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The trick is to keep this motivation going. To delib-
erately feed your spirit with the optimistic ideas you
want to live by. Any time a thought, sentence, or para-
graph inspires you or opens up your thinking, you need
to capture it, like a butterfly in a net, and later release
it into your own field of consciousness.
For me, discovering an exciting idea in a book or
magazine is like a true peak experience. It makes the
world bright and incomprehensible. I get that tingle in
my spine. I get that “Oh, yes!” feeling. Why am I this
lucky? And the more I deliberately fill my mind with
the words and phrases that originally stirred the peak
experience, the easier it is to remember that life is good.
“This,” writes Colin Wilson inNew Pathways in Psy-
chology, “is why people who have a peak experience can
go on repeating them: because it is simply a matter of
reminding yourself of something you have already seen
and which you know to be real. In this sense, it is like
any other ‘recognition’ that suddenly dawns on you—
for example, the recognition of the greatness of some
composer or artist whom you had formerly found diffi-
cult or incomprehensible, or the recognition of how to
solve a certain problem. Once such a recognition ‘dawns’
it is easy to reestablish contact with it, because it is
there like some possession, waiting for you to return to
it.”
During my talks on self-motivation, one of the ques-
tions I’m asked most often is “How do I keep this go-
ing?” People say, “I love what I’ve learned today, but
I’ve often gone to seminars that got me motivated and
then a few days later I was back to my old pessimistic
self, doing exactly what I used to do.”
If I were in the mood to be blunt, I would answer the
question this way: Why, if you love what you’ve learned