“Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.”
The work introduces a system for personal development based on the premise that individuals can steer their lives toward desired outcomes by understanding and directing their own mental processes. Drawing analogies between the human nervous system and servo-mechanisms in machines, it suggests that the mind functions as an automatic guidance system that moves toward targets set by one's self-image. The core methodology emphasizes the regular practice of vividly imagining successful outcomes, which is posited to train the subconscious to recognize opportunities and solutions aligned with those visualized goals. The text addresses how self-perception shapes behavior and external results, advocating for deliberate reconstruction of one's self-concept to overcome limiting beliefs and habitual patterns. It covers techniques for relaxation, concentration, and the cultivation of what it terms a success-oriented personality structure. The book has been widely circulated in personal improvement circles and has influenced subsequent thinking in areas such as sports psychology, business motivation, and cognitive behavioral approaches to performance enhancement. more
Maxwell Maltz was a renowned author, born on March 10, 1899, and passed away on April 7, 1975. His works primarily focused on personal growth and self-improvement, profoundly influencing modern psychology and the self-help movement. more
“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.”
“With a smile we should instruct our youth.”