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The Supreme Test Of History (Success)

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“Make it so!”

This popular catch phrase from the second generation Star Trek series encapsulates a key philosophy of living: do what needs doing.

There is an attitude to life which says “Do your best!” Not good enough! You don’t stop at doing your best: you do whatever needs to be done.

RULE: THE ONLY TRUE MEASURE OF COMPETENCE AND SUCCESS IS SIMPLY: DID THE TASK COMPLETE, YES OR NO?

Forget the excuses, obfuscations, problems. The supreme test of personal competence is simply the answer to the question: did you do the action you had to do?

We had a look in an earlier section at the concept of excuses, justifications and Whys. Excuses and justifications are get-outs. They answer nothing; they promote and reinforce failure. Shun these imposters.

A why is a real reason — but only if it leads to a resolution of what was non-optimum. Otherwise it remains merely an excuse. We especially shun that “why” of Fate; if it is not under your control, it isn’t a legitimate reason for anything.

We come back to the supreme test: just DID IT or DIDN’T IT happen?

Task-Oriented vs. People Oriented

You will hear debate sometimes over individuals who are supposed to be “task-oriented” and those who are “people-oriented”. Task-oriented people are those who judge by the result, whether or not it happened. The task rules the state of play. People-oriented individuals believe they put people first and the task comes second.

It isn’t nearly as clear cut as this. Continue reading →

10 Rules Of Healing Logic – 2

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Thanks a lot for your input from article 1:

It was great to have so much feedback and help, asking for “strong logic”, rule #10. It’s a subject that fascinates me and excited strong emotions, the way poetry can do. In fact there is a kind of poetry in sweet logic, don’t you think?

I see thousands of you were on the case and over a hundred good ideas were posted.

The commonest suggestion was “If it ain’t busted, don’t fix it”. Certainly basic logic there. But that’s my #1 in disguise. If something is working, do more of it. Thing is, the tendency that people have is to change things, even if it’s working. So you lose the good; maybe it stops working altogether.

I have written elsewhere that everyone has taken the first step to millionaire. You sold something, right? Well, if you had kept on and on and on doing just that, you could have processed $millions. But you stopped!

It’s sort of a joke; but it sort of isn’t either! Continue reading →

Keep it Simple Stupid! 10 Rules of Healing Logic.

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How simple and basic can success strategies get? I already posted my own look at a success formula. But for decades I’ve been looking at REALLY SIMPLE, REALLY STUPID logic and how people violate it, or ignore it.

Good thought structures and even half decent logic has the power to heal and transform. I know that. Too bad that most people don’t get it and choose magic and fairy talk, over cool reason!

Magical laws and stuff didn’t get us down from the trees and building TVs, computers, cars and rocket ships! Only what Samuel Firestone called “hard thinking”, as opposed to what I call “fluffy pink thoughts” of the New Agers.

I’m still waiting for #10 on my list of 10 Silly Basics of Reason. See if you can point me towards it, with ideas of your own.

This is absolute down low and dirty bottom-rung undercut LOGIC!

This is my Nine-So-Far Basics of Reason. Don’t swallow them all at once, or you’ll get indigestion!

  1. If it works, keep doing it!
  2. If it doesn’t work, stop doing it!
  3. Whenever something good happens, there is ALWAYS a reason for it. Find the reason and strengthen it.
  4. Whenever something bad happens, there is ALWAYS a reason. Find the reason and eliminate it.
  5. What works, works! If it’s worked before, it’ll likely work again!
  6. Life can change in an INSTANT. All it takes is a decision.
  7. If you don’t know, find out!
  8. Communicate. Make yourself known. If you don’t, nobody will know you are there.
  9. If it works one day, it will work ANY day.
  10. ???

That 10th on the list is out there, just waiting for me to grab it, for a perfect 10 out of 10!

#9, I got from my patients and medical expertise: If you can feel well, with no symptoms, on any one day, you can feel well every day! There is, by definition, nothing wrong, nothing busted, nothing missing, no genes, nothing PERMANENT, if you can have even just one day of good health! Never settle for less…

Well of course it applies to everything, not just health, otherwise I wouldn’t bring it up here. If you can sell a $million of widgets one day, you can sell a million every day! Get to work and see that you do! If you can paint a masterpiece one day, you can do it over and over.If you can write a page, you can write a novel. Get the idea?

Your comments are welcome.

