What is real genius, and how do we cultivate it in ourselves? A common dictionary definition is, “Extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity.” Some definitions refer to a high IQ as well, but that doesn’t seem to be an important component. Both intellectual power and creativity can certainly exist without a high level of intelligence, as I will explain.

Real genius, then, whether in the sciences, arts, or business, is about finding new, creative and effective ways to do things. How high a man or woman scores on some test of intelligence is not so relevant. How productive he or she is in producing new ideas is the most defining factor.

Genius Is In The Software

If we look at the brain and mind as a computer, we can see that the physical part, made up of neurons and such, is the hardware. This is the computer before we install the operating system and various programs. If it is potentially more powerful, that’s great. But it isn’t enough. In order to realize that power, to use it, we need the programs. What would the computer on your desk be worth without any software? The same is true of our brains.

The software, then, consists of our ways of thinking. These are developed starting in childhood, but they are not static. We can continue to add new “programs” throughout life, and the right ones can dramatically increase one’s creativity. This is why a less intelligent man can be a genius at something, while a man with a much higher IQ may add little in the way of new ideas, thinking or products to the world. It is all about the software.

What about these “programs?” What are they, where do you get them and how do you install them? The bad news is that they do not install as easily as programs do on your desktop computer. You have to work with them for at least several weeks to make these new ways of thinking habitual. The good news is that once they do become a habit, they work for you almost effortlessly.

A “program” might be as simple as “the exploration of creative alternatives by looking at purposes.” This is something anyone can do, but few do it systematically or habitually. Work with this enough consciously, though, and it becomes a regular part of your thinking. You look at a textbook from a school, for example, and your mind asks “What are the purposes, and what does that suggest for alternatives?”

You see that a textbook is supposed to impart knowledge to the student. The questions that naturally arise include, “Does it do that well?” and “What else might suit this purpose?” The question of effectiveness makes you wonder what you would find if ten different textbooks on the same subject matter were used to teach students, and then we tested the students to see which group learned more. That leads you to the idea for a textbook testing service (currently, textbooks are often chosen according to the preferences educators, rather than by effectiveness). The “what else” part could get you thinking about making educational material into video games.

Other creative ideas will start to come to mind as you look at the matter, at least if that is the way your brain is programmed to work. And the “program” above is just one example of many techniques for creative thinking which you can “install” in yourself. A higher IQ could be helpful, and raising yours may be possible, but that is not nearly as important to developing real genius as changing the ways in which you think.

I have taken the time today to show you a proven method of choosing the right Mentor.

Depending on what you need, this will be modified to your Career, Dreams, Goals and likewise.

For instance, you would get someone good at Teaching to help you with being a better Teacher.
You would get a person motivated to keep you motivated, and so on.

Through our lives, we need to apply self improvement in some way, it can be means of learning, education or by means of a role model or support.

Mentoring is something that any one can benefit from which is why today I share my 8 Steps.

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How To find the Right Mentor

Passing on the knowledge is part of Success, learning, teaching we have needed ourselves to develop our selves & businesss.

We understand this must cover quite a bit in the industry.

What we understand a Mentor for is once you have your training, to have that guide to keep your momentum with your business.

We Consider a Mentor & Mentored person needing these 8 Tips.

1.Think who has helped you before: Yes you know yourself, someone that has helped you before, it could be someone that did not do it intentionally but just sharing there knowledge.

Consider this when you are finding your right mentor for your business.

2. What are your goals?

Yes knowing what you are trying to achieve takes a lot of guess work out. Know what you need a mentor for.

3. Who will help you grow? Is it a person that is yoru best friend or is it someone strong in a industry, think hard, who will help you grow with your goals?

4. Knowing Personality! Yes to know yourself is going to be a great way to knowing what you need.

5. Mentors Can be for anything.
You may need different types of mentors in different capacities. One you may need for motivation but has nothing to do with online business, you just never know. One maybe

excellent at proofing your work, what type of mentor do you need?

6. Knowing your task! How can you help someone to help if you do not understand totally. Understanding your task is part of your understanding.

