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Yesterday on the podcast, I promised that I’m going to be back today with another incredible book that changed my life and numerous lives ever since it came out in the 1960s. Happy Monday morning to you all. Thank you. Welcome back to successful training. I’m talking about Dr. Maxwell Maltz. And his book, The Psycho-Cybernetics. This book came out in 1960. I did multiple podcasts about this book and how this book has impacted me and numerous other self-improvement seekers, many teachers of self-improvement, and many philosophers, I mean, this book has continued to stay in the top 10 self-help books every year. And it’s an all-time one of the all-time 50 classic self-help books ever published. So amazing. This is a must-read, every time I see and I’m coaching someone or mentoring someone, I insist that they read this book and read this book multiple times. I read this book at least once a year if I can, or maybe once every two years now, something like that. This book, I took some notes from this book, and I think I highlighted these notes before also as a part of another podcast episode. I’m gonna highlight that today. Because I just read the book. Okay. So let’s get into this.
The first and foremost thing is Dr. Maxwell’s knowledge. Before I get into that, before I get into that, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, was a cosmetic surgeon. He’s a doctor and cosmetic surgeon. And his practice was in New York, he stayed at the doctor, but he wrote this book, obviously. And he’s his core philosophy is that the reason why people succeed in life, or the pain, the success they’re seeking, is because of their self-image. Not because willpower is overrated. It says self-image. So if somebody’s self-image is low, they cannot get what they are seeking. And they will have stress, they could have ambitions, but the self-image is long. So along the way, they’re going to end up suffering from confidence issues and stress and anxiety and all that stuff. All those are byproducts of this.
So he says, in order to improve, in order to achieve anything you want to achieve, you need to improve your self-image. And all the work is based on self-image. He has some incredible quotes. I’m going to go through those quotes just in a second. But let’s get into some of the notes that I’ve taken from this book. The first and foremost is to compliment three people each day. And I’ll stay there I’ll stop there, you decide what that compliment is. Compliments are powerful. People love it. Give and you have as many to give. Yesterday, we talked about it, let’s give and said praise is an incredible compliment, right? So find three people and keep praising. As simple as that. He says to start writing a diary or a journal. So you can plan you can replenish yourself from, you know, some thoughts that might be going wrong, or you’ll realize that yourself, yeah, if you write a diary or you start a journal, he says replace negative thoughts with positive ones. And I went through that also, two days ago on the podcast talking about how to replace negative thoughts. Okay, if something is going wrong, something is not happening. And you see you start to see things are not falling in play, press the reset button, something went wrong, press the reset button you started a business didn’t work out, press reset, restart. You know always remember that there is a restart button and there’s a reset button. And there is always a restart.
See, it’s always a reset button everywhere. And there’s always a restart. then visualize the outcomes. See it in the mind to see it tell the subconscious mind that you can see the outcome and then everything you do is backward. I visualized myself being on Mount Everest and everything thereafter was very easy for me to do that preparation was easy. The Ascent was easier. Of course, it had it came with some challenges later on but then I could see myself in different camps I could see where I was eating when I was sleeping, I was looking at images of looking at videos, I was programming my mind to as if I’ve already gotten there. Easy when you see success all is backward. You know always look at the outcome that you’re going after and then or the goal that you want to accomplish, visualize it and then work backward is you got to recognize thought habits. And primarily those which don’t serve you if there is any thought you have right now that’s not serving you, that has to go away.
And then he says things that worked. You need to focus on them instead of things that did not work. The brain cannot sometimes see it didn’t work, but then we still go back to it. Like okay, this did not work and this word so that distinction has to be in play. There are so many takeaways from this book. I mean, this is a very, very small list. I’ll come back, maybe do a few more episodes, talking about some incredible lessons I took from this book. But these are these starts just to start. Maxwell Maltz incredible Pinker, who wrote fiction books. Also, in nonfiction fiction, obviously, nonfiction is self-help books, this book, Psycho-Cybernetics groundbreaking book, the bar is so high on this book, I don’t think many books will ever reach the bar that this book has set.
He has some incredible quotes that I have one point printed actually posted on my wall. In some of the quotes that I still read, you make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you. We make mistakes, mistakes don’t make us. This is an incredible one. “Emptiness is a symptom, you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.”, “You will act like the sort of a person you conceive yourself to be that’s a self-image is talking about. Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.”, “The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.” That’s a profound one. “We age not by years, but by events and our emotional reactions to them.” Profound. I hope you take a serious message from what Maxwell Maltz is saying if I were you, I would go get this book. If I were you, I would read this book. If I were you. I would reread this book. And if I were you, I will keep on rereading this book for the rest of my life, which I do. And I said this on this podcast. So you know, I’ve publicly committed to this now. Okay, which I do. I still have nothing, nothing to worry about committing to something that you’re not doing. So go get the book, read the book.
Yeah, we’ll stop here. I want to come back tomorrow. I’m going to talk about another incredible author who changed my life. Actually, you know what, maybe bigger than that. I’m going to talk about two authors tomorrow. Whom one I met one I did not but both of them changed my lives. Both of their life work. Change in my life. My life’s I only have one life. Okay. So incredible authors, wonderful people. One of them I met and we’ll talk about that tomorrow on the podcast, so stay tuned.