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Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life (平装)
by Maxwell Maltz
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Mind/Body, Inspiration, Personal transformation, Self help |
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This amazing bestseller shows the path to a dynamic new energy, self-esteem, success and happiness. |
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Magellan (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I hadn't for decades thought about Dr. Maltz's classic of self-help literature until a few days ago when I was having one of those "Where are they now?" reveries about several authors, and for some reason his book popped into my head. Maltz's book was a forerunner of the esteem literature and movement of the 70s but in some ways was never surpassed in its simplicity and relevance.
Dr. Maltz noticed in his medical practice that a very small change in a person's physical appearance often produced dramatic and positive results in that person's personality as a result of their now having a more positive physical self-image, which led him to his idea of developing a positive sense of self-worth based on eliminating false ideas and values and other similar negative thoughts. Maltz believed that people could indeed take control of their minds and using a number of simple but useful techniques you could re-engineer your own attitudes and beliefs and in the process become a happier and mentally healthier person.
Maltz's message is even more relevant today in a culture that if anything is even more appearance-obsessed than it was back then. The mass media's constant barrage of image-conscious messages is even more relentless now and his advice is as useful an antidote against such negative propa- ganda and a shallow and superficial culture that values appearance over substance as it was 40 years ago. Overall, still a classic in the field that is just as relevant today as it was four decades ago.
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Tony (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I bought Psycho-Cybernetics nearly 30 years ago andit still has a special place in my library. As most everybody knows, Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who became discourages when his patients showed no change in personality or happiness even after major plastic surgery. He thought that these people would be new and improved and they would be thrilled. It was t hen that he realized that while their outer selves had changed, their self image had stayed the same.
So Dr. Maltz went into research sudying what makes up the self image. The result is this book which is based on actual experiments with his clients. In short, after performing plastic surgery on his patients, he went to work on their self image as well and the difference was incredible!
Pyscho is of course short for psychology and cybernetics stands for helmsman. This cybernetic mechanism is goal seeking and it can be programmed. The problem is that most of us have been programmed negatively.
This book, the 29th printing, is 15 chapters and 280 pages. It is an easy and enlightening read and includes many exercises to complete which reprograms your cybernetic mechanism. If you haven's already read and studies this book, by all means do. If you already have, read it again.
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Smith (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
It's so easy to see how this book has sold over 30,000,000 copies. I can honestly say that I think this book has ended my search for the "perfect" self-help book.
After reading all the glowing reviews I decided to buy this book. Once I started it I couldn't put it down. I've had the book for one week now and I am already seeing results.
About 3 years ago I entered into the world of sales and all of a sudden I became painfully aware of my self-image or my self-esteem as others call it. I became very self-conscious and started down a slippery slope into the world of negative thinking and emotions that weren't helping me at all.
So I did what any person would do who wants to overcome their limiting beliefs and learn how to overcome negative thinking and I started buying self-help litereature. my library is chocked full of books from all the greats. Well I learned something from all the books that I read, but I just felt there was always something missing. I didn't feel like I had the information that I needed to really turn it all around. I tried "Affirmations" etc. with marginal results.
Then I found this book. Maxwell talks about how we act, feel and perform is in direct relation to how we imagine ourselves to be. You may need to read that last sentence again because it's what helped me to start putting it all together. He then gives techniques for changing your self-image and overcoming your negative thinking that really works.
I'm very grateful to Maxwell for writing this book. He really put his heart into it and made a masterpiece!
Please don't make the mistake of not buying this book. It could well be the best money you ever spent! God Bless!
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
It's been decades since I first read this book - I'm now digging it out for a second read - but it identified some absolutely crucial aspects of the human mind that to my knowledge have either never been adequately presented elsewhere or never given the emphasis they deserve.
The analogy of the mind to a computer is dead-on accurate, with the conscious mind being the "programmer" of the subconscious; the subconscious being the machine-language "operating system" that just does what it's programmed to do, whether positive or negative. Absolutely brilliant and in a way frightening - in the fact of the sheer quantity of people walking the Earth who are utterly ignorant of that fundamental structure of their sole survival tool: their brain. The only other book this vital to human self-awareness is Rand's Intro to Objectivist Epistemology (and of course her philosophical novels.) These all fall into the category of "Goldmines of information that no one else - not your parents, your teachers, certainly not your preachers, your politicians, and sadly, even most licensed psychotherapists - will tell you."
Particularly enlightening - and applicable to so many vital situations in life - is Maltz' identification of the "21 day" phenomenon: the fact that the human mind takes almost exactly 21 days to adjust to a major life change, universally - whether it's a negative like a loss of a limb or a loved one, a change of employment or residence, or positive like entering into a new romantic relationship.
Ever wonder how many couples have broken up because after roughly three weeks the "magic" seems to have dissipated? How in ignorance of this natural aspect of the human mind they automatically assume there was something fundamentally flawed with their relationship? Sad, and so unnecessary.
Read this book if you haven't already, and discover how to operate the complex computational instrument that is your mind.
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John (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I don't make it a habit to read self-help books, but the iconoclastic fitness guru Matt Furey has made a killing on selling a program based off of Maltz's work and most other "motivational speakers" usually bend a knee in respect to this forerunner of a genre. So I picked up a cheap used copy and read it cover to cover. The only question I have left is why anyone would bother with other self-help literature.
