03.08.08
My Greatest Teacher Revealed
One Day is a very special day for me.
It’s the 84th birthday of perhaps the greatest teacher I have ever known.
The one person who influenced my mind and taught me things about learning that truly enabled me to have the persistence and the ways of thinking that let me make the breakthroughs I’ve discovered at taught you all.
Now, in my life, I’ve had the opportunity and good luck to have many great teachers.
Among them, Richard Bandler, the founder, creator and father of NLP.
My yoga teacher, Mark Whitwell.
Gary Halbert, the single most important influence on my style as a copywriter.
Most recently, Matt Furey, who is an amazing marketer and a true fitness “guru”.
But far and away, the one person who taught me most about learning, and learning to teach myself, is celebrating her 84th birthday today.
That person is, Sylvia, my most beloved and brilliant mother.
Yes, even seduction gurus love their mothers.(Or at least I HOPE the other seduction “gurus” love theirs, but who knows?)
But in my Mom’s case, she taught me amazing lessons about learning.
First of all, she taught me that I could learn to learn anything.
As a kid, if I had a question about something, her answer was always, “Why don’t you look it up?” Then she would dramatically gesture to the set of Encyclopedias that filled an entire shelf of the wall to wall bookcase that was in my parents’ bedroom.
The second thing she taught me, by example, was to simply and honestly say “I don’t know” when she didn’t know the answer to something.
Rather than fake like she knew, she made it ok by example to say, “I don’t know. Why don’t YOU find out?”
These are powerful permissions to give a child, indeed to give anyone, and I hope you apply that lesson to what you do with your own mind.
The third thing she taught me was, “There is always an answer somewhere. If you don’t know it yet, find someone who does. If they don’t know, then YOU go find the answer. But don’t quit
looking and don’t give up. You are smart enough to learn and to figure out anything.”
Now, the beauty is, she didn’t always teach this directly. She’d do it by example(as I do with you guys, as a teacher) or by telling stories(as I do with you guys) and using metaphors(as I
do with you guys).
Yep. After 18 years of studying NLP, mythology, magic, etc., my basic teaching(and learning) skills…
Comes Down To What I Learned From Mom!
Finally, I will tell you that one of the coolest things she ever said, that I think, even back as a 7 year old boy, set a course for me was this:
One day, I was back-talking her and sassing her like crazy.(Can you believe that, contrary to my sweet, agreeable, ADULT personality, that as a kid, I was a sarcastic, nasty little sh*t?).
Mom just shook her finger at me and said, “Kid, if you don’t knock it off, one day you will grow up to be an iconoclast”.
I looked at her, and as I’m sure she guessed I would, said, “What’s that?”
She smiled as if peering into a future that would one day catch up to me and said, “That’s someone who goes around kicking down other people’s sacred idols!”
“Wow, ” I thought to myself. “That’s totally what I want to be”.
And 40 years later, here I am!
If you’ve ever learned anything of value to me, then please join me as I say,
HAPPY F’***NG BIRTHDAY, MOM!
Piece and peace,
P.S. Just so you know, my Mom AND Dad(indeed my whole family) knows what I do for a living and heartily approves. In fact, my 17 year old nephew, Gideon,and his 15 year old brother, Gabe, are BOTH studying their Speed Seduction® Home Courses(with their Mom’s permission of course!).
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