A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment... For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will, ’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz
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The idea that the mind sets the goal of our activity, and not the other way around, is one of the most important discoveries of modern psychology. It is of tremendous value to every human being who wishes to be happy, healthy, and successful.

Source: The New Psychocybernetics: The Original Science Of Selfimprovement And Success That Has Changed The Lives Of 30 Million People

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