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George Weinberg

PRACTICAL WAYS
TO A POWERFUL
PERSONALITY

Author

Dr. Weinberg, a practicing


psychotherapist, shows how, by a
judicious choice of actions, we can rid
our personalities of fear, anxiety and
shame. He illustrates his ideas with
numerous examples and suggests
practical ways to develop a powerful
personality.

Chapter 1: our most important cues


Chapter 2: some ways to know you feelings
Chapter 3: the necessary starting place for selfhelp
Chapter 4: the action approach
Chapter 5: the interaction and the vantage- point
effect
Chapter 6: direct effect
Chapter 7: the process of change
Chapter 8: a story of past
Chapter 9: trauma and what we can do about it
Chapter 10: paranoia
Chapter 11: the fourth effect---recognition

Chapter 12: some comparisons of the effect


Chapter 13: fear and anxiety
Chapter 14: backward inference
Chapter 15: habits and compulsions
Chapter 16: love without obstacles
Chapter 17: inconsistency: real or imagined?
Chapter 18: rehearsal
Chapter 19: how to make a complaint
Chapter 20: personal values and personality
Chapter 21: mental health and personal goals
Chapter 22: summary and some conclusions

Chapter # 1

: The Most Important

Cues

Some important cues to identify your


personality
Feeling
Behavior
Different activities
values

: Some ways to know


your Feelings
Chapter # 2

Try to accept fact


Try to identify physical and verbal signs of how you
feel
Understand that if you have a feeling you dont
have to act on it
Dont set your sights on becoming a person whos
never afraid
Be especially careful, not misrepresent your attitude
Discuss your feeling only with people you trust
Dont pretend to be broad- minded
Interpret your own surprise and disappointment

:The Necessary Starting


Place for Self-Help
Chapter # 3

Actions seem to follow feelings, but real


actions and feeling go together, and by
regulating the action, which is under more
direct control of the will, we can indirectly
regulate the feelings, which is not.
We must not hold our self accountable for
our emotions
Hold yourself accountable for all your
decisions

Chapter # 4

: The Action Approach

Our personal orientation is relatively


stable by the time, the long-standing
beliefs ( emotional meaning)
There is no sufficient power to rearrange
our own character structure
(psychoanalysis)
Our actions affect our character structure
By following actions we can produce
lasting change

: The Interaction and The


Vantage-Point Effects
Chapter # 5

Interaction effect
Process of learning (people response) and

developing techniques

Vantage point effect


Interpret people behavior

Some power to influence our attitudes


and our perceptions

Chapter # 6

: Direct Effect

We have direct effect when we act


Feelings lead us to act
Our actions affect our subsequent
attitudes

Chapter # 7

: The Process of Change

Identify unwanted attitude


Order all attitude
Suggest activities
Patterns of activities can produce
personality change

Chapter # 8

: A Story from the Past

Our past effect us in different ways


Learning
Actions
Responsiveness
character structure

: Trauma and What we


can do about it
Chapter # 9

Trauma:
An event, or set of events, that causes a person

to shift a behavior pattern, bringing some


attitude into prominence
A lasting psychological effect( shock)

Involving in different activities


Changing behavior patterns
Make the person to feel member of a
large family

Chapter # 10

: Paranoia

Paranoia is the fear of being abused


The pre-paranoid situations
A strong emotional investment
Feel frightened of being deprived

: The Forth Effect---Recognition


Chapter # 11

It is the fourth principle


Recognition:
To judge/identify people through their

behavior

:Some Comparisons of
the Effects
Chapter # 12

Interaction
learn

Vantage point
Interpret

Direct effect
Act

Recognition
Judge

Chapter # 13

: Fear and

Anxiety

Very important emotions


Both involve same internal changes
Both are unpleasant/discomfort
In fear we can identify what we are
thinking but in anxiety we cant
Fear can suggest some course of action
but anxiety cant

Chapter # 14

: Backward Inference

A technique that identify motivation


previously not recognized
Discover the truth/ real motive
The appearance of new motive can
cause any habitual behaviour

: Habits and
Compulsions
Chapter # 15

Habit:
A practice which we feel an inner urge/ impulse
Resist impulse by replacing activities

Compulsion:
Motive force derives from need
Not newly adopted
Can not change easily(resist)

Ways to attack behavior


Fight against impulse
Identify problem
By resisting

Chapter # 16

: Love without Obstacles

A person love himself, can love other


people
Serve and love humanity
Love for your family
Your love for family will give them peace,
courage and hope

: Inconsistency : Real or
Imagined
Chapter # 17

Freuds concept of libido


Libido:
A quantity of psychic force in different

amount
Not measureable

A person can have inconsistency in his


activities
These activities can base on reality or
imagination

Chapter # 18

: Rehearsal

In rehearsal there can be immense


advantage
We can express ourselves precisely and
to the point
Negative rehearsal:
Offend that person
Actions
Make ourselves undesirable

: How to make a
Complaint
Chapter # 19

Making complain
Complain the person harming you
Do not object behavior in front of anyone else
Dont compare behavior with other person
Make complain as soon as possible
Dont repeat a point again
Object the actions other can change
Try to make only one complain at one time
Avoid words like always and never

: Personal Values and


Personality
Chapter # 20

Every one has a code of personal


ethics(attitude)
We can not live without some ethical
system
We follow for the sake of stability
Value system determines the people
who become important to us
Ethical behavior can produce effects on
our psychs

: Mental Health and


Personal Goals
Chapter # 21

There will be some goals which we would


consider desirable
We are the final judge of our own behavior
Mental health is valuable ( stability)
Stable our character structure
We can roughly renew same set of attitude
There is no official rule, explicit what is
healthy for you

: Summary and Some


Conclusions
Chapter # 22

Understand the significance of the childhood


The changing of thoughts and attitudes
The source of personality change is new in
psychology
We can replace some undesirable attitudes
Each of us ultimate power to shape the
psyche
We have the power in our actions to turn
ourselves into the people we want to be

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