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“It has been my observation that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be” - Abraham Lincoln 

Make someone happy. Share happiness. 

  Be sensitive to your own reactions and the reactions of others. For example if you like to be complimented - you can safely assume others will be happy if you do the same. 

Never abandon hope. Repel accidents and tragedies by being alert. However, should tragedy strike, PMA can guide you in meeting reverses calmly and deliberately. 

Always have something to live for. 

How to raise your energy level

“If you believe you can do it, most of the time you can. It’s mind over matter” 

“The art of record-breaking is the ability to take more out of yourself than you’ve got.” 

Break the big goals into small goals. 

Develop your Magnificent Obsession 

Share that which is good and desirable. Withhold that which is bad and undesirable. 

Every occasion is a good occasion! There is something infinitely better than making a living: It is making a noble life. 

How to find satisfaction in your job.

Do what comes naturally, that you have an aptitude for. If you don’t, you may experience mental and emotional conflicts. However, these can be neutralised and overcome, if you are positive and if you’re motivated to gain experience to become proficient in the job.

You can control your mental attitude by use of self-motivators. “I feel happy, I feel healthy, I feel terrific!"

Set a goal

Know the rules and understand how to apply them

Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. 

Other people’s money is the way to acquire wealth. The banker is your friend. There’s is nothing to lose by trying, and a great deal to gain if you’re successful, so try by own means. Be certain to calculate how you ca and will pay the individual or institution that loaned you the money. 

  When you want to make a deal with someone, develop a plan that will give him what he wants and in doing so get what you want. 

Motivation induces action or determines choice. Motivation provides a motive, an inner urge within an individual to incite him to action, such as an instinct, passion, emotion, habit, mood, impulse, desire or idea. It is hope that starts an action to attempt to produce specific results. 

Hope is a desire with expectation of obtaining what is desired and belief that it is obtainable. The person subconsciously reacts to inner urge that induces action when self-suggestion, autosuggestion or external suggestion releases powers of the subconscious mind. 

10 basic motives:

1. Self-preservation

2. Love

3. Fear

4. Sex

5. Life after death

6. Freedom of body and mind

7. Anger

8. Hate

9. Recognition and self-expression

10. Material gain

Emotions are controlled through combination of reason and action. When fears are unwarranted or harmful, they should be neutralised. 

If you are afraid, use self-suggestion to command yourself “Be courageous”, and act courageously. 

The secret of getting things done is to DO IT NOW! Make sure it is an autosuggestion. 

Five Mental Bombshells for Attacking Success:

1. You’ve got a problem? That’s good! 

Because each victory over problems will help you to grow in wisdom and experience. You become more successful each time you meet a problem and tackle it positively. 

Engage in thinking time for the purpose of solving your problems. Every adversity has the seed of equal or greater benefit as long you have a Positive Mental Attitude. State the problem, analyze and define it. Ask yourself some questions, such as whats good about the problem and how you can turn the adversity into greater benefit. 

Chapter 4: Will you dare to explore the powers of your mind?

Conscious Autosuggestion: The mind of the patient subconsciously made the suggestion to which his own mind and body reacted. Without this conscious autosuggestions, external suggestions are not effective. 

The 17 Success Principles

1. A Positive Mental Attitude 2. Definiteness of purpose 3. Going the extra mile 4. Accurate thinking 5. Self-discipline 6. The master mind 7. Applied faith 8. A pleasing personality 9. Personal initiative 10. Enthusiasm 11. Controlled attention 12. Teamwork 13. Learning from defeat 14. Creative vision 15. Budgeting time and money 16. Maintaining sound physical and mental health 17. Using cosmic habit force (universal law) 

If you are unhappy with your world and want to change it, the place to start is with yourself. If you are right, your world will be right. This is what PMA is all about. When you have a Positive Mental Attitude, the problems of your world tend to bow before you

Identify yourself with a successful image or symbol that will inspire you to make the right decisions. Face danger in spite of fear. What will your picture say to you when you face a serious problem or decision? 

Be definitive about your purpose. What is my goal? What do I really want? What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. Your subconscious mind will work to help you get to your intended destination. When you know what you want, you get into action. You are motivated and enthusiastic about your goals and burning desires. You can easily recognise opportunities that will help you achieve your objectives. 

Clear your thinking. Read logic books such as: The Art of Clear Thinking, by Rudolf Flesch; Your Most Enchanted Listener, by Wendell Johnson; Introduction to Logic, by Irving Copi; and The Art of Straight Thinking, by Edwin Leavitt Clarke

Details about author's anxiety coupled with a major depressive episode, with some memorable quotes on staying sane like acceptance, awareness and what not.

- Advertising creates anxiety to be relieved by the act of buying - Beware of the gap of where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. - Just when you feel you have no time to relax, just know that is the moment you most need to make time to relax. - Nothing lasts forever. This pain won't last. Pain is a debt paid off with time. - Understand that you are not your thoughts. Understand that there is a bigger part of you that isn't sinking.

- Things aren’t going to get worst. It is as low as you can get. There is only upwards from here.

- Nothing lasts forever. This pain won’t last. Ignore it. Pain is a debt paid off with time.

- “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile” You will one day experience joy that matches this pain. 

Game Theory: The Minds of Others

Having to predict other’s actions, which will be based on predicting your actions, and recursively go on and on

Nash equilibrium: a state where strategies chosen by players are optimal when considering the strategies that may be selected by the other players 

Randomness: When to leave it to chance? 

Polynomial Identity Test: Our effort may be better spent on checking random values. 

Bloom Filter: probabilistic data structure (hash). Able to identify items not seen before. Use case: Medium excludes posts that a user has already read from its recommendations. 

Hill Climbing Algorithm: Goal is to reach highest peak in a given set of data. 

Random-Restart Hill Climbing: Scramble solution when a local maximum is reached.