Chapter 2 of Psycho-Cybernetics goes further in-depth to explain how you can discover your very own "Success Mechanism".
All living creatures have built-in a guidance system or goal striving device. For animals, their goals are preset for survival and replication. We call this "instinct". Animals have their goals preset. Humans on the other hand have what is called the CREATIVE IMAGINATION which allows us to change our goals. Our Success Mechanism can be directed by the use of the human imagination.
When applying the science of cybernetics to human beings, the brain and nervous system together form a servo-mechanism that operates as a goal striving device. There are two general types of servo-mechanisms:
The first type of servo-mechanism is where the target, goal or answer is known and the objective is to reach it. An example of this type of servo-mechanism is a self-guided torpedo that is aimed directly at a particular target. The target is aimed at and then the success mechanism takes over till it hits the target. Before it hits the target, the torpedo will make mistakes auto-corrects its course to get in closer approximation towards the target. Essentially the torpedo "zig-zigs" its way into the target.
The second type of servo-mechanism is where the answer is not known and the objective is to discover or locate it. An example of this type of servo-mechanism is locating a package of cigarettes in a room too dark to see. Trying to recall a forgotten name is another example.
Dr. Maltz believes in a "universal mind" in which he says all humans can tap into.
Here's an interesting quote from Dr. Norbet Wiener:
"Once a scientist attacks a problem which he knows to have an answer, his entire attitude is changed. He is already fifty per cent of his way toward that answer."
Whenever human beings do creative work they always begin with a "target answer" or goal in mind which will be "recognized" when it is achieved. When it comes to problem sovling the Creative Imagination scans through stored information and past experiences and then uses them as a guide to help solve the problem. It is also quite common that the answer comes to the conscious mind when least expected, even in the form of dreams when we are asleep. The creative mechanism, according to Maltz has access to stord information in the universal mind.
PRACTICE EXERCISE NO. 1
The exercise here is to re-read this chapter three times per week for 3 weeks and become famliar with your success-mechanism and how it operates.
All living creatures have built-in a guidance system or goal striving device. For animals, their goals are preset for survival and replication. We call this "instinct". Animals have their goals preset. Humans on the other hand have what is called the CREATIVE IMAGINATION which allows us to change our goals. Our Success Mechanism can be directed by the use of the human imagination.
When applying the science of cybernetics to human beings, the brain and nervous system together form a servo-mechanism that operates as a goal striving device. There are two general types of servo-mechanisms:
The first type of servo-mechanism is where the target, goal or answer is known and the objective is to reach it. An example of this type of servo-mechanism is a self-guided torpedo that is aimed directly at a particular target. The target is aimed at and then the success mechanism takes over till it hits the target. Before it hits the target, the torpedo will make mistakes auto-corrects its course to get in closer approximation towards the target. Essentially the torpedo "zig-zigs" its way into the target.
The second type of servo-mechanism is where the answer is not known and the objective is to discover or locate it. An example of this type of servo-mechanism is locating a package of cigarettes in a room too dark to see. Trying to recall a forgotten name is another example.
Dr. Maltz believes in a "universal mind" in which he says all humans can tap into.
Here's an interesting quote from Dr. Norbet Wiener:
"Once a scientist attacks a problem which he knows to have an answer, his entire attitude is changed. He is already fifty per cent of his way toward that answer."
Whenever human beings do creative work they always begin with a "target answer" or goal in mind which will be "recognized" when it is achieved. When it comes to problem sovling the Creative Imagination scans through stored information and past experiences and then uses them as a guide to help solve the problem. It is also quite common that the answer comes to the conscious mind when least expected, even in the form of dreams when we are asleep. The creative mechanism, according to Maltz has access to stord information in the universal mind.
PRACTICE EXERCISE NO. 1
The exercise here is to re-read this chapter three times per week for 3 weeks and become famliar with your success-mechanism and how it operates.
2 comments:
Can I continue reading the book while reading the chapter 2 for 21 days?
The latest version of the (mine purchased) has 3 different exercises in chapter 2.
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