The video emphasizes the significance of a growth-oriented mindset and continuous learning for achieving personal and professional success. It advocates for habits such as daily reading, attending seminars, and engaging with educational audio content as a means to enhance knowledge and efficiency within one's field. By adopting these practices, individuals can incrementally improve their performance, productivity, and ultimately reach top-tier positions in their sectors.
An intriguing insight of the video is its exploration of the hawthorne effect, which postulates that simply focusing on a particular behavior can lead to improved performance in that area. It extends the idea to self-talk and visualization, suggesting that positive affirmations and mental imagery can dramatically influence one's optimism, energy levels, and creativity. By continuously focusing on personal development, individuals can transform their futures and achieve potential successes that might seem unattainable at present.
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1. growth orientation [ɡroʊθ ɔːrɪˈɛnteɪʃən] - (n.) - A mindset focused on continuous improvement and personal development. - Synonyms: (progressive mindset, development focus, growth mindset)
growth orientation is a critical habit of thought and behavior that is practiced by the most successful people in the world.
2. optimism [ˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm] - (n.) - The hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something. - Synonyms: (hopefulness, positivity, confidence)
...in the process of cultivating the habit of optimism.
3. hawthorne effect ['hɔːθɔːrn ɪˈfɛkt] - (n.) - A phenomenon where individuals improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. - Synonyms: (observation effect, reactivity, performance improvement)
There is an important principle in psychology called the hawthorne effect.
4. visualization [ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən] - (n.) - The formation of a mental image of something. - Synonyms: (mental imagery, envisioning, imagination)
The most powerful affirmation or message you can send from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind is a visualization or mental image
5. self-talk [sɛlf tɔːk] - (n.) - The act or practice of talking to oneself, either aloud or silently and mentally. - Synonyms: (inner dialogue, personal dialogue, introspection)
It is possible to become an optimist if you change the way you talk to yourself.
6. reference group [ˈrɛfrəns ɡruːp] - (n.) - A social group that an individual uses as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior. - Synonyms: (peer group, social group, comparator group)
Dr. David McClellan of Harvard discovered that your reference group determines as much as 95% of your success or failure in your personal and professional life.
7. affirmation [ˌæfəˈmeɪʃən] - (n.) - The action or process of affirming something or being affirmed. - Synonyms: (assertion, declaration, assertion)
The most powerful affirmation or message you can send from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind is a visualization or mental image.
8. prestigious [prɛˈstɪdʒəs] - (adj.) - Inspiring respect and admiration; having high status. - Synonyms: (distinguished, illustrious, eminent)
...in order to earn a doctoral degree from a prestigious university...
9. prosperity [prɒˈspɛrɪti] - (n.) - The state of being prosperous; wealth or success. - Synonyms: (affluence, wealth, success)
...to move from poverty and frustration to prosperity and success.
10. visualization Techniques [ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən tɛkˈniːks] - (n.) - Methods or practices involving the creation of mental images to promote personal goals or improvements. - Synonyms: (mental imaging, envisioning methods, visual strategy)
Positive and successful people have the habit of continuously visualizing the results they desire.
How to ORIENT YOURSELF toward GROWTH - Brian Tracy Motivational Speech
growth orientation is a critical habit of thought and behavior that is practiced by the most successful people in the world as well as being a crucial component in the process of cultivating the habit of optimism. This is the highway to outstanding performance. The foundation of excellence orientation is this style of thinking and living and it is vital to cultivate this way of thinking and living if you want to be classified among the top 10% in your industry. In order to cultivate a growth oriented mindset, it is necessary to cultivate the habit of continuous learning, which encompasses both personal and professional development, without interruption. In the same way that you work out on a regular basis to maintain your physical fitness, you will need to work out your mind on a daily basis in order to improve your performance in the field that you have chosen.
One of the three measures that can be taken to speed up the process of continuous learning is to engage in these activities on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. This will result in an improvement of tenths of a percent in your productivity, performance and outcomes on a daily basis. Without fail, you will establish yourself as one of the professionals in your sector who earns the highest salaries and achieves the greatest levels of accomplishment. Read every day, get up early every morning, and spend between 30 and 60 minutes reading something related to your field. Highlight and take notes. Think about how you could apply what you are reading in your daily work. Throughout the day, think about how to use what you have read to be more effective. At the end of each day, review your day to see what you have learned and evaluate your results and progress.
