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
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.
You don't have to try, you just have to be.
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
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.
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
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.
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.