Five Minutes to Happiness
About this ebook
“We are here in this world to succeed as human beings, not fail, and we can succeed and be happy if we care to learn a little about ourselves. All we need is five minutes a day to understand ourselves. Five minutes to happiness! It is the greatest adventure in our life. It’s up to us.”
This is from the introduction to a book that can constructively change your entire life and life pattern, be you fourteen, forty, or eighty! Dr. Maxwell Maltz, whose book PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS was a sensational bestseller, has applied his years of study and research into character change and development to help you. In simple steps and clear language, Dr. Maltz tells you about the happiness habit, and helps you develop it for yourself.
FIVE MINUTES TO HAPPINESS works! Take those few minutes each day and watch you and your life become better, more rewarding—and happier!
About the author
Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author. Born on March 10, 1899, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the third child of Josef Maltz and Taube Elzweig, Maltz graduated in 1923 with a doctorate in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After postgraduate work in plastic surgery in Europe, Maltz was appointed to head several departments of reparative surgery in New York hospitals over his long and distinguished career. A prominent international lecturer on the psychological aspects of plastic surgery, in the 1950s Maltz became increasingly fascinated by the number of patients who came to him requesting surgery, who had greatly exaggerated “mental pictures” of their physical deformities, and whose unhappiness and insecurities remained unchanged even after he gave them the new faces they desired. In 1960, after nearly a decade of counseling hundreds of such patients, extensive research, and testing his evolving theory of “success conditioning” on athletes, salespeople, and others, he published his findings in Psycho-Cybernetics (1960). He wrote several further books, including New Faces, New Futures and Dr. Pygmalion. Maltz’ orientation towards a system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the forerunner of the now popular self-help books. He passed away on April 7, 1975 at the age of 76.
