Psycho-Cybernetics

Updated and Expanded

By: Maxwell Maltz

Narrated by: Matt Furey

Cybernetics (loosely translated from the Greek): "a helmsman who steers his ship to port". Psycho-cybernetics is a term coined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz that means "steering your mind to a productive, useful goal so you can reach the greatest port in the world: peace of mind".

Since its first publication in 1960, Maltz's landmark best seller has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers. In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original text has been annotated and amplified to make Maltz's message even more relevant for the contemporary audience.

"Before the mind can work efficiently, we must develop our perception of the outcomes we expect to reach. Maxwell Maltz calls this Psycho-Cybernetics; when the mind has a defined target it can focus and direct and refocus and redirect until it reaches its intended goal." (Tony Robbins, from Unlimited Power)

Maltz was the first researcher and author to explain how the self-image (a term he popularized) has complete control over an individual's ability to achieve (or failure to achieve) any goal. And he developed techniques for improving and managing self-image - visualization, mental rehearsal, relaxation - that have informed and inspired countless motivational gurus, sports psychologists, and self-help practitioners for more than 50 years.

The teachings of psycho-cybernetics are timeless because they are based on solid science and provide a prescription for thinking and acting that lead to quantifiable results.

©2015 Maxwell Maltz (P)2017 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Psycho-Cybernetics is a classic personal development book. Most of the current speakers in the area of personal development, including Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy and others owe a debt to Maxwell Maltz for the foundation of their material. The psychological training of Olympic athletes is also based on the concepts in Psycho-Cybernetics. Thousands, possibly millions, of people have benefited by putting these ideas to work. Put Psycho-Cybernetics on your 'must-read' list." (Michael C. Gray, Profit Advisors)

"Published in 1960, Psycho-Cybernetics remains one the classics of self-help, self-improvement, and personal development." (Mind of Success)

"An invaluable aid to the layman, offering a sound, scientific method of practical self-improvement." (Mark Freeman, PhD, clinical psychologist)

Become the person you dreamed of!

You will never out performed the image of yourself that you hold. If you want to become better picture a better image. This book will help you discover how to do that .

Life in it's truest form.

Since the first 3 chapters, this book changed the way I saw the world and the way I correlated it to my life; it changed my life, it changed me. It's something that can hardly be fully described with words, but I was able to find a side of me and of my life that I never even thought it existed; I found myself. It's as if someone came and told me, "this has been your life, this has been you, but, breaking news, it doesn't have to be that way."
This is a book that you read or listen, but which you LIVE and EXPERIENCE.
Having Matt Furey narrate it himself adds strong emotion and a profound, personal connection to the material that will reosund with any human being willing to learn how to live and function the way we're supposed to.

Amazing audiobook

Psycho-Cybernetics really opened my mind to deeper thinking and gives me the impetus to explore and expand rather than retreat and contract, and I’m loving it.

Great book terrible narrator.

If you listen to this book while driving he might put you to sleep. So robotic and speaks so slow. I had to fast forward his talking speed to stay awake. Overall this is a great book might have to actually read it though.

Wealth of knowledge

Wow, this book is a wealth of knowledge. Timeless, just as relevant today as when it was written.

Fantastic info, terrible narrator

The narrator makes it hard to listen to and focus on. His addition of personal anecdotes are unnecessary and boring.

Just wow

Of all the improvement books I have ever read over the years I don’t know how I didn’t start with this one. If there is any book I would recommend to really take over the machine that is you brain, it would be this one. This is the training manual to control your life and mind that should be given in school.

The book I wish I had read 20 years ago

if you're looking at this book, stop looking and get it.
I had heard about it 20 years ago.
don't make the same mistake. Your best life depends on it

A powerhouse for personal freedom.

a book I listen to every few months, ots cumulative effects apon my psychology are profound, such that the average human fears even the smallest display of my vast inner power

This Book Changed My Life.

You will get something out of this book. No matter who you are.

When it was over, I had to resist starting it from the beginning.