UPDATE, Oct 27th:

To see what finally won, you need to read the second blog on this:

https://www.supernoetics.com/10-rules-of-healing-logic-2/

 

Is There Really A Mozart Effect?

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Some scientists claim there isn’t; tests show no effect. Well, that doesn’t prove something doesn’t exist. It might only prove you designed a crappy experiment.

Plenty of robust studies show there is indeed an effect and it’s a very good one.

The “Mozart Effect”, if you don’t know, is the supposition that playing nice music, with the right frequencies buried in it, is very stimulating to a child’s brain and can enhance growth and learning. Seems almost common sense, doesn’t it. Not to some people!

I’m looking at a copy of the book by Don Campbell. Per the usual American hubris (conceit), he states that all this was given impetus and cred by researches of Frances H Rauscher PhD, at Center for Neurobiology of Learning in Irvine, California.

These Americans are often decades behind the rest of us and believe they invented everything. Or if they didn’t, then it’s not worth knowing anyway.

The truth is all this was discovered starting in the 1950s in France, with the work of Alfred Tomatis MD. He’s been called the Einstein of Sound and the Sherlock Holmes of sonic detection. Tomatis was the developer of the “electronic ear” concept.

His biggest discovery was not the Mozart Effect but a physiological curiosity, which is that the voice does not contain frequencies which the ear cannot hear. If the ear does not pick up the sound, that sound will be missing from the quality of the voice. Continue reading →

A Successful Success Formula

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The key to healing in any context is the ability to make changes. If you can’t change the way things are, you’re stuck with something you don’t want. To heal disease, heal finances, heal work, relationships, whatever you are struggling with in life, you need to change.

Yet change is one of the most feared and resisted aspects of living—ask any coach or psychologist. Even when a person says they consciously want change, often the resistance it at a deeper level.

I’ve put together a few thoughts on change which I hope will be enlightening and helpful.

Working to a success formula

It is possible to structure the need for change in one’s life into a sequence of events that might be called a “Successful Change Formula”.

Aristotle had one; he said that there are three basic steps that you must take to get what you want out of life:

1. Understand that you can achieve success

2. Define what success represents, for you

3. Organise your life around its achievement by making the necessary changes

Don’t under-estimate the value of these simple steps because here you have the ultimate success formula. It is the secret that everyone who has ever been successful, in any field of endeavour, has used.

Properly adhered to, this will ensure far more efficacious actions than most people usually engage in.

However, I’d like to suggest something a little broader and more modern. Success is seen in terms of decisive change. Obviously, if you haven’t got what you really want, you need to change something. But what? It is vital to recognize accurately what it is that holds you back. Then remedy it. Dealing with the wrong problem will lead to failure. So this is pretty important stuff.

The formula given here will help you. All success and improvement can be mapped in these terms, whether the individual has consciously applied them or not. Obviously, knowing and willing application of its steps will bring a far higher success rate than mere unknowing and random encounters with one or two of the steps. Continue reading →

Was Cyril Burt Correct After All?

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Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist who made contributions to educational psychology and statistics.

Burt is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ and his theories that the “best people” gave rise to the “best” children (cleverest). He created a storm

Remember this was in the days of sniveling socialism, when everybody HAD to equal everybody else and it was not PC to even suggest people from poorer families might not actually be that smart.

In 1942, Burt was elected President of the British Psychological Society and in 1946 became the first British psychologist to be knighted for his contributions to psychological testing and, ironically, for making educational opportunities more widely available, despite his critics.

Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance and intelligence came into disrepute after evidence supposedly emerged indicating he had falsified research data. Some scholars have asserted that Burt did not commit intentional fraud.

More importantly, modern science is starting to back what he said. There was no fraud by Burt; only his critics lied and deliberately tarnished his reputation.

New research indicates that Burt was in fact correct. Up to half of human intelligence can be explained by genetics. There isn’t some big “smart gene” but it relies on the expression of quite a number of genes.

We needn’t go into the biology here. The point is that the smart set really are likely to have smart kids and this truth matters more than socialist agendas.

The researchers found that approximately half of individual differences in intelligence can be explained by genetics and across a great variety of genes. In fact, as the lead researcher explained, this is likely to be an UNDER-estimate, since they could only detect variation that is correlated with common DNA markers.

[SOURCE: Aug. 12, 2011, Molecular Psychiatry]