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The Magic Of Thinking Big

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

Additional books by David J Schwartz: Schwartz wrote two more books on the psychology of success: The Magic of Getting What You Want (1983) and The Magic of Thinking Success (1987). These works give more pointers and stories on how the positive-visualization method leads to greater achievement.

(Note: There is another author named David J Schwartz, who writes science-fiction books.)

Book: Psycho-Cybernetics (1960) by Maxwell Maltz, MD. The author, a plastic surgeon, noticed that his work caused many patients to think better of themselves. He realized that what matters in success is a person’s “self-image,” a term he popularized. The book takes a somewhat scientific approach, asserting that the subconscious mind is a cybernetic, or goal-seeking, system—whatever directive, positive or negative, the conscious mind gives it, the subconscious will work to achieve, automatically correcting its path based on feedback from the real world. Maltz counsels a realistic assessment of one’s possibilities—this anticipates later developments in cognitive therapy—and a deliberate program of visualizing positive ends. Published a year after David Schwartz’s work, its publisher claims 30 million people have read it.

Book: Become An Idea Machine: Because Ideas Are The Currency Of The 21st Century (2015) by Claudia Azula Altucher. The book teaches the Ten Ideas technique, by which users can come up with several useful solutions to any problem they can name.

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