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The difference between performance psychology, clinical psychology, and counseling psychology
Clinical: meds for disordersCounseling: talking through problems(Both of these focus on the problem)Performance: action and life (peak performance, master the mind
The three psychological laws of high performance
1. Opposition: focusing on what to do, not what not to do
2. Attraction: what we focus on will become a habit and will attract more like thoughts
3. Occupied Space: we can only have one thought at a time, whether that be a positive or negative one
Neurons that fire together do what?
Wire together
Relationship between conscious mind, subconscious mind, and Central Nervous System
1. Conscious Mind: what we have control over- our thoughts
2. Subconscious Mind: habits and part of the mind that has been wired
3. CNS: we want to control what our CNS does
Deliberate self-referencing and proactive self-referencing
1. Deliberate Self-Referencing: intentionally talking to yourself- can be proactive or subtractive. 2nd dimension,
2. Proactive Self-Referencing: Self-talk that promotes action and is focused on what to do. 1st dimension
The percentage of illnesses we inadvertently give ourselves through our actions
75% self induced
We improve the most when we focus on what?
Focus on your strengths
The formula for high performance
1. Training +potential - interference = HP
Definition of conventional wisdom
Doing things because that is always how it has been done.
3 biggest sources of interference to the human mind (SNW)
Self doubt
Negative Intelligence
Worrying about others
Not studied (74)
You haven't studied these terms yet!
Select these 74
3 strategies to combat this interference
Self Belief
Positive intelligence
Control controllable
Definition of mediocrity
average mot very good
5 attributes of high performance and their percentages
Self Motivation 76%
Self Confidence 8%
Emotional Stability 7%
Athletic ability 5%
Character 4%
a. How much of what we do is counter-productive?
77%
The percentage of illnesses we inadvertently give ourselves through our actions
75%
How to build self-belief in ourselves
1. using the 3:1, control the controllable, power statements, can do mindset, into out mindset,
2. Intend = direction
3. Attend = action
What causes us to doubt
1. Worrying about others, dwelling on problems, a can't do mindset, past experiences, focusing on the future or the past
Pattern Hierarchy
Proactive
Positive
Other thoughts
Negative
Subtractive
3 dimensions of cognitive ability (be able to explain the mechanics of cognitive ability)
1- Self-Mastery or controlling ourselves authentic thoughts2- Influencing the environment in to out mindset3- Leadership- helping other master themselves
What causes conformity?
We do not think for ourselves, conventional wisdom
Formula for faith
Belief + Action = Faith
Process of how actions become habits
1. using our conscious mind to overcome the subconscious
Difference and examples of positive and negative intelligence
1. Positive knowing what to do, negative is what we should not do
The secret of success, according to the lecture
Obtaining Skills
Using positive intelligence
Difference between knowledge and intelligence
1. Intelligence is actionable knowledge and knowledge is the knowledge coming in
Formula for acquiring new skills (CCOLR)
Can do mindset
Controlling controllable
Organizing your mind
living in the present,
reniforcing patterns
3 Main findings from The Mundanity of Excellence
1. Talent is useless concept
2. excellence is mundane
3. Excellence is a qualitative concept- quality over quantity
Proactive vs reactive mindset
1. Proactive is when we are acting for ourselves and are taking responsibility- approach pattern
2. Reactive is when we are waiting for someone else to act and we are in an avoidance pattern
Approach vs avoidance mentality
1. Approach is proactive
2. Avoidance is reactive
Conformity = ??
You have failed and mediocrity
In-to-out mindset vs out-to-in mindset. Internal locus vs external locus of control
1. In to Out is an internal locus of control- you are in control
2. Out to In is an external locus of control- the environment is in control
Meaning and application of 10-80-10
1. top 10% are high performers and improve fast
2. middle 80% slowly improve
3. bottom 10% don't improve
Definition and application of deliberate practice
1. Must be intended to improve performance
2. Reaches for goals just beyond reach
3. Involves a high level of repetition
Feedback on results
5 areas of the journal you rate yourself on everyday
Motivation
Anxiety
Concentration
Confidence
Decision Making
1-5
c. How does deliberate practice contribute to success?
