(To read about the book, The Guru Trap, please click here.) How To Avoid Being Led Astray People love following gurus. The word itself is a religious term meaning “teacher” or “priest.” But it also means the guy people follow in self-development or financial circles. It’s one thing to learn some useful information from […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]
Trial and Error
Modeling Success Is Impossible One of the cornerstones of NLP is modeling. In fact, the entirety of NLP was created through modeling. The linguistic-persuasion aspect was modeled from the top therapists at the time. NLP if often referred to as the “study of excellence.” Which means they find people doing excellent things, copy them, and […]
Social Sleight of Mouth
Insane Frame Building Sleight of Mouth (SOM) is a very powerful set of tools to overcome objections on a linguistic-logical level. However, they work for a lot of reasons besides the way people think they work. For example, let’s consider a very common price objection, which serves as a model in many books and courses […]
Guaranteed Goal Setting
How To Get Any Goal Set any goals recently? Most people don’t. Most of us know that we should set goals, but few people ever do. We’ve all heard the same stories about people with written goals being worth ten times more than the people without written goals. At the same time, most people know […]
The Myth Of Balance
I used to know this guy that trained in some esoteric version of Karate. He was Japanese, and he learned from somebody who learned from the creator. Nobody famous and this particular “school” wasn’t that large, only a handful of people had learned from the original guy, and then went out and taught that particular […]
Are You On Your Own Road?
One common things that happens are a big event, especially one that’s been building for a long time is a sense of “letdown.” When I was a kid, I would always look forward to family trips, and I would always feel extremely depressed when the trip was over. After having some fun in a faraway […]
Create YOUR Burning Desire
When I was a kid, I used to LOVE “playing” with these do-it-yourself, Radio Shack electronic kits. It was this big board, with all kinds of circuit components, and next to each particular component was a small spring, in which you could insert a wire. All in all, there were maybe 50 or 100 separate […]
How To Master The Game Of Life
There’s always been a huge running debate about the makeup of man. Some say that we are born as blank slates, and are incredible learning machines. Some say that we are filled with ancient instincts that drive our behavior. But William James, an old philosopher, said we are both. Meaning we have tons of instincts […]
How Often Are You Manipulated?
Optical illusions are pretty cool, and they are very similar, in structure, to jokes. With optical illusions, you trick your brain into seeing two different things at the same time. Like that famous one that’s either a young lady looking one way, or an old lady looking the other way. You brain flips back and […]