The writer has been in the private offices of a great many industrial leaders, business men, great bankers, and others, and long before this science of belief was understood by him, he was impressed with the pictures, photographs, slogans, bits of statuary, and so forth, which were to be found in the inner untility concern are hung the photographs of the early leaders in the industry; in another office are pictures of the great financiers of history; in some there are busts of Napoleon; in others little shrines, good-sized statues of Buddha; and I saw offices where there hung on the walls such slogans as "We do the impossible - any place, any time," "If it can be done, we can do it," "Do it now," "Be a self-starter - don't wait to be cranked." It is reported that F. W. Woolworth, who became known as the Napoleon of business, had his private office in quaters that were a replica of Napoleon's study. Undoubtedly many of you have seen or heard of such displays, but has it ever occured to you what their purpose was?

Their can be only one answer, and that is that they serve as a constant reminder - getting the picture over to the occupant of the room that he too can succeed as did those before him. He has a motto or a slogan to meet his gaze every time he looks around the room. He sees and feels the eyes of Napoleon upon him when he sits at his desk, or he feels a touch of the spiritual as he gazes at the little shrine. In other words, they are a form of mechanics that the executive uses to excite his imagination, a picture to inspire him, or a series of suggesting froces that reach his subconscious mind. In many a doctor's office (and in some of those who would scoff at the great power of suggestion) hang the photographs of great men of medicine, or famous teachers in medical schools. I have often wondered if the doctors realized the underying power of these potraits.

When we realize that the subconscious mind is senitized to the point that it works accurately to externalize the suggestion which is most greatly impressed upon it, we then get a better understanding of the necessity for concentration and for constant repetition of the one suggestion.

Source: Bristol, C. (1969). The Magic of Believing (pp. 84-85). Pocket Books.

That was a good food for thought. Thanks for bringing it up. I'm gonna use it in my bedroom, and maybe my living room too D;. To be honest, I have done this thing, though not in an extreme way. In my bedroom, I posted my estimated rating on one side of the wall, then post my expected rating on the other side. Both of them has a date which indicates the rating I want to achieve within a period of time.

Umm, well, i haven't really improved that much, but I noticed how different I was when I went back to chess this year. I pwned people easier, which does surprise me. I believe that if i had worked harder and smarter, I would be even better.

Anyway, i got that idea of pasting the stuff from an article which i dled with my P2P. D: Abuse the P2Ps, it can help out alot. Though you will need a few anti-viruses, the bugs can get annoying when they eat up your RAM.

Now all I need to do is to fix my [beep] printer.