Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Maxwell Maltz stumbled onto his big idea in the operating room. As a plastic surgeon, he kept noticing that patients who got the new nose or chin they had wanted often walked out no more confident or happy than they walked in. He had changed their faces but not the picture they carried of themselves, and it turned out the picture was what governed their lives. Your self-image is a mental blueprint, and your nervous system reacts to it as though it were fact. That’s the core of the book: you will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be, whether or not that conception is accurate. See yourself as a failure and you’ll find ways to fail; see yourself as capable and you’ll find ways to succeed. Low self-esteem, as Maltz puts it, “is like driving through life with your handbrake on.”

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Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life