7. Deliberate Seeking: Yes deliberately seek someone to help, if they cannot help search again, there are many good brains & mentors available online.

8. Knowing you need a Mentor:

Really this should be step one, some of us think we do not need help. If we are not there yet or faking it, you need a mentor, some are humble enough to say I don’t know. If you have

Not got there yet, you need a mentor!

These are guidelines to help you seek and find someone to really help you.

Get a Mentor that cares & is Confidential.

We know it takes the whole 8 parts to make success!

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Read about emotional freedom technique - EFT has helped lots of people round the globe to establish proper connection with their inner power and true force.

Do you want to be a mind reader? Well, lets get the disappointing part out of the way: You won’t be able to hear the thoughts of others, and there is little evidence that anyone has ever had this kind of ability. Most of what passes as mind reading is a mix of nonsense and psychological tactics for creating the appearance of looking into the mind of another.

The good news is that there are ways to get a clue as to what is going on inside a person’s mind. Here are several techniques you can try for yourself. I will warn you though, that these can take practice, and are not always easy.

Reading Lips

Some people move their lips when deep in thought, mouthing the words they are hearing or repeating in their minds. If you train yourself in lip reading, you can pick up on their thoughts in this way. Undoubtedly many lip-reading deaf people already do this.

It is even more common for people to move their lips to the words they’re reading. Many of us do this without being aware of it. If you observe people reading books or newspapers, then, you might catch them doing this and with practice decipher the movements of their lips to know what they’re reading. What they are reading is likely related to what they are thinking at that moment (no big surprise there), so if you bring it up in conversation, it might appear that you have a way into his or her mind - and you do.

Reading Eyes

Eyes can tell us a lot about what a person is thinking because they simultaneously show us what the person is feeling and what they are looking at. Follow the eyes, and pay attention to the total facial expression, and you may gain some insight into how that man or woman feels about things. Is he fascinated by the buildings around him? Is she disgusted by the dogs in the street?

There is another way to read eyes as well. Our pupils get larger when we see something we like, or even when we imagine something desirable. You can prove this to yourself by watching your eyes in a mirror as you vividly picture your favorite person or place. Your pupils will get bigger in a matter of seconds. This is useful knowledge to have if you want a window into another’s mind.

For starters, if a man starts talking to you and his pupils get larger as he is looking at you, it is usually a clear sign of interest. This is also true if you see a man or woman looking at someone or something else. A pupil size-change can be due to a change in light (they get larger when it’s darker and smaller when it is brighter), but if you can rule that out, watching for this is a way to see what interests people, and who they like to look at.

More than that, you can suggest an image to a person, to see what happens with his or her pupils. Be vivid in your description. Does an imagined trip to a night club elicit a quick enlarging of her pupils while your description of your favorite mountain stream does nothing? You might want to suggest a trip to the club or find a woman who likes mountains.

The Easiest Way To Be A Mind Reader

Do you have a friend who is always talking about money problems? Then you have a clue as to what he is thinking. The easiest way to be a mind reader is to be aware of the things that your friends and acquaintances are repeatedly saying. What we say comes from what we think, and what we think is usually repeated again and again.

We all advertise our thoughts on our faces, in what we read, what we do and what we say. Pay attention and you’ll soon start seeing the clues.

Concentration and staying focused are possibly the most difficult things to control. You are inundated daily with so many distractions. Stop wasting valuable time reading mail designed to sell you and pull you off track, focus on yoru goals and you will get there. In no time at all one or two hours have drifted by and are gone forever.

Time goes by at a great pace even though the second hand appears to be going slowly the days fly by, even with written goals time can still be your worst enemy.

There is nothing wrong with enthusiasm, but unless you write your goal out fully you will neverget through the rough periods. Then life gets in the way. We all suffer from family ailments and emergency but the truly focused professional can handle them and use them to make great strides in their quest for success.

Dont they just give you a great excuse as to why you didn’t do this or that to bring your goals to completion? If only that hadn’t happened, if only I had more time. Putting your goals on paper is great, putting that piece of paper somewhere safe is not, you must read your goals at least twice a day.

