Success Shortcuts of Masters & Champions
The Final Ruby - Ruby's Rubies of Success
It's claimed that I am the most well-read person, at least of my age group, in all of history,
averaging one or more books per day for more than 11,000 days.
Perhaps 75 of those books have been read up to 9 or 10 times each. If only allowed to offer two authors to the world, I suppose they'd be James Herriot and Dr Maxwell Maltz.
James Alfred Wight Sunderland, better known as Dr. Herriot, who strikes most readers as the world's greatest and funniest country veterinarian and wonderful human being, manages to deliver joy to the reader in living fully and richly on a day to day basis. Many positive lessons come from his books although his apparent goal was merely to entertain. What can be better for humans than edutainment? Although James Herriot may not have intended it, he shows us some of the most powerfully effective techniques for living fully and happily, not only in his professions, more importantly in his family life.
On the other hand, Dr. Maltz's most famous book teaches us how to turn virtually any thought or desire into reality in 100 days or less, using the greatest shortcuts of those who do things best amongst us all, applying to any dream you might have. The book spawned at least 4,000 other books, and countless world records.
Dr. Maltz's book teaches it so well, just as Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" (more than 4,000 millionaires have publicly or privately stated very clearly that "Think and Grow Rich" was the most significant of catalysts in their becoming millionaires).
In fact, Dr Maltz, America's first 'premiere' plastic surgeon, turned away more candidates for vanity surgery than he accepted. With his simple book (fancy title of "PsychoCybernetics"), he so thoroughly teaches the most powerful of Life's master shortcuts that just this one book singledhandedly planted a seed that has grown into thousands of mostly useful books, tapes, videos, careers, even an industry.
The whole lot of them bring great messages: Harvey Mackay, Shakespeare, Napoleon Hill, Socrates, Lincoln, Sun Tzu, Epictetus…they're all great, they're all wise. From Goethe to Voltaire, Anthony Robbins to Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, Brian Tracy, Dyer, Denis Waitley (a giant unto himself),
Schuler, Peale, and literally every big name in peak performance… I have all their books, and tapes, some rather well-worn from repetition. They're all great, they're all wise, and wealthy, etc.
Basically, they all say the same few things.
- Flexible repetition is the basis of every human skill
- All great wisdom, all great wishes, and all great achievements, are brief, & can be "seen" on our mental video with emotion... and in writing.
- No matter what you point your finger at, it is made up of smaller components, which were assembled just one at a time, most often by taking it apart and working backwards.
99% of you are convinced that you understand
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