Firstly, Maltz had the raw clinical experience necessary to write this kind of book. As a crackerjack plastic surgeon he saw immediately and firsthand the life changing power of self-image at work in the faces of his patients, rather than slowly through lengthy sessions on the leather couch. (And anyone who scoffs at unorthodox contributors to a research field ought to know that Albert Einstein was working for the Swiss patent office when he submitted the General Theory of Relativity.) Yet Maltz also confesses where exactly the strength of his knowledge lies rather than try to convince the reader of his omniscience.
Secondly, Maltz was receptive to many fundamental tenets of psychology and works them into Psycho Cybernetics with good evidence and clear explanation. He stays away from the controversial and bizarre theories that would grab attention and make sales. Nor does he try to repackage ancient metaphysical hokum with inane and feeble examples.
Thirdly, there are no workshops, special reports, live phone help, or products to buy. (Though I cannot speak for the organization that has cropped up around Maltz's name.) All pretense and exaggeration for marketing purposes are absent from his book.
Maltz was definitive and unequivocal in his ideas, quick to set a standard and stick to it. He concerned himself with some very fundamental existential issues of life and appears to have understood that some modest philosophizing was necessary to maintain a thesis both logically consistent and convincingly useful. It rises high above the haphazard pop philosophy/ ethics smeared all over mass media which are either shallow and weak or imperiously stupid. Maltz simply faced the truth of his own convictions. Psycho-Cybernetics by no means outlines life management skills as an exact science, but its suggestions are intellectually compelling, its directions and procedures concrete. Overall, the book is worthwhile because Maltz' honest and uncondescending style at least earns your respect, if not your belief. |
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Raza (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
After only reading 3 chapters of this book, I already consider it to be the best self-help book I've ever read. Dr. Maltz scientifically explains how our minds are engineered for success. Just like a heat-seeking missile, our minds are wired to achieve goals that we set out i.e. more sales, better relationships, healthy lifestyle, etc.
He discusses a case study where a group of basketball players was told to practice shooting freethrows by imagining that they are shooting the ball in their mind (without touching a basketball). After a few weeks, their free- throw shooting percentage increased 23%! This is compared to another group that was told to practice by actually shooting the ball, who increased their percentage by 24%!
He proves that by setting goals, and rehearsing in your mind, you can do anything. This is because the sub-conscious mind doesn't know the difference between "real" experiences and "imagined" ones. Your brain is actually like a heat-seeking missile, once you identify a target/goal, your subconscious mind will find a way to accomplish it. He rationally proves that your mind IS that powerful.
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Carmen Mathew (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Read this book with a commitment to get everything that you can possibly get out of it. This is about being human, taking responsibility for your experiences, and seeing your way through to all sorts of success.
Last year, I read this book twice, (the 1960 version). And from the notes that I wrote in the margins, I see how I have evolved, tremendously.
While I enhanced my life, last year, as a result of what I learned from reading this book, twice. I still had trouble with visualizations, because I kept telling myself that I am not a visual person.
This year, having just read this book, and having decided to be visual, I create visions of myself being and doing what I most aspire to be and do. In fact, as I was finishing this 3rd read, I was also in a meeting that looked like I was going to lose a lot of money.
During our break, I read more of this book, and peacefully wrote out what I wanted out of this meeting, when all was said and done.
And 10 minutes after I wrote those details down, with a relaxed frame of mind, I got everything that I wanted.
Read this book to see yourself where you want to be. You will be doing things that you want and love to do, naturally.
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Leung (MSL quote), Canada
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Napoleon Hill founded the laws of success, Dale Carnegie taught us how to win friends and Maxwell Maltz taught us how to live it all. This book has in my opinion, what 99.9% of books will forever lack - and that's common sense. There is no need for hype, Maltz speaks the truth which is refreshing in this day and age. He teaches (and in my opinion was the first to teach) the art of compassion, self- respect, relaxation, forgiveness and the art of being a professional human being. In this book you will learn that it doesn't matter how many success principles you know, that if you really want to change you must do so through the self-image -the foundation for all success. It is a book filled with wisdom, humor and hope. So if you want to change and live a better life overall, then buy this book. Take a knife and cut through the diddle daddle and motivation found in those other so-called self-help books. After all, how many other authors have 33 million copies in print over a 40 year life span? BUY IT! |
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Bob (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Being a motivational junkie, I have personally spent a lifetime jumping from book to book in hope of finding the perfect one that would lead me to success and happiness. This one ended the search.
The thing that's so likeable about Maltz's writing style is that it is simple and direct, with no bells, whistles or gimmicks. It's easy to read and understand. Too many so-called self-help authors try to make themselves look big and impressive, by using useless jargon to complicate their work. Not Maltz, he was genuinely interested in helping others and you can feel it from reading his work or listening to the tapes.
Too many books give you a pump up and ask you to plow through them again in order to keep the motivation going. But this book is different in that it forces an individual to plow deep within themselves to "fix the cause" of their failures so they can succeed without constantly having to apply will power. It is a self-improvement book based on science and scientific fact. Using this book I was able to start my own business and it has been successfully running for 4 years now.
My only complaint about this book, is that the cover is the most ugliest and unattractive I've ever seen ( But you know the saying about judging a book by it's cover). My advice would be to buy the book. Why not? It costs practically nothing and is more effective than most of the stuff that comes out today. I would also advise you to listen to the tapes also and avoid the 2000 version written by Bobbe Summers. And don't worry about geting bored, this book is a pleasure to read. No wonder it's sold over 30 million copies.
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El (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Books like this do not deserve any negative reviews. This book really changed my life. But of course, you got to understand it, analyze it. And I recommend taking notes, it really helps. Now, if you think you don't need a self help book then do not read it. As a computer engineer, I think it is also helpful as a guide to how our minds get programmed. |
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