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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

389 | Dr. Maxwell Maltz: “Don’t Hate Yourself Because You Aren’t Perfect. You Have Lots of Company. No One Else Is Either.“

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Maxwell Maltz makes his show debut to talk about our self-image and self-esteem, and how we can all expand who we are and what we accomplish by using our imagination and our emotions, and by showing ourselves more kindness, compassion, and acceptance. 

Today’s clip comes from Dr. Maltz’s audio program The New Psycho-Cybernetics available at nightingale.com and audible.com. 

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0:00.0

Don't hate yourself because you aren't perfect. You have lots of company. No one else is either.

0:05.7

And that is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

0:37.8

dot com. We are taking it way back today to the 1960s with Dr. Maxwell. Maltz, who was the

0:43.4

author of one of the most classic personal development books ever written. It's called Psycho

0:48.2

Cybernetics. I highly recommend that you read it. And what you will learn from Dr. Maltz's

0:53.2

book is that we all have a self image. We all have a way in which we see ourselves. Like

1:01.4

Marissa talked about yesterday, many of us see ourselves as not being enough. And our

1:07.6

self image, it contains what we feel like we're capable of and what we're not capable of.

1:12.9

What we feel like we can handle what we feel like we can't handle what we feel deserving

1:17.0

and worthy of and not deserving and worthy of. And here's the thing.

1:21.8

We will all be very hard pressed to achieve a goal that exceeds our self image. And what

1:28.3

you will learn in Dr. Maltz's book, Psycho Cybernetics is that you can expand your self

1:34.1

image by using your imagination as well as your emotions. It's pretty fascinating stuff.

1:39.8

So again, I highly recommend that you read his book. Here's Dr. Maltz.

1:44.8

Let's go over the components of success by studying an example from our medical practice.

1:50.3

I removed the tumor from the eyelid of a little girl, a tumor that was threatening her vision.

1:55.9

The operation took place on a far off island in the A-sauce. Visualize the scene when I

2:00.8

removed the bandages a week after surgery. The child can see as she opens and closes

2:06.4

her eye. Both eyelids look the same. The child is happy as she looks in the mirror. The

2:13.0

parents weep with joy. The operation was a success. But let us examine this operation as

2:21.8

it applies to the success mechanism within us. When I proceeded to operate, I had a sense

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