I found this book in one of the local bookstores in Singapore and bought it on July 15th, 1985. At that time I was still a student studying in Singapore Polytechnics. This book is still with me and I read it occasionally and I believe some of the topics did have influences on me as a person. I do believe that at my age now (59 years old) most of the topics covered in this book are still applicable.
Wish to take this opportunity to share with any one of you visiting my website wishing to improve your brain power so you will be able to face your life with better skill. Also to remind myself, how useful this book is, and continue to grow my life to manage it better.
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This book teaches you how to release those brakes that hinder your growth. When we have brake put on us, you will not be able to move swiftly and all things we do will be affected. To improve our performance, the author James W. Newman told us to have positive feelings about those things we want to do. With a Feel Good effect, our mind gets motivated and we will be able to perform at peak performance.
As mentioned by James, an average person uses only a fraction of his potential. There is tremendous potential lies within all of us. We need to find ways to get our potential out, and our life will never be the same. Stay with this book, and you will see the wonder.
Positive Emotions
The important message to us is Negative Emotions will stop us from achieving our potential. To be happy and to realize our dreams, we need to eliminate those negative thoughts from our minds. Negative emotions like fear of failure/rejection/pain/success are stopping us from getting what we want. We must fill our minds with positive emotions like joy, happiness, confidence, love, passion, and courage. All Positive Thinking will help us in our daily lives and we should make a habit let Positive thinking fill up our minds.
Main Braking Factor
Fear – There are many kinds of fears and all of these fears will affect our performance. Fear of pain, fear of failure, fear of rejection. Even fear of success is also one kind of fear we will encounter.
Solution
As suggested by James, one way to release this main braking factor is to use the Constructive Imagination technique. This technique will teach us how to use our imagination in a Positive way to create a Good Feeling in our mind so we have Positive Emotion towards the thing we going to do and handle.