1. The training part of the HP formula
d. The emotions generally associated with the past, present, and future
Past : Guilt, depression
Present: focus and control
Future: Fear, Anxiety
How does the objective help us?
purpose and direction
The four characteristics of task orientation
People persist longer
Set challenging goals not to hard not to easy
Stronger work ethic
Perform better under pressure
The four characteristics of ego orientation
1. Give up easily
2. Set extreme goals (easy or hard)
3. Weaker work ethic
4. Perform poorly under pressure
Importance of living in the present
1. controlling the controllable so the future takes care of itself
We are less likely to miss information
How far out you should set your goals
I'd say two weeks to a month.
The 3 stages of development/growth
1. Growth is rapid
2. Growth slows down
3. Growth stops
Mindset of high performing athletes
1. They are deliberate, proactive, never feel finished and have a can do minset.
a. Relationship between anxiety and control
1. The less control you feel the more anxiety
2. The more control you have the less anxiety
a. Difference between good and bad anxiety
1. Crippling is bad
2. Leads to action = good
What creates a psychological gap?
1. Getting ahead of yourself
2. Letting anxiety occupy the space
3. Dwelling on the past
What did Marianne Williamson say?
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
Thomas Henry Huley said what?
1. "The great end of life is not knowledge but Action."
key to success
Authenticity
What is conventional wisdom?
Doing things just because that's how it's always been done
Generally accepted ideas
The concept that new ideas are compared to
What is the core of all excellence? (HINT: stepping stone to the "keys of success" mentioned in the lesson)
Accurate thought
What is the most dangerous pattern of thought?
Subtractive thoughts
When the conscious mind is engaged, it overrides the subconscious and communicates directly with the central nervous system .
Know this
Describe the 3 elements that make up the High Performance formula, and then explain why neglecting "potential" leads to mediocrity.
Potential is what you love what you are born with. Training is your deliberate practice. and interference is your doubt and the things that get in your way.
neglecting your potential will make you mediocre
What are the 3 biggest forms of interference? What are the 3 skills used to combat interference? Where do you see this in your own life? (You need complete answers for all 3 questions to get full credit)
Self doubt, negative intelligence, worrying about others.
Combat: Self belief
positive intelligence
control the controllable
What is the difference between positive and proactive self-talk?
Positive doesn't involve action. Positive is simply saying it's a nice day while sitting in the passenger seat of a car but proactive self-talk puts you in the driver seat. Proactive involves action. You don't just think positively you act. Action is the biggest difference.
Explain why Napoleon Hill thinks it is so important to have independent thoughts. How does this relate to conformity, as it was discussed in the lecture?
Independent thought is the only thing we can have absolute control over. We can not always control our environment but we can control our thoughts. Conformity is giving up this control. It can kill our creativity and our ability to adapt.
What happens when you dwell on your mistakes? What should you do to combat those subtractive thoughts?
When we consistently dwell on our mistakes, they become part of our subconscious. Creating subtractive patterns that will lead you into a spiral.
we must replace the mistake with a proactive solution. it isnt even worth storing the mistake in our subconscious
By drawing on examples from the Harvard Business Review article, explain how positive intelligence relates to increased productivity and creativity in life.
Burt's bees has pointing out the good work the employees were doing, rather their focusing on their weak points. They speak positively of employees success openly. This allowed them to focus on their strengths and ultimately be incredibly successful as a company.
What is the biggest difference between knowledge and intelligence?
Knowledge is like that library of information inside of your head that is present. Intelligence is the ability to not only have that information available to you but being able to recall it. Which is a skill. Intelligence is actionable knowledge.
Explain how completing the 3:1 allows you to condition your own narrative.