I will now let you into a secret, now I am hoping you will not broadcast this to everyone - Life gets in the way  but the more successful individuals have developed techniques for keeping their focus on the goal DESPITE what is happening around them.

I had the experience last week of watching a Premiership Footballer in the UK playing with all the positive determination of a true professional, his fans were not aware that he had been woken at 2:00am that morning to learn of the sudden death of his younger brother in a car accident. Now that is focus.

On a lesser scale watch any true professional who can hold their concentration despite what may be happening around them. I well remember when I was learning to play golf. The guy I played with, played off scratch {if you do not play golf - that means he was good!}, as I started my back swing he would cough or noisily open a bag of crisps, carefully designed to put me off - well yes - but he also taught me to ignore what was happening around me and concentrate on my swing. So that my subconscious took over when I needed inspiration in negative circumstances.

Watch your son or daughter play a computer game and see the powerful force of concentration on their faces as they destroy the baddies. My son even at 19 yrs of age, when home from university, doesn’t hear a vacuum cleaner or me come into his room when his concentration, set on his goal of saving the earth, is successful.

Listen to this - now look at your goals. Is your journey one of successful completion or do you drift from thing to thing, even to the extent that you do not make the goal at all!

There is a supreme secret in goal planning that will guarantee that you never drift off course, so that you will always have time to work on your goal achievement each and every day to accomplish all you commit to achieve. It is your choice, you are ready for success aren’t you?

When you know why you drift you will be able to steer a straight line toward your objective? The clue to achievement of all your goals is on this page. As Napoleon Hill said in his wonderful work; ‘Think and Grow Rich’, the secret to wealth is within the pages. He did not tell you what the secret was as he wanted you to discover it for yourself, that is a positive powerful form of leadership.

The secret to goal achievement is in this article, but you have to find it.

For when you do you will achieve everything you want in life.

Because of the pressures of daily living you may not have time to commit  to do everything you WANT to do, but with focus you will have plenty of time to do everything you NEED to do. Making a decision to accomplish your goal is the major part of the goal setting formula, have you done it yet. And once you know the SECRET you will have focus and power to achieve what you may have thought was impossible.

Do it now! That saying can affect every phase of your life. concentration is the key to success. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, will never be retrieved.

You may think you’re not susceptible to subliminal techniques, but the research says that virtually all of us are. And of all the various techniques out there, one of the most common is a simple trick called “anchoring.” Here is a look at how it is used on you.

Suppose I were to ask you and a room full of others to make your best guesses as to when Thomas Aquinas was born. If you didn’t have any idea other than “sometime in the middle ages,” the average guess might be the year 1200. But what if I first announced, “Claudius Ptolemy was born in the year 85,” and then asked when Aquinas was born? Would that change anything? It seems that it shouldn’t, since it is irrelevant. But it almost certainly would change the guesses.

They would be much earlier, perhaps around the year 800. You and the others might not be aware that the first statement is affecting your estimates. You also probably wouldn’t suspect that subliminal techniques were being used on you, in this case a simple trick called “anchoring.”

Anchoring As A Subliminal Technique

Researchers actually do tests like this, and consistently get the same effect. Anchoring, in the terminology of behavioral economics, is our tendency to give weight to whatever facts or figures are introduced - regardless of their relevance - if we have insufficient information. Obviously, if you knew the date of birth you would not be swayed by this technique. However, “insufficient information” is a common occurrence in life, isn’t it? That’s why this subliminal trick works.

As you might guess, since the term is used by researchers in the field of behavioral economics, that the trick is used in financial matters. It is. In fact, the simplest example is one you’ll recognize immediately. Before you can form an opinion about the value of a product being sold on late night television, the announcer says something like “This normally sells for $189, but order right now and it’s yours for only $59.”

There may or may not be evidence provided as to why it is worth $189. The truth is that just saying it will increase the perceived value in listener’s minds. If you had to previously place a value on it, you might have said just $19 - if you had nothing for an “anchor.” But now that you have heard it is worth $189, it seems like a great deal at $59.

