David Viscott
David Viscott
David Viscott, was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth24 May 1938
CountryUnited States of America
If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
You are the only one who has to live your life.
Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.
Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
You don't have to try, you just have to be.
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.