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Do
you
want
a
better
life?
According
to
the
author
of
the
following
article,
the
solution is easy. Simply change the way you look at yourself
- and you will change
the way you live. Improving your self-image is your key to living a better life.
Your Key to a Better Life
by Maxwell Maltz


The
most
important
psychological
of
this
century
is
the
discovery
of
the

blueprint
or
picture
of
ourselves.
It
may
be
vague
and
ill-defined
to
our
conscious
gaze. In fact, it may not be consciously recognizable at all. But it is there, complete
down to the last detail. This self-image is our own conception of the
am.
It
has
been
built
up
from
our
own
beliefs
about
ourselves.
But
most
of
these
beliefs
about
ourselves
have
unconsciously
been
formed
our
past
experiences,
our
successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have
reacted to
us, especially in
early childhood.
From
all these we mentally construct
a


or a picture of a self

. Once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this
picture it becomes
its validity, but proceed to act upon it just as if it were true.


This
self-image
becomes
a
golden
key
to
living
a
better
life
because
of
two
important discoveries:


1.
All
your
actions,
feelings,
behavior
——

even
your
abilities
——

are
always consistent with this self-image.


In short, you will
only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts
or will power. The man who conceives himself to be a
some
way
to
fail,
in
spite
of
all
his
good
intentions,
or
his
will
power,
even
if
opportunity is literally dumped in his lap. The person who conceives himself to be a
victim of injustice, one
to verify his opinions.


The self-image is
a
a
foundation upon which
your entire
personality, your behavior, and even your circumstances are built. Because of this our
experiences seem to verify, and thereby strengthen our self-images, and a vicious or a
beneficent cycle, as the case may be, is set up.


For example, a schoolboy who sees himself as an

in
mathematics,
will
invariably
find
that
his
report
card
bears
him
out.
He
then
has

A
young
girl
who
has
an
image
of
herself
as
the
sort
of
person
nobody likes, will find indeed that she is
avoided at
the school
dance. She literally
invites
rejection.
Her
woebegone
expression,
her
hang-dog
manner,
her
over-anxiousness
to
please,
or
perhaps
her
unconscious
hostility
towards
those
she
anticipates will affront her - all act to drive away those whom she would attract. In the

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same manner, a salesman or a businessman will also find that his actual experiences
tend to


Because
of
this
objective

it
very
seldom
occurs
to
a
person
that
his
trouble lies in his self-image or his own evaluation of himself. Tell the schoolboy that
he only
and tried, and still his report card tells the story. Tell the salesman that it is only an
idea that he cannot earn more than a certain figure, and he can prove you wrong by his
order book. He knows only too well how hard he has tried and failed. Yet, as we shall
see later, almost miraculous changes have occurred both in grades of students, and in
the
earning
capacity
of
salesmen
-
when
they
were
prevailed
upon
to
change
their
self-images.


2. The self-image can be changed. Numerous case histories have shown that one
is never too young nor too old to change his self- image and thereby start to live a new
life.


One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his
personality,
or
his
way
of
life,
has
been
that
heretofore
nearly
all
efforts
at
change
have
been
directed
to
the
circumference
of
the
self,
so
to
speak,
rather
than
to
the
center. Numerous patients have said to me something like the following:
talking about 'positive thinking', I've tried that before, and it just doesn't work for me.
However,
a
little
questioning
invariably
brings
out
that
these
individuals
have
employed

thinking,
or
attempted
to
employ
it,
either
upon
particular
external circumstances, or upon some particular habit or character defect


that job.
turn out right for me,


But they had never thought to change their thinking of
the


Jesus warned us about the folly of putting a patch of new material upon an old
garment, or of putting new wine into old bottles.
effectively
as
a
patch
or
a
crutch
to
the
same
old
self-image.
In
fact,
it
is
literally
impossible to really think positively about a particular situation, as long as you hold a
negative
concept
of
self.
And,
numerous
experiments
have
shown
that
once
the
concept of self is changed, other things consistent with the new concept of self, are
accomplished easily and without strain.


One
of
the
earliest
and
most
convincing
experiments
along
this
line
was
conducted by the late Prescott Lecky, one of the pioneers in self- image psychology.
Lecky conceived of the personality as a
be
consistent
with
each
other.
Ideas
which
are
inconsistent
with
the
system
are
rejected,
the system are accepted. At the very center of this system of ideas
——

the keystone
——

the
base
upon
which
all
else
is
built,
is
the
individual's

ideal,
his

or
his
conception
of
himself.
Lecky
was
a
school
teacher
and
had
an
opportunity to test his theory upon thousands of students.


Lecky theorized that if a student had trouble learning a certain subject, it could
be because

from the student's point of view


it would be inconsistent for him to
learn
it.
Lecky
believed,
however,
that
if
you
could
change
the
student's

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self- conception, which underlies this viewpoint, his attitude toward the subject would
change accordingly. If the student could be induced to change his selfdefinition, his
learning
ability
should
also
change.
This
proved
to
be
the
case.
One
student
who
misspelled 55 words out of a hundred and flunked so many subjects that he lost credit
for a
year, made a
general
average of 91 the next
year and became one
of the best
spellers in school. A boy who was dropped from one college because of poor grades,
entered Columbia and became a straight
flunked Latin
four times, after three talks with the school counselor, finished with a grade of 84. A
boy
who
was
told
by
a
testing
bureau
that
he
had
no
aptitude
for
English,
won
honorable mention the next year for a literary prize.


The trouble with these students was not that they were dumb, or lacking in basic
aptitudes. The trouble was an inadequate self-image


mind

. They
failures.
Instead
of
saying

failed
that
test

factual
and
descriptive


they
concluded
failure.
those who are interested in leaning more of
Lecky's work,
I recommend securing a
copy
of
his
book:
self
consistency,
a
Theory
of
Personality.
The
Island
Press,
Now
York, N.Y
.


NEW WORDS


blueprint


n.

a design for a building or machine, with white lines on blue paper; a detailed
plan or scheme


vague


a.

not clear or distinct


ill-defined


a.

not adequately explained; not well marked out; unclear


recognizable


a.

that can be recognized, identifiable


conception


n.

general understanding, idea; the act of forming an idea, plan, etc.


humiliation


n.

the
act
or
process
of
lowering
pride,
dignity
or
self-respect;
the
state
or
feeling of being humiliated


triumph


n.

the act of winning; success


v.

be victorious or successful


construct


vt. build or put together


validity


n.

truth or soundness; legal force, being legally binding
正确;
(法律上)有效



consistent


a.

in agreement; keeping to the same principles and habits


consistency

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