 70 → Man peaks at 35 and then maintains