MAXWELL MALTZ
(Expert # 101)Maxw
ell Maltz Quick Facts
Areas: Psy
ain cho-Cybernetics; Self-Image; Motivation
est-Seller: “Psycho-Cybernetics” (over 30 million copies sold)
Profile: Author; Speaker; Counselor; Researcher; Surgeon; 1899-
1975
The Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, Inc.
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ell Maltz BiographyMaxwell Maltz, M.D. created the Self Improvement phenomenon Psycho-
Cybernetics. For many years, he had a practice as a reconstructive and cosmetic
facial surgeon, but he moved from treating “outer scars” to “inner scars” after
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c d that although their appearance changed, they did not feel any different.
D altz tried to find out why this was happening. He discovered that your “out
li as a reflection of how you saw yourself on the inside, what he called “sel
g .” Dr. Maltz noted that you can never rise higher than your self-image. If
inner self” is not equal to your “outer self,” then you will always revert back
re you think you belong.
a decade of counseling patients, extensive research, and testing his evolving
ss conditioning techniques,” Dr. Maltz published his findings in 1960. The
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in and motivational speakers throughout the 1960s and the early 1970s. Dr.
lt wrote over a dozen books, applying Psycho-Cybernetics to different
David Riklan’s favorite Maxwell Maltz Quotes and Thoughts
- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has
better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to
take a calculated risk—and to act. - Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You
will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.