Cause 3 Flashcards
- The Cause of the Self-Image
The “self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior - Dr. Maxwell Maltz
If one’s self-image is nourished on past successes, it will be pleasant. - Maltz
Really good people only remember the successes and forget the failures.
What kind of person do you realistically think you are?
Is it because you truly believe it on your own terms or because it’s what other people have told you all your life?
What limitations do you have about yourself?
What if they’re based on some off-hand comment someone said to you a long time ago?
How do you know if your interpretations of the way someone treats you are true?
You don’t! It’s all dependent on your state. Improve your state and self-image and you will improve your interpretation of things. Self-reinforcing cycle
How could you change your self-image?
Get in your mind how you really want to be and act out as if you were that person. Test it out and see if it will make it true. The self-image is very malleable.
Because you see yourself as someone who is healthy
you always eat the healthy foods. When you go out to dinner, you get the healthiest thing on the menu. Because that’s who you see yourself as.
How you see yourself determines what you do
All our actions and emotions are consistent with our self-image
I’m chasing perfection - Kobe Bryant
I’m the kind of person that won’t stop until I have reached perfection.
Who you think you are
Isn’t necessarily who you are
But who you want to be
can happen simply by thinking it.
Character Modeling
Model and see yourself as someone you think has the qualities that you want.
How to install self-image
Default setting relationship, looping as part of your self-image, character modeling, zooming in and temporarily living on just one positive response (all a man needs to feed himself a lifetime of success is one positive response to build his castle on. Questions assuming image (if I loved myself truly and deeply, what would I do right now?) Repaint the pictures of yourself both past and future - selective memory.