There is an important principle in psychology called the hawthorne effect. In short, this principle postulates that the mere act of paying attention to a specific behavior improves your performance in that area. For example, if you decide to develop the habit of listening more attentively to people without interrupting them, the mere act of thinking about listening will make you a better listener. If you decide to focus on punctuality every day until punctuality becomes a habit, the mere act of thinking about being more punctual will make you more punctual in your personal and professional life. The more you think about a behavior, the better you will be in that area. If you read something about your field every day for half an hour or an hour and think during the day about how to apply what you have learned, you will become better at what you do both consciously and unconsciously. The improvement in the results you obtain will accumulate over time.
There is a good chance that you will improve at what you do virtually without even noticing it over the course of a year. You will have read 50 novels if you read one book every week. It has been discovered that in order to earn a doctoral degree from a prestigious university, one must study and summarize the contents of an average of 40 to 50 volumes into a dissertation. It is possible to acquire the knowledge that is equivalent to a PhD in your field of expertise if you read one book every week or 50 books per year. Should you maintain this rate of reading, you will have completed the reading of 500 volumes during the next 10 years.
Do you believe that you will be able to make a major difference in a world where the typical individual reads fewer than one book each week? The reality is that if you make it a practice to read for 30 to 60 minutes every morning, you may easily become the most knowledgeable, the most knowledgeable, and the most professionally compensated anyone in your industry. I have never seen anyone anywhere in the world who has not been able to improve their life and career by making reading a daily habit an integral part of their routine.
You should make it a habit to switch off the radio and television, put the newspaper down, and get up a little bit earlier every morning so that you can devote some time to mentally engaging activities. This investment will yield greater benefits in terms of results, rewards, and satisfaction than anything else you do. Learn from Experts. The second habit you need to develop for continuous learning is to attend every seminar and course you can. Don't make the mistake of waiting for these to come to you or expecting your company to organize and pay for additional training. You are solely responsible for your income, which includes your personal and professional development. No one cares as much about your future and career as you do.
Your ability to increase your income and enter that top 10% of your field is up to you. In my life, I have given talks to more than 5 million men and women in 82 countries. I have filled cabinets with letters and received thousands of emails from my students and from people who have attended my seminars. Many of them write to me to say that they are traveling to another city to attend a seminar or workshop given by an expert or specialist in their field. They will invest a huge amount of time and money to acquire the specific skills they most need to thrive in their field.
Time and again, my students have told me that sometimes they have saved themselves years of hard work by participating in a program. Some of them have even reached the top in their field and become millionaires by learning a new set of skills that were relevant and applied immediately in their field. When adults learn, something amazing happens. It's not at all like having to take a required college course. You'll meet better people at adult workshops than the kind of people you normally hang out with. They think more positively, are more driven, have bigger and better goals, and are more set on succeeding. You will feel something strong and subtle after spending a few hours with these people.
Being around other great people who also go to adult learning sessions will make you a better and more focused person every year. Make it a point to find and go to at least four seminars in your area. Don't miss the yearly or national conventions that your company puts on. Find the most important talks and conferences at each of these classes or yearly meetings and make sure you go to them. A good idea from a professional in your field can sometimes change the course of your whole career while driving.
Listen to podcasts Listening to radio programs in the car, while walking or while working out, is the third habit that you need to keep up with learning. Learning through audio is considered by many to be the greatest advance in education since the invention of the printing press. And I agree. I discovered learning through audio when I was 23 years old. I was frustrated, working long hours and broke. When I started listening to audio programs on a portable cassette player that I carried with me, my life was transformed in an incredible way. I learned essential selling skills from expert professionals who had been selling my product for years, and thanks to this, I went from being among the worst salespeople on my team to being among the best in less than six months. Eventually, I was made a sales director and taught dozens of people the same techniques.
Over the years, I have trained hundreds of thousands of salespeople, teaching them the best techniques and methodologies discovered in professional selling. Many of them have become leading salespeople and even millionaires. An average person spends between 500 and 1,000 hours a year in their car. This is equivalent to the time worked during six months with 40 hour work weeks or the equivalent of one or two semesters of university. A study by the University of South Carolina concludes that a person could achieve the equivalent of attending almost all the classes of a college degree simply by listening to audio programs while driving from one place to another during the week.
Reid Buckley, a professional speaker, once said, if you aren't learning new things and getting better at what you already know, someone else is, you will lose when you meet that person. The race has begun. You are in the race now, even if you don't know it. It's a habit that someone somewhere in the world is reading every day, going to regular classes and seminars, and Listening to audio programs in the car while driving. If you don't start doing these things, you will lose the race. Good news. A normal person who makes it a habit to learn new things all the time will end up much smarter than a genius who watches TV every night.
There is probably no habit that guarantees more success in life than the habit of continuously improving, both personally and professionally. The benefits of improving your results in your area of specialization will be enormous. But the best benefit of all is that you will be a more positive and optimistic person. You will have more energy, be more creative and happier as you will always be moving towards the realization of your full potential. The habit of continuous learning enables ordinary people to become the top performers in their fields. It allows them to go from poverty to wealth. It gives them the strength to move from poverty and frustration to prosperity and success.
