"How to Use the Power of Words to Your Benefit" - Part IIWritten by Colin Dunbar
A friend of mine read article, How to Use Power of Words to Your Benefit, and dryly made comment, "So what?" At first it didn't concern me, but a few days later I began thinking about his comment. I had obviously not made point clear, and therefore I decided to expand on this concept. And that is what you are reading here. Words, as such, have no value apart from communicating an idea, belief, or instruction to our readers. But, combine words with mental capacity only we humans have, and power of words become awesome. Ok, what am I on about here? In my first article, I briefly touched on concept of spaced repetition. This is such a powerful and useful technique that I will expand on it here. I came across spaced repetition early in high school, and used it throughout my high school career. It works like this: you read something (for not more than 45 minutes), then you take a break, with something totally unrelated; then you return and re-read same material. You alternate this with reading different material, and you will be amazed at what your retention level is. I never studied for a single exam throughout high school! I only used spaced repetition. Back to power of words, and using spaced repetition. It is fair to say that we do not like to be negative, or feel depressed. By taking something as simple as a quote, we can improve our mental state, and thus our attitude. Reading this with spaced repetition, it becomes ingrained in our memory, and when situation warrants it, we practically automatically retrieve it from memory.
| | The Biggest Fallacy in the WorldWritten by Colin Dunbar
If it is your goal to accumulate wealth, believing this fallacy will hinder your progress to no end. This is a gross fallacy that stifles many to a life of failure, and misery. If your goal is to make money, but you believe this fallacy, it will be extremely difficult. The goal setting theory of motivation means that you need to be positive - and realistic - to be able to reach your goal, especially if that goal is to make money. How many times do we hear that "money makes money." Money can make money just as easily as Ferrari can win Grand Prix without Schumaker in driver's seat. "Ferrari is Grand Prix world champion." Do we say that? "Microsoft invented Windows." Do we say that? Or do we say, "Schumaker is world champion." And "Gates invented Windows."? Of course we give credit to person, or people. And that's because that is reality. Money is an innate, lifeless thing. To illustrate... Let's say we want to make our money grow, then we place a $100 note in a tin and bury it, and a year later we return and dig it up. How much money will there be? Only our $100 note we placed in tin. There is no way, on God's green earth that there can be one cent more than original $100. People make money! And people lose money! Certainly, money can earn interest, but person (or rather person's intelligence) is required to invest money to earn that interest. In this regard, a person can make a bad investment, and not earn as much interest, or can lose money.
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