[Neurons] 2012 Meta Reflections #49

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2012  #49

Sept. 27, 2012

Book Review: Raising Talent

 

 

FAST TRACKING HIGH PERFORMANCE

 

 

Raising Talent: How to Fast-Track Potential Into Performance. (2012).  Tim
Goodenough with Michael Cooper, Penguin Books, South Africa.

 

 

This books follows up on Tim and Michael's first book, In the Zone With
South Africa's Sports Heroes and focuses on developing sports potential in
children and so it is written to parents and coaches about how to raise
talent.  This book also, like the first, is a thoroughly Neuro-Semantic book
that contains many of the APG (Accessing Personal Genius) patterns within
it.  In it the authors speak about Neuro-Semantics and about Meta-Coaching
as a methodology for fast tracking potential.  So if the subject of fast
tracking potential is important to you- here are two books you really need
to get.

 

In developing their themes the authors quote many authors and researchers
including K. Anders Ericsson about the 10,000 rule and the importance of
"deliberate practice."  They focus on meaning and adding rich meaning to
performance, they use the Self-Actualization quadrants as one of their
models, and they have a fascinating discussion of the issue of "choking" up
before a performance (pp. 48-51).  I really like the Gratitude Pattern that
they developed (p. 64) as a way to link strong gratitude to your mental
moves.  In that way "you will be more insulated against negativity and more
likely to lock in a high performance mood." (p. 64)

 

Then with the asking of "why questions" regarding your goals and objectives,
they invented a Lightning Rod Movie Technique (p. 67ff).  And what is the
design of the lightning rod technique?  To trigger the very limiting beliefs
that are holding you back which are connected with your mental movie of some
outcome that you desire.  They even present seven criteria for asking such
unique questions.

 

Then there is the Meta Kolb Model which Tim had been working on for several
years.  Here the Kolb Model for adult learning is taken and expanded (p.
142ff).

 

Great quotes from the book:

"If you really want your child to be the best version of him or herself that
they can be, the first place to start is with you.  Your child's mental
model of the world will reflect many of your strengths and weaknesses; the
more you work on yourself, the less re-work they will need to do later." (p.
3)

 

"The ability to win the 'talent race' requires both an inner game (mindset)
and outer game (performance).  Both are critical to maximise potential- to
run your best race.  In this book we will cover the what, how, when, and why
to develop both the inner and outer game." (p. 7)

 

"This mindset (i.e., of success) is characterised by the belief that no
ability, skill or aptitude is ever fixed in stone- it can be developed,
grown and fine-tuned..." (p. 14)

 

"Part of a Meta-Coach's job is to help a client to find a leverage point, or
the top-most (cluster CEO) meaning that they want to shift, either by
removing, reframing (giving it new meaning), out framing (making another
meaning superior to the existing meaning, or using any other of many
different methods to enable positive healthy change." (p. 79)

 

"A great mindset is not every effective without action- meaning needs to
partner with performance/competence to get high performance." (p. 97)

 

As a book about performance - fast tracking potential into high performance,
this book is an excellent follow up on my book, Achieving Peak Performance
(2005) as it adds additional patterns and processes, and applies it
specifically to children, parenting, and coaching. 

 

There is a lot more in the book and you can find out more about it by going
to -

 <http://www.raisingtalentthebook.com/> www.raisingtalentthebook.com




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

                Neuro-Semantics International

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

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