Maxwell Maltz On Why It's Best To "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" & How I Took Him At His Word!
I must admit that I have been a bit of a "sleeping dog" today... I was slow to get up this morning - nothing to do with the six beers that went down the hatch, and the late night viewing of Peaky Blinders on Netflix, you understand - and I skipped my usual morning mini-work out (Daily Habit #1).
A Sluggish Morning Studying Italian and Chess
Feeling sluggish, I decided to start the morning (well, by now most of it was over) with my daily language study habit. "Study" is not really the word, and I prefer not to use it. Instead, I simply "copy" or transcribe the study material into my notebook.
Today was "Italian day" and so it was the easiest day for me because Italian is still the foreign language that I've achieved the highest proficiency in - maybe not as a speaker, but in reading and listening skills. So I filled three pages of my notebook with Italian in about forty minutes.
Then I got on with my chess studies, reviewing yesterday's five variations in the English Defence and pushing on to the Bogo-Indian to get today's variations done before stopping for lunch...
And it was the late lunch that tipped me into the "sleeping dog" mode that I alluded to earlier...
Dwelling in the Land of Nod
I think my "afternoon nap" extended into the early evening!
Well, I was not completely asleep the whole time...
Like a sleeping guard dog, I had one eye open and on the price of Bitcoin and my leveraged futures trade on Stormgain which took a big hit yesterday when the price of Bitcoin suddenly collapsed. My $10 x 5 leveraged punt dropped to something like -$9 but did not hit the liquidation price and has since recovered to -$6.74 or so. The game is still on!
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I also sent out three safelist emails from my recumbent position on my bed and appear to have got myself two new subscribers. The sleeping-dog marketing method is a winner!
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Back Into The Land of the Living
Around 6pm I managed to haul myself out of the Land of Nod and back into the Land of the Living, and belatedly did my daily mini-workout, though I felt too lazy to do any heavy lifting...
So here we are in the late evening struggling to get this post written so that I can say that I have completed my five daily habits and the #ctpcontent challenge for today.
And that brings me to what was supposed to be the theme of today's blog post...
Why Maxwell Maltz Wrote That We Should Not Awaken The "Sleeping Dogs" Of Our Past
In the Fifth Chapter of Psycho -Cybernetics, in a section subtitled "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie," Maxwell Maltz returns to his metaphor of the "servo-mechanism" and points out that,
"all servo-mechanisms, by their very nature, contain 'memories' of past errors, failures, painful and negative experiences. These negative experiences do not inhibit, but contribute to the learning process, as long as they are used properly as 'negative feedback data,' and are seen as deviations from the positive goal which is desired.
"However, as soon as the error has been recognized as such and correction of course made, it is equally important that the error be consciously forgotten, and the successful attempt remembered and 'dwelt upon'. [Psycho-Cybernetics, pp 60-61]
So, you see, although it was perhaps an error on my part to sleep through the best part of the afternoon, sleeping dogs ought to be left alone until they wake up and get back on track, as I am attempting to do now by writing this. And that is no lie!
Cheers for now!
David Hurley
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