You are wrapped up in your own self and hence handicapped. Progress halted. Any new knowledge comes from outside the self – not from “expert” but from an “inpert.”
Pasteur was not an M.D. the Wright brothers were not aeronautical engineers but bicycle mechanics. Einstein was a mathematician not an physicist. Madam Curie was not a M.D. but a physicist, yet she made vital contributions to medical science.
Maxwell Maltz says that self-image is the key to human personality and behaviour. Change the self-image and you transform the human beings. Self-image sets the bounds of personal achievement. It decides what you can and cannot do. Expand the self-image and you expand the area of the possible.
There is evidence in psychology psychosomatics and industrial psychology that there are happy phone personalities and unhappy personalities just as there are healthy and disease-prone personalities. It throws light on positive as well as negative thinking. And why does it work with some, not others? It works when it is in tune, not when in conflict with self-image.
It is a goal-striving mechanism which works for you as a success mechanism or against you as a failure mechanism depending on how “you” operate it.
Self-image is changed not by intellect alone but by experiencing. “Teaching” a man or a woman how to love, does not help but making him or her “experience” love does.
We learn to function successfully by experiencing success. Memories of success are stored information which serve as a storehouse of confidence.
This story is from the April 2020 edition of Woman's Era.
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