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This self-image becomes a golden key to living a better life because of two important discoveries:
由于以下兩項重要發現，這一自我意象便成了開啟美好生活之門的金鑰匙：
1. All your actions, feelings, behavior --- even your abilities --- are always consistent with this self-image.
一、你的一切行動、感情、舉止，甚至你的才能，都始終與這一自我意象一致。
In short, you will "act like" the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this,but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or will power. The man who conceives himself to be a "failure type person" will find some way to fail, in spite of all his good intentions, or his will power, even if opportunity is literally dumped in his lap. The person who conceives himself to be a victim of injustice, one "who was meantto suffer" will invariably find circumstances to verify his opinions.
簡而言之，你把自己想象成怎樣一種人，你就會怎樣行動。而且，不管你有多大的意志力或作出怎樣有意識的努力，你也根本不可能不這樣去行動。不管一個人有多么良好的意愿或堅強的意志力，如果他把自己想象成一個“失敗型的人”，他就會找到某種辦法失敗，哪怕把機會倒在他懷里他也不會抓住。一個把自己想象成不公正行為的受害者的人，一個“注定要吃苦”的人，總會找到各種環境來證實他的看法。
The self-image is a "premise," a base, or a foundation upon which your entire personality, your behavior, and even your circumstances are built. Because of this our experiences seem to verify, and thereby strengthen our self-images, and a vicious or a beneficent cycle, as the case may be, is set up.
自我意象是一個“前提”，一個根據，或者一種基礎，在此之上建筑著你的整個個性、你的行為，甚至你的環境。正因為如此，我們的種種經歷便似乎證實并從而加強了我們的自我意象； 于是，一種惡性——或良性——循環便就此形成了。
