your future life story!
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PDF of presentation delivered to secondary school students about designing their lives and taking control of their destiny.TRANSCRIPT
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The challenge...
How our minds work...
New tools
The challenge...
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“I did it again...”
Tribal Thinking
How our minds
work...
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed2. Our choices are driven by emotion…not knowledge!
Positive Emotions:
LoveHappinessJoyGratitudeSerenityInterestHopePrideInspirationAmusementAwe
Negative Emotions:
AngerSadnessFearDisgustSuspicionShameHopelessnessRageContemptDisappointedRejection
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed2. Our choices are driven by emotion…not knowledge! 3. We can choose our emotions…
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Reticulating Activation System
3 Decisions:
1.What will I focus on (feel)?2.What does it mean?3.What will I do about it?
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed2. Our choices are driven by emotion…not knowledge! 3. We can choose our emotions…
4. We see what we’re looking for!
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Potential
Belief
Action
Results
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•First person in history to break the 4 minute mile•Practiced Mentally (visualized the race)•With 2 years 24 people broke the 4 minute mile•Today some high school athletes can break the 4 minute mile
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Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio investigated the strength benefits of imagining exercising a muscle. They reported that just thinking about exercise helped maintain muscle strength in a group of subjects
measurements of the brain activity during visualization sessions suggest that these strength gains were due to improvements in the brain's ability to signal muscle activity. Suddenly the benefit of visualization is clear
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed2. Our choices are driven by emotion…not knowledge! 3. We can choose our emotions…
4. We see what we’re looking for!5. See the ending first…
New tools
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Potential
Belief
Action
Results
Attitude
We choose itWe see what we're looking for
What if we approached each situation with a feeling of curiosity?
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Human Needs
1.Certainty
2.Uncertainty
3.To feel important
4.Connection with others
5.Growth
6.Contribution
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Disadvantaged…??
William Kamkwamba
•Citizen of Malawi•Farming community•Left school during a famine – could no longer pay school fees•Self educated: visited the library to learn about windmills…from English books. He did not speak English!
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•At 14 years old – built a working windmill providing electricity to his family home.•Materials: used bicycles and scrap parts.
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The defining factor to success isNever resources, it’s resourcefulness
Resources ResourcefulnessTime CreativityMoney DeterminationTechnology Love/CaringContacts CuriosityExperience PassionManagement Resolve
Harvard Study
the students were asked, "Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?"
3% -10 Times as much $ as 97% combined!
POWERFUL IDEAS:
1. Our sub-conscious can be programmed2. Our choices are driven by emotion…not knowledge! 3. We can choose our emotions…
4. We see what we’re looking for!5. See the ending first… 6. Slowing down…to bring clarity
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