This trick is used in negotiations all the time. For example, you might think your house is worth the $285,000 you’re asking, but there is almost always insufficient information to be certain. So when a buyer offers $239,000, you say no, but you’re suddenly even less certain about the value. Then when the first buyer’s secret partner later makes an offer of $260,000, it seems reasonable. The only offer you’ve had was $239,000, and with that as an anchor, you may be happy to get $260,000, so you agree. You may never know that with time the house would have sold for $20,000 more.

Employers can use subliminal techniques like this too. For example, a furniture store owner might mention to the sales people how much they make if they sell 70 items per month. If the employees have no idea what the monthly average is for the industry, they’ll probably now guess that 70 is normal. They’ll work to achieve that, not knowing that selling 40 pieces of furniture monthly is closer to the average.

Besides protecting yourself, there is another reason to learn about these subliminal techniques: You can use them on yourself. If you want to write, for example, get to know prolific writers. If you know a writer who writes forty pages daily, this will affect what you believe and therefore do, versus knowing one who writes just five pages daily. Though you may not write that much yourself, you have an “anchor” that will probably encourage you to do more than you would have.

There are many creative problem solving techniques, and each will lead you to different kinds of solutions. One of the simplest, though, is the “add, subtract and change” technique. What follows is a basic explanation of how to use it to generate more creative solutions.

Add

Whatever you are working on, whether a scientific experiment, a business concept, or a personal issue with family, this technique can help. It starts with the simple question, “What can I add to this?” Open your mind up in answering this. If designing a new vehicle for people who love the outdoors, it’s easy to imagine things to add; a tent platform on the roof, a skylight for star viewing, windows with screens, etc.

With other problems you will have to think more widely. For example, if you are trying to find a way to travel to India, you may not immediately think of things to “add” to the problem. Money does come to mind, though, and something as seemingly meaningless as “a group of people” might trigger the idea to go free as a guide, or to get a reduced fare for selling a tour to friends. Let a few random thoughts enter here, and see how adding this or that might lead to a new solution.

Subtract

The second step of this creative problem solving technique is also very easy if you are just working on product innovation and invention. What can you take away from a television? How about half of the buttons on the remote, or half the weight? Look at what is there and ask what would happen if you subtracted it (or part of it). The screen? You might have a television receiver that displays through the user’s computer screen.

With a business problem, like how to gain more repeat customers for your restaurant, you have to think more broadly. What if you subtract payment? Hmm… Customers order from a “subscribers menu,” which includes the fast meal at a set price, billed monthly. They don’t have wait for the bill. Subtract the menu? Perhaps for a discount customers would prepay for tokens good for specific meals, to be redeemed anytime. They just hand a token to the host when they walk in, and get their meal fast. Once they prepay, they have to come to your restaurant to redeem the token, thus guaranteeing repeat business.

Change

This is the fun step, where you ask what you can change about the problem or the current situation. If you are looking for a way to increase the value of your home before selling it, you ask what you can change about the home, the way you advertise it, the terms of the sale, and anything else you can think of. But to make your problem solving more creative, get a bit crazy in your questions. For example, ask, “What can I change about the buyer?” This may seem silly at first, but it also might suggest targeting a market with buyers who are willing to pay a bit more.

Look for all the things that might be changed, and all the ways you might change them. As with all problem solving techniques, the idea is to generate as many different ideas as possible. Only afterwards do you look at them more critically to find the good ones.

For example, John had a neighbor with too much junk in his yard. It was lowering the value of his home, and he planned to move in a year or so. He asked what he could change about his approach, where he lived, where the neighbor lived, the junk itself, the view, and so on. Asking about changing where the neighbor lived was not so silly as it first seemed. As it turns out, he was a renter, and wanted to move, but was short on cash. John loaned him a few hundred dollars, figuring that even if he was never repaid he would gain ten times that on the increased sale’s price of his own home. That’s a creative solution.

What can I add? What can I subtract? What can I change? Just ask these three questions and be open minded in answering them. That is the basis of this simple problem solving technique.