Practice This

Reading another good book – Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain by Ron Hale-Evans. In this post I’m sharing a personal story of how the mind tricks similar to those described in the book helped me to build trust

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and credibility when I was teaching Web Development classes during the early 2000′s.

Hello Students!

If you teach classes of any kind you must know how hard it is – much harder than it might look. Beside remembering the material and keeping the pace and flow, one needs to control the class and its attention level. As a student I know the best teachers are those who establish authority first – either through power or credibility.

When I was hired to teach Web Development I had zero power and even less credibility. I needed to control a class of 30 students with high energy and even higher expectations. Technically I was OK, but how could I control them?

The answer came from a world record holder for remembering stuff (how ironic, I cannot remember his name…). He was in town and I attended the session. As an appetizer the guy demonstrated how he can remember tens of words written on white board after staring at it for only a few seconds. The audience was completely amazed. Then he said that by the end of the session everyone in the room would do just the same. The audience was flipping on the floor laughing at the joke.

…By the end of the session about a hundred folks were doing the very same trick the guy showed in the beginning. He delivered on his initial promise.

How?

The trick is simple, similar to the one described in the book. And it can be found online here. Free. Look at Remember Ten Things To Bring and Visit The Hotel Dominic.

From Zero To Hero Using Mind Hacks

I like putting things into practice. I decided to impress my students by remembering their names immediately upon meeting them. I was hoping that would create wow! effect and add credibility.

I arrived at the new class and as usual it was very loud. It took me awhile to get the students’ attention. Then I asked each student to present himself, all 30 of them. While they were introducing themselves I was creating mental images. When the last of them finished I had a series of episodes in my head. I simply replayed them, pointing to each student and calling his name. The class was astonished…

I was never interrupted when teaching my materials. The rest of the class went almost too smoothly.

I earned my credibility using a simple mind hacks. You can do the same thing.

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

Practice This – Get Results

• Train your mind to remember more – avoid embarrassments when with customers. Remember important information like names, goals, critical past and future events.
• Do not memorize mechanical stuff, like checklists – remember to write it down and have it handy.

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