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2. The self-image can be changed. Numerous case histories have shown that one is never too young nor too old to change his self-image and thereby start to live a new life.
二、自我意象是可以改變的。無數病例表明：任何人，不論年齡大小，都來得及改變他的自我意象，從而開始一種新的生活。
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center. Numerous patients have said to me something like the following: "If you are talking about 'positive thinking', I've tried that before, and it just doesn't work for me." However, a little questioning invariably brings out that these individuals have employed "positive thinking," or attempted to employ it, either upon particular external circumstances, or upon some particular habit or character defect ("I will get that job." " I will be more calm and relaxed in the future." "Thisbusiness venture will turn out right for me," etc.) But they had never thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.
一個人似乎難以改變自己的習慣、個性乃至生活方式，原因之一是迄今為止，幾乎所有試圖改變的努力可以說對準了自我的圓周，而不是圓心。無數病人對我說過諸如此類的話：“如果你談的是‘積極思維’，那我以前已經試過了，它對我根本不起作用。”然而，只需稍加詢問就會發現，這些人要么把“積極思維”用于（或試圖用于）某些特定的外部環境，要么用于某一特定的習慣或性格缺點（如：“我會得到那份工作。”“以后我要更加冷靜、放松。”“我這次商業冒險一定會成功”，等等）。但是，他們卻從來沒有想到改變對將要去完成這些事情的“自我”的看法。