It helps you code the brian, and the more coding you do the better your skills become. You are then creating those postive patterns in your brain that become skills.
The accumilation of skills is the secret to success. The acquisition of skills is the key to success.
The more tangible and real your coding is the more your skill will be.
We can control our own narrative when we do the 3 to 1. 3 specific things we did great and one thing you can work on.
What is the one thing we have direct control over?
Ourselves
What are the top 10% doing that the other 90% are not?
Holding themselves accountable
What fires a neuron?
Self-talk
What happens when you enter into avoidance patterns?
You give away your locus of control
You depend on your environment for constant approval
Learned helplessness
You cannot hold yourself accountable without writing down your plan of action.
True
Please give a brief explanation of the 3 major conclusions drawn from the Mundanity of Excellence research.
Excellence is a bout quality and not just quantity. Talent is crap. It can lead you to focus on a mystic power as the reason you succeed rather than concrete actions that create success. Lastly, excellence is achieve by doing actions and making them ordinary, exact, and consistently enough that they become habitualized and those actions or skills combine together.
Why is it so important to hold ourselves accountable?
If we don't hold ourselves accountable, we will never know what we need to work on.
Take accountability for what we are doing instead of are not. I love this because we use this word almost terribly. Somebody cares and guys we care.
The accountability is the center of control.
We can only control ourselves.
Name the 5 areas of your journal and the purpose of each one.
Step 1: Objective
So you know what you intend to do and so you can keep your focus what you want.
Step 2: Plan
So you can be deliberate in your approach to accomplish the objective.
Steps 3 Strengths
Do often we don't improve because we don't see what we are doing well. We get swallowed up the negative. This is give us the motivation to move forward.
Step 4 Improvement
This is should only be one to not overwhelmed ourselves but is to still help us progress
Step 5 Evaluation
This keeps us accountable.
According to Napoleon Hill, what is the most critical thing for all high performing and successful people to have? Explain.
They must have purpose, which creates motive which is the thing that drives people and they have a dominate idea
How can you relate building mental strength to pulling weeds?
If you focus on the negatives, they will just get stronger, like pulling weeds, we need to focus on our mental skills that way they can grow, become deep rooted and drown out the negatives.
According to Colvin, what do top performers understand the significance of that average performers don't even notice? Give an example of this that's not in the book.
They understand the indicators, the "nonobvious information that's important." So the example given was how a top tennis player focuses on the body of the server not the ball.
Do you have direct control over outcome goals?
No
What is the opposite of perfectionism?
Realistic expectations
We should have goals that will....us but not.... us
Stretch us not Stress
Our self-worth is evaluated based on [blank] , not on [blank] .
Performance
Outcome
Explain the difference between task and ego. Such as how is their work ethic? What kind of goals do they set?
When you are ego oriented you are (prideful) others thought
less persistence
choose extreme goals
less work ethic
don't perform well
compared to task oriented (humble) your thoughts
persistence is higher.
more challenging tasks
work harder
perform better
What is the key skill behind grit? Explain
Persistence is the key skill behind grit, which all the researchers coming out showing that grit or cognitive control is what actually leads to success, not talent or even intelligence so much. It's persistence.
When you are persistent with a task you are stretching yourself.
Why is there anxiety when we dwell on the past?
When we start to dwell on the past, time continues to move forward, and it doesn't stop for anyone. the law of occupied space is a big supporter of this because we are not being present, and when we are not present anxiety beings to fill the space. When we don't keep pace with the present anxiety will take the space from the past and our mistakes.
Why do we need to set objectives that are in our direct control?
As mentioned in the lecture it helps us "sustain the present." This gives us the ability to adapt. For obvious reasons this is a strength a world which is constantly changing.
How does anxiety relate to control?
Anytime we feel we have control over something our anxiety will go down.
