Psycho-Cybernetics and Self-Fulfillment
Maxwell MaltzAt the same time, a revolution takes place in the vast inner space of our minds. For we find evidence that in making man, our Creator has endowed him with a servo-mechanism more wonderful than any electronic brain or guidance system that man has invented—and operating on the same basic principles.
Our Creator has given us all a built-in goal-striving device with which to achieve our goals. In the final analysis, this should enable us to rise above the mere physical survival aspect of living to a form of successful, satisfying living.
For animals life implies physical survival as well as the procreation of the species. Thus we find that birds in wintertime fly to warmer climates in self-protection—and their flights of thousands of miles they undertake without even getting hold of the TV weather reports. And a squirrel born in the spring will, without ever having experienced a winter, collect nuts for the winter for survival.
Animals, however, do not select their goals. Their goals of procreation and self-preservation are pre-set.
Human beings, on the other hand, have advanced beyond the animal stage. We possess a power of creative imagination which makes us more than creatures—creators. And, because of this productive imaginative power our goals are limitless.
Within your midbrain is a very small electronic computer, a tape recorder, an automatic servo-mechanism, a success mechanism that you operate like an electronic computer, a goal-striving mechanism that will help you move toward your goals.