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Waitley, Psychology of Success, 8e

Chapter 1: Psychology and Success

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 Learning Objectives
• Define success.
• List several personal qualities that help people
to be happy.
• Define psychology and cite its four major goals.
• Explain the relationship between thoughts,
feelings, and actions.
• Define self, self-image, and identity.
• Describe the components of identity.

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 Who is a Success?
• Those who take the potential they were born with and
develop/use that potential toward a purpose that makes
them feel worthwhile.
• In society, it is not always obvious who are truly
successful people.
• Role Model - Person who has qualities you would like to
have.
Success Secrets
• Always make time for relationships.
• Adults need role models, too.
Activity 2: Your Role Model

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 Ingredients of Success 1

1. Self-Awareness
Identifying and appreciating your individual values,
qualities, skills and interests.
2. Self-Direction
Ability to set a goal and work toward it.
3. Self-Esteem
Respecting oneself as a valuable, unique individual.
4. Positive Thinking
Focusing on future possibilities to propel yourself
toward your goals.

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 Ingredients of Success 2

5. Self-Discipline
Daily personal effort putting your plans into
action.
6. Self-Motivation
Getting and staying motivated by setting
challenging and inspiring goals; moving
forward despite fears.
7. Positive Relationships
Healthy relationships with friends, family, and
co-worker.
Personal Journal 1.1 Ingredients of Success
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 Who is Success?
• Those who take the potential they were born with and
develop/use that potential toward a purpose that makes
them feel worthwhile.
• In society, it is not always obvious who are truly
successful people.
• Role Model.
Person who has qualities you would like to have.
Success Secrets
• Always make time for relationships.
• Adults need role models, too.
Activity 2: Your Role Model

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 Success and Happiness
Happiness.
• A state of well-being that comes from having a
positive evaluation of your life.
Outside factors—wealth, youth, physical
attractiveness, etc., have little effect on
happiness.
Success Secret.
• Create your own opportunities for happiness.
Activity 3: Self-Awareness Checklist

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 Positive Qualities
• Another way to boost your happiness is to develop
personal qualities that will help you enjoy life and cope
with challenges.
• Psychologists have identified the following qualities:
ability to love, vocation, courage, trust, optimism, future-
mindedness, social skills, aesthetic sensibility, work
ethic, honesty, emotional awareness, persistence,
forgiveness, creative thinking, spirituality, self-esteem,
and wisdom.
Success Secret
• Try new ways of thinking and doing.

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 Understanding Psychology
Psychology.
• Scientific study of human behavior.
Behavior.
• Anything that you think, feel or do.
Goals of Psychology.
• Describe, predict, explain, and (in some cases)
change human behavior.
Success Secret
• Studying psychology helps you understand
yourself and others.

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 Explaining Human Behavior
Why do people think, feel, and act the way
they do?
Neuroscience.
• Study of the complex human brain to advance the
understanding of human thought, emotion, and
behavior.
Consciousness.
• The conscious mind is the part of the brain that
controls the mental processes of which we are
aware. The subconscious mind is the part of the
brain that controls the mental processes of which
we are not actively aware.

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 Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
Cognition (thought).
• Mental processing of information in any form.
• Includes: perceiving, recognizing, remembering, reasoning,
solving problems, making decisions, forming concepts,
visualizing.
Emotion (feeling).
• Subjective feeling accompanied by physical and
behavioral changes.
• Includes: joy, love, interest, pride, embarrassment, guilt, shame,
despair, fear, anger, disgust, sadness.
Success Secret
• Thoughts, feelings, and actions are all connected.
Personal Journal 1.2 Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
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 Positive and Negative Emotions

Success Secret
Pay attention to what is happening inside you and why.
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 Understanding Yourself
Self - Your sense of being a unique, conscious being, the
inner core of you.
• Develops over time based on input from environment.
• Influenced by our perceptions.
Self-Image - How you see yourself.
• Determines what you do, how you behave, how well you
perform, and the effort you put into something.
• Many self-images: as a daughter/son, mother/father, friend, a
person who’s funny or wealthy, etc.
• Reticular activating system dominates your behavior patterns
and creates a corresponding self-image.
Success Secret
• A sense of self helps you understand the world and make plans and
decisions.
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 Building a Healthy Self Esteem
• A healthy self-image is positive but realistic.
• Make the best of all the things you do well.
• Is based on who you are right now.
• Does not limit who you will be next week.
• A complex self-image means having a variety of
positive ways to see yourself.
Personal Journal 1.3 How Do You See Yourself?
Activity 4: Wheel of Life
Success Secret
• It’s healthy to find balance in your life.

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 You and Your Social World
Social Role.
• A set of norms that define how you are supposed
to behave in a given social position or setting.
Self-Preservation.
• Altering your behavior to make a good impression
on others.
Activity 5: Sides of Yourself
Success Secret
• No one sees you the way you see yourself.

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 Identity
Identity.
• How you choose to define yourself to the world.
Individual Identity.
• The physical and psychological characteristics that
distinguish you.
Relational Identity.
• How you identify yourself in relation to others.
Collective Identity.
• The sum of the social roles you play and the social
groups to which you belong.

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 Culture, Gender, and Identity 1

Culture - Behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and

traditions shared by a large social group,
transmitted from one generation to the next.
• Western - individualism.
• Eastern - collectivism.

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 Culture, Gender, and Identity 2

• Gender Role - Set of norms that define how males and

females are supposed to behave.
• Gender Bias - When one is treated differently or unfairly
due to one’s gender.
• Gender Identity - How one identifies oneself (male or
female, a blend of male and female, or neither male nor
female).
Activity 6: Identify Profile

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