Blank and Blank is the technical term for concentration
Attention control
Focus is built off the Law of _________.
attraction
The difference between performance psychology, clinical psychology, and counseling psychology
Clinical: meds for disordersCounseling: talking through problems(Both of these focus on the problem)Performance: action and life (peak performance, master the mind
The three psychological laws of high performance
1. Opposition: focusing on what to do, not what not to do
2. Attraction: what we focus on will become a habit and will attract more like thoughts
3. Occupied Space: we can only have one thought at a time, whether that be a positive or negative one
Neurons that fire together do what?
Wire together
Relationship between conscious mind, subconscious mind, and Central Nervous System
1. Conscious Mind: what we have control over- our thoughts
2. Subconscious Mind: habits and part of the mind that has been wired
3. CNS: we want to control what our CNS does
Deliberate self-referencing and proactive self-referencing
1. Deliberate Self-Referencing: intentionally talking to yourself- can be proactive or subtractive. 2nd dimension,
2. Proactive Self-Referencing: Self-talk that promotes action and is focused on what to do. 1st dimension
The percentage of illnesses we inadvertently give ourselves through our actions
75% self induced
We improve the most when we focus on what?
Focus on your strengths
The formula for high performance
1. Training +potential - interference = HP
Definition of conventional wisdom
Doing things because that is always how it has been done.
3 biggest sources of interference to the human mind (SNW)
Self doubt
Negative Intelligence
Worrying about others
Not studied (74)
You haven't studied these terms yet!
Select these 74
3 strategies to combat this interference
Self Belief
Positive intelligence
Control controllable
Definition of mediocrity
average mot very good
5 attributes of high performance and their percentages
Self Motivation 76%
Self Confidence 8%
Emotional Stability 7%
Athletic ability 5%
Character 4%
a. How much of what we do is counter-productive?
77%
The percentage of illnesses we inadvertently give ourselves through our actions
75%
How to build self-belief in ourselves
1. using the 3:1, control the controllable, power statements, can do mindset, into out mindset,
2. Intend = direction
3. Attend = action
What causes us to doubt
1. Worrying about others, dwelling on problems, a can't do mindset, past experiences, focusing on the future or the past
Pattern Hierarchy
Proactive
Positive
Other thoughts
Negative
Subtractive
3 dimensions of cognitive ability (be able to explain the mechanics of cognitive ability)
1- Self-Mastery or controlling ourselves authentic thoughts2- Influencing the environment in to out mindset3- Leadership- helping other master themselves
What causes conformity?
We do not think for ourselves, conventional wisdom
Formula for faith
Belief + Action = Faith
Process of how actions become habits
1. using our conscious mind to overcome the subconscious
Difference and examples of positive and negative intelligence
1. Positive knowing what to do, negative is what we should not do
The secret of success, according to the lecture
Obtaining Skills
Using positive intelligence
Difference between knowledge and intelligence
1. Intelligence is actionable knowledge and knowledge is the knowledge coming in
Formula for acquiring new skills (CCOLR)
Can do mindset
Controlling controllable
Organizing your mind
living in the present,
reniforcing patterns
3 Main findings from The Mundanity of Excellence
1. Talent is useless concept
2. excellence is mundane
3. Excellence is a qualitative concept- quality over quantity
Proactive vs reactive mindset
1. Proactive is when we are acting for ourselves and are taking responsibility- approach pattern
2. Reactive is when we are waiting for someone else to act and we are in an avoidance pattern
Approach vs avoidance mentality
1. Approach is proactive
2. Avoidance is reactive
Conformity = ??
You have failed and mediocrity
In-to-out mindset vs out-to-in mindset. Internal locus vs external locus of control
1. In to Out is an internal locus of control- you are in control
2. Out to In is an external locus of control- the environment is in control
Meaning and application of 10-80-10
1. top 10% are high performers and improve fast
2. middle 80% slowly improve
3. bottom 10% don't improve
Definition and application of deliberate practice
1. Must be intended to improve performance
2. Reaches for goals just beyond reach
3. Involves a high level of repetition
Feedback on results
5 areas of the journal you rate yourself on everyday
Motivation
Anxiety
Concentration
Confidence
Decision Making
1-5
c. How does deliberate practice contribute to success?
