One of the most inspirational and pivotal quotes which I have had ever encountered when I first read Dr Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics classic back in the late 70's is this valuable piece:
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all.
You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny.
You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.”
I like to single out one line from Dr Maltz's quote:
"... You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality... "
It spurred me to enhance my opportunity-sensitive mindset, as part of my life-long and life-wide quest in building and enhancing personal mastery throughout the ensuring years.
I became a fast and voracious reader.
When I left the corporate world in the early nineties to pursue my bliss, one of my three small entrepreneurial ventures was the setting up of a small, but unique retail store, aptly called The Brain Resource in the Central Business District of Singapore.
It retailed books, audios, videos, thinkertoys, construction kits, posters and other resources only on the brain and learning, creativity, innovation, peak performance (including intelligence amplification) and longevity.
It was the one and only kind of store in Singapore.
My primary rationale for setting up the store was to use it as a side-gig to bankroll and fuel my voracious reading habit.
By the way, I even took up PhotoReading under the tutelage of Patricia Danielson from New England, USA, during the early nineties. She was the co-developer of the innovative reading methodolgy with Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies Corporation.
To cut my story short, one of the great books I have had owned and read around that time was You2: A High-Velocity Formula for Multiplying your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps, by strategy consultant Dr Price Pritchett.
If readers haven't yet read it, I strongly recommend you to do so. It has only 30 odd pages but it will be worth your while.
Here's a nice quote from the author:
"Most people operate with a mindset that assumes success comes one step at a time. The unspoken but popular notion is that we must move systematically from our present level of achievement to the next.
Then, the thinking goes from that stage we can begin working toward graduating to still the next higher level in the sequence. Gradual progress.
You2 (You Squared) implies an 'explosive jump' in your personal performance that puts you far beyond the next logical step."
By the way, I even bought the entire collection of books written by the author.
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