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Do you want a better life? According to the author of the following article, the solution is easy. Simply change the way you look at yourself --- and you will change the way you live. Improving your self-image is your key to living a better life.
你想生活变得更美好吗？据下面这篇文章的作者所述，解决这个问题的办法很简单。你只要改变看待自己的方式--你就会改变你生活的方式。改善你的自我意象便是过上更加美好生活的关键。
Your Key to a Better Life
生活更美好的关键
Maxwell Maltz
马克斯韦尔·马尔兹
The most important psychological of this century is the discovery of the "self-image." Whether we realize it or not, each of us carries about with us a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves. It may be vague and ill-defined to our conscious gaze. In fact, it may not be consciously recognizable at all. But it is there, complete down to the last detail. This self-image is our own conception of the "sort of person I am." It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciouslybeen formed our past experiences, our successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood. From all these we mentally construct a "self," (or a picture of a self). Once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this picture it becomes "true", as far as we personally are concerned. We do not question its validity, but proceed to act upon it just as if it were true.
本世纪最重要的心理学发现就是“自我意象”。不管我们意识到与否，我们每个人的脑子里都有一幅自我“蓝图”或自我画像。在我们有意识的凝视之下，它也许是模糊不清的；事实上，我们也许根本无法有意识地去认识它。但它确实是存在的，每一个细节都完整无缺。这一自我意象就是“我是怎样一种人”的自我概念。它建立在我们的自我信念之上。但是，这些自我信念大部分是根据我们过去的经历，我们的成功和失败、我们的羞辱、我们的胜利以及他人对我们的反应，特别是根据童年时期的种种经历在不知不觉中形成的。根据所有这些以往的经历，我们便在自己的脑子里形成了一个“自我”（或一幅自我画像）。就我们个人而言，一旦关于我们自己的某种想法或信念进入这幅画像，它就变成了“真实的”。我们从不怀疑它是否可信，而是根据它去行动，就好像它是真的一样。
