Cannot Fail
When you were young, you conquered an astonishing number of obstacles. If you think that learning to walk was a piece of cake, you have got a pretty pitiful memory. Hundreds and hundreds of failures... yet never once did you stop trying... from the smells in the kitchen to sounds outside, you had plenty of reason to learn to walk. You learned how to speak. Now that is really something: I'm not aware of any other creature on this planet that can do so. You learned hundreds and hundreds of complicated tasks, from tying shoelaces, to addressing men as "Mister" and ladies as "Ma'am," to running, climbing, using a pair of scissors. You know, my dog is smart, but I've never seen him lick a stamp and stick it on an envelope, or ride a bicycle, or make change of a ten. The more you conquered, the more you believed you could conquer, and by the time you were four or five, your brain was absorbing new facts and faces and figures and colors and sentence structures at a rate it would only keep up for a couple of more years. Some recent info sheds a bit of light on why we stop believing. Graduate psychology students at the University of Iowa individually followed hundreds of young children, carrying little click-counters. For every instance of the child hearing encouraging words and comments, there were just over fourteen negative comments! In a typical day, the child would hear an average of 32 positive comments, and an average of, get this, four hundred and twenty negative comments!! "NO!" "DON'T GO IN THERE!" "WHAT ARE YOU, STUPID?!" "DON'T DO THAT... DO YOU WANT TO GROW UP AN IDIOT LIKE YOUR FATHER?" What a shocker! No wonder we stop believing. Hey, an eight-year old boy receives about one-seventh the number of hugs that an eight-year old girl receives. Do you think it's a coincidence that an eight-year old boy is seven times more likely to have behavioral "problems?" Hey, I don't make up these numbers, I just observe & report them. It's not as simple as the "rah-rah-you-can-do-it" rationale. Shortcuts are easy, and belief is just one step of the way.. What we are looking at here are about 75 of the world's best one thousand shortcuts. If you'd like another 75, you have two choices. Buy my next book, or simply follow what's in this book and I'll be glad to see you a free copy. You may have noticed already that the printing styles used in this book are different from what you're accustomed to. You may ask how in the world an unpublished author got to publish a book at far greater expense than is the norm. How did he get them to agree? Simple: I applied some of the magical shortcuts; just as you can, and should, within the next few days. One unassailable fact remains: using the high-powered, very magical shortcuts that are identical to the steps used by masters and millionaires, champions and billionaires, it is impossible to fail. |