Continuous learning opens all doors, increases your intelligence and creativity, and allows you to advance in your career at a rapid pace. Continuous learning is neutral. Anyone can use it to achieve extraordinary things in life. It is one of the best habits you can develop as its benefits last a lifetime. You decide what will happen to you. Everyone has made their own way. The things that happened to you as a child shape the person you are now. But you are the only one who can change who you will be and become.
What are you thinking about right now? That's what the saying you will be. What you think about most of the time means. What you think about the past or what you think about the future doesn't affect what will happen to you. What you think controls everything about you and who you will become. You have the power to change your thoughts whenever you want to. It is possible to become an optimist if you change the way you talk to yourself. Choose today to start talking positively to yourself and every day. A lot of psychologists agree that what you think and say to yourself during the day controls 95% of your feelings.
Your mind should not be filled with things you don't want or that make you question and fear. Instead, it should be filled with things you want to think about and talk about. What you see is what you will be. The most powerful affirmation or message you can send from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind is a visualization or mental image. Develop the habit of creating positive, clear and exciting images of yourself acting in the best way possible and visualize your goals as if you had already achieved them. Every time you create a mental image in your conscious mind, you send a message that activates your subconscious mind and triggers the law of attraction stimulates your creativity and brings you closer to realizing that mental image in your outer world.
Positive and successful people have the habit of continuously visualizing the results they desire, thus programming their subconscious mind to form an image of themselves and their performance in a successful manner. The best thing is to combine positive self talk and positive mental visualization, talking about the things you want and creating captivating mental images of your goals and desires as if they already existed. Positive thoughts and words make you more optimistic, give you more energy and help you recover more quickly from disappointments so you can keep moving forward throughout the day.
Mind protein is what you need. Make it a habit to give your mind good things to think about. Always keep in mind that the radio, tv, newspapers, magazines, ads and talks with other people can have a big effect on you. As a result, you should take care of your mind and keep it clean, clear and focused on what you want. You should not let bad thoughts or influences get into it. Stay away from trash TV and scary TV shows. Don't read the news about killings, thefts and other bad things that happen. Don't pay attention to the radio talk that says nothing useful about all the troubles in the world today. Try not to talk about the political and social problems in your town or country for hours on end. Make sure your mind is free, clean and full of good things.
You will not only become what you think about, but also what you feed your mind on a daily basis when you want to be happy, positive and full of hope. Read and watch positive things. Learn from positive programs. Get positive ideas and information from other experts in your field and talk to positive, goal oriented people. Get used to associating only with people you admire, respect and aspire to. Be like don't have coffee with the first person sitting in the coffee room. Don't go out to lunch with the person closest to the door. Don't socialize after work with the first person who invites you.
Be clear about the type of people you want to influence your thoughts and feelings with their conversation and opinions. Dr. David McClellan of Harvard discovered that your reference group determines as much as 95% of your success or failure in your personal and professional life. Your reference group is the group of people you habitually associate with and are a part of. They can be family members, co workers, or members of your political party, church, or a social organization. The fact is that birds of a feather flock together. Or as motivational speaker Zeke said, you can't soar with the eagles if you continue to hang out with the turkeys.
Tony Robbins says that your income will be the average income of the five people you spend the most time with. Who are these people in your case? Finally, if you want to reach your full potential, you need to make it a habit to take action. Being action oriented is the trait that most clearly stands out among studies of successful people in almost any area. These traits make people in charge of their lives and careers. To be action oriented, you need to get into the habit of moving quickly. You are always thinking about what you can do to move toward your goal or get that one thing that is so important to you as soon as you have an idea or a chance.
Doing something in the present is more important to you than talking about what you will do in the future over and over again. Once you know what you want your future to be like and what your goals and plans are, you can make a plan to be the best in your field. Make a promise to keep learning in all the important parts of your life and work. Get into the habit of moving quickly and taking the lead. Get into the habit of making things happen instead of waiting for them to happen. Take action to change any situation you want to change instead of waiting for things to get better. Changing the way you think and becoming a great person without anyone else's help is hard, but you can do it if you decide to improve your character and attitude on your own.
People who have been successful know that the faster you react to a new idea, the more likely it is that you won't do anything with it. It seems that moving quickly in one area makes you more likely to act quickly in other areas as well. What you should do right away if you have learned something important or have an idea for how to make your life better, do it right now. Give people a sense of urgency quickly. You should be known as someone who moves quickly on any new idea or chance. Getting into this habit could be one of the most important things you do.
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