Chapter 48Externalize YourseH. Don't Exist!
This is a psychological technique which may
eliminate self-consciousness, make you more popular than
you ever dreamed possible, make you a master of the
rewarding art of conversation, change your entire life for
the better (which is an understatement).
In all fairness, I also should tell you that ex-
ternalizing themselves may be difficult for most people
at first. Not impossible. Just difficult-because it requires
breaking a bad habit. And the resulting feeling is a little
strange. But it's fantastically exciting!What most of us do-and have done all our
lives-is internalize ourselves. Which simply means we
think about ourselves and we relate other people and
events to ourselves, our families, friends and possessions.
That's nothing of which we need be ashamed since it is
an intinct with which we were born. It is our inheritance
from prehistoric man who had to devote almost his full