1. The training part of the HP formula
d. The emotions generally associated with the past, present, and future
Past : Guilt, depression
Present: focus and control
Future: Fear, Anxiety
How does the objective help us?
purpose and direction
The four characteristics of task orientation
People persist longer
Set challenging goals not to hard not to easy
Stronger work ethic
Perform better under pressure
The four characteristics of ego orientation
1. Give up easily
2. Set extreme goals (easy or hard)
3. Weaker work ethic
4. Perform poorly under pressure
Importance of living in the present
1. controlling the controllable so the future takes care of itself
We are less likely to miss information
How far out you should set your goals
I'd say two weeks to a month.
The 3 stages of development/growth
1. Growth is rapid
2. Growth slows down
3. Growth stops
Mindset of high performing athletes
1. They are deliberate, proactive, never feel finished and have a can do minset.
a. Relationship between anxiety and control
1. The less control you feel the more anxiety
2. The more control you have the less anxiety
a. Difference between good and bad anxiety
1. Crippling is bad
2. Leads to action = good
What creates a psychological gap?
1. Getting ahead of yourself
2. Letting anxiety occupy the space
3. Dwelling on the past
What did Marianne Williamson say?
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
Thomas Henry Huley said what?
1. "The great end of life is not knowledge but Action."
key to success
Authenticity
What is conventional wisdom?
Doing things just because that's how it's always been done
Generally accepted ideas
The concept that new ideas are compared to
What is the core of all excellence? (HINT: stepping stone to the "keys of success" mentioned in the lesson)
Accurate thought
What is the most dangerous pattern of thought?
Subtractive thoughts
When the conscious mind is engaged, it overrides the subconscious and communicates directly with the central nervous system .
Know this
Describe the 3 elements that make up the High Performance formula, and then explain why neglecting "potential" leads to mediocrity.
Potential is what you love what you are born with. Training is your deliberate practice. and interference is your doubt and the things that get in your way.
neglecting your potential will make you mediocre
What are the 3 biggest forms of interference? What are the 3 skills used to combat interference? Where do you see this in your own life? (You need complete answers for all 3 questions to get full credit)
Self doubt, negative intelligence, worrying about others.
Combat: Self belief
positive intelligence
control the controllable
What is the difference between positive and proactive self-talk?
Positive doesn't involve action. Positive is simply saying it's a nice day while sitting in the passenger seat of a car but proactive self-talk puts you in the driver seat. Proactive involves action. You don't just think positively you act. Action is the biggest difference.
Explain why Napoleon Hill thinks it is so important to have independent thoughts. How does this relate to conformity, as it was discussed in the lecture?
Independent thought is the only thing we can have absolute control over. We can not always control our environment but we can control our thoughts. Conformity is giving up this control. It can kill our creativity and our ability to adapt.
What happens when you dwell on your mistakes? What should you do to combat those subtractive thoughts?
When we consistently dwell on our mistakes, they become part of our subconscious. Creating subtractive patterns that will lead you into a spiral.
we must replace the mistake with a proactive solution. it isnt even worth storing the mistake in our subconscious
By drawing on examples from the Harvard Business Review article, explain how positive intelligence relates to increased productivity and creativity in life.
Burt's bees has pointing out the good work the employees were doing, rather their focusing on their weak points. They speak positively of employees success openly. This allowed them to focus on their strengths and ultimately be incredibly successful as a company.
What is the biggest difference between knowledge and intelligence?
Knowledge is like that library of information inside of your head that is present. Intelligence is the ability to not only have that information available to you but being able to recall it. Which is a skill. Intelligence is actionable knowledge.
Explain how completing the 3:1 allows you to condition your own narrative.
