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• Instead of trying hard by conscious effort to do the thing by iron-jawed will power, and all the while worrying and picturing to yourself all the things that are likely to go wrong, you simply relax the strain, stop trying to “do it” by strain and effort, picture to yourself the target you really want to hit, and “let” your creative success mechani...
• Thoughts and feelings go together. Feelings are the soil that thoughts and ideas grow in. This is the reason that you have been advised throughout this book to imagine how you would feel if you succeeded—and then feel that way now.
• This reaction is so common that psychiatrists refer to it as the “success syndrome”—the man who feels guilty, insecure and anxious, when he realizes he has “succeeded.” This is the reason that “success” has become a bad word. Real success never hurt anyone. Striving for goals which are important to you, not as status symbols, but because they are c...
• To guard against future injury from that source they form a spiritual callus, an emotional scar to protect their ego. This scar tissue, however, not only “protects” them from the individual who originally hurt them—it “protects” them against all other human beings. An emotional wall is built through which neither friend nor foe can pass.
• and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.