Book Notes: Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
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35 min readApr 17, 2018
CHAPTER 1: Self image — Your Key to Living Without Limits
- You will do what you think you are
- Jesus warned us not to put a patch of new material on an old garment. “positive thinking” cannot patch an old self-image
A system of ideas
- Prescott Lecky, pioneer in self-image psychology (author Self Consistency, a theory of Personality) said: personality is a system of ideas that must be consistent with each other, or be rejected (not believed)
- Maltz’s book on the link between plastic surgery and personality change: New Faces, New Futures
- To really live, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can live with…a self acceptable to you.
- You must know yourself and be honest about both strengths and weaknesses.
- What all of us want is more life (happiness, success, peace of mind, whatever)
- To the degree that we reject the gift of life, we embrace death.
the professions of psychology and psychiatry are often far too pessimistic regarding people and their potential for self-directed change, even…