It helps you code the brian, and the more coding you do the better your skills become. You are then creating those postive patterns in your brain that become skills.
The accumilation of skills is the secret to success. The acquisition of skills is the key to success.
The more tangible and real your coding is the more your skill will be.
We can control our own narrative when we do the 3 to 1. 3 specific things we did great and one thing you can work on.
What is the one thing we have direct control over?
Ourselves
What are the top 10% doing that the other 90% are not?
Holding themselves accountable
What fires a neuron?
Self-talk
What happens when you enter into avoidance patterns?
You give away your locus of control
You depend on your environment for constant approval
Learned helplessness
You cannot hold yourself accountable without writing down your plan of action.
True
Please give a brief explanation of the 3 major conclusions drawn from the Mundanity of Excellence research.
Excellence is a bout quality and not just quantity. Talent is crap. It can lead you to focus on a mystic power as the reason you succeed rather than concrete actions that create success. Lastly, excellence is achieve by doing actions and making them ordinary, exact, and consistently enough that they become habitualized and those actions or skills combine together.
Why is it so important to hold ourselves accountable?
If we don't hold ourselves accountable, we will never know what we need to work on.
Take accountability for what we are doing instead of are not. I love this because we use this word almost terribly. Somebody cares and guys we care.
The accountability is the center of control.
We can only control ourselves.
Name the 5 areas of your journal and the purpose of each one.
Step 1: Objective
So you know what you intend to do and so you can keep your focus what you want.
Step 2: Plan
So you can be deliberate in your approach to accomplish the objective.
Steps 3 Strengths
Do often we don't improve because we don't see what we are doing well. We get swallowed up the negative. This is give us the motivation to move forward.
Step 4 Improvement
This is should only be one to not overwhelmed ourselves but is to still help us progress
Step 5 Evaluation
This keeps us accountable.
According to Napoleon Hill, what is the most critical thing for all high performing and successful people to have? Explain.
They must have purpose, which creates motive which is the thing that drives people and they have a dominate idea
How can you relate building mental strength to pulling weeds?
If you focus on the negatives, they will just get stronger, like pulling weeds, we need to focus on our mental skills that way they can grow, become deep rooted and drown out the negatives.
According to Colvin, what do top performers understand the significance of that average performers don't even notice? Give an example of this that's not in the book.
They understand the indicators, the "nonobvious information that's important." So the example given was how a top tennis player focuses on the body of the server not the ball.
Do you have direct control over outcome goals?
No
What is the opposite of perfectionism?
Realistic expectations
We should have goals that will....us but not.... us
Stretch us not Stress
Our self-worth is evaluated based on [blank] , not on [blank] .
Performance
Outcome
Explain the difference between task and ego. Such as how is their work ethic? What kind of goals do they set?
When you are ego oriented you are (prideful) others thought
less persistence
choose extreme goals
less work ethic
don't perform well
compared to task oriented (humble) your thoughts
persistence is higher.
more challenging tasks
work harder
perform better
What is the key skill behind grit? Explain
Persistence is the key skill behind grit, which all the researchers coming out showing that grit or cognitive control is what actually leads to success, not talent or even intelligence so much. It's persistence.
When you are persistent with a task you are stretching yourself.
Why is there anxiety when we dwell on the past?
When we start to dwell on the past, time continues to move forward, and it doesn't stop for anyone. the law of occupied space is a big supporter of this because we are not being present, and when we are not present anxiety beings to fill the space. When we don't keep pace with the present anxiety will take the space from the past and our mistakes.
Why do we need to set objectives that are in our direct control?
As mentioned in the lecture it helps us "sustain the present." This gives us the ability to adapt. For obvious reasons this is a strength a world which is constantly changing.
How does anxiety relate to control?
Anytime we feel we have control over something our anxiety will go down.
Blank and Blank is the technical term for concentration
Attention control
Focus is built off the Law of _________.
attraction