Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Habits, on the other hand, are merely reactions and responses that we have learned to perform automatically without having to think or decide. They are performed by our Creative Mechanism.

PRACTICE EXERCISE

New Roles Require New Self-Images

Self-Confidence

Creative Mechanism has an ideal opportunity to work independently of conscious interference, if you have previously started the wheels turning.

gives us the lever that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

3. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, or of temporary failures. All servo-mechanisms achieve a goal by negative feedback, or by going forward, making mistakes, and immediately correcting course. 4. Skill learning of any kind is accomplished by trial and error, mentally correcting aim after an error, until a “successful” motion, movement, or performa

matter either. All that matters is that the memory triggers a positive, happy, feel-good experience in you right now. Replay and relive the positive memory, then go into the future and picture how you want to be with the same feeling you felt in the past. Add emotion to what you’re seeing in your mind’s eye. If you find your mind wandering, don’t g

to smooth out human relations and bring about better understanding between people. Ask yourself, “How does this appear—to him?” “How does he interpret this situation?” “How does he feel about it?” Try to understand why he might “act the way he does.”