What if I told you I have a formula that can boost your performance, make your productivity levels go up, and give you mental toughness?
That’s what The Educator at School Your Brain developed:
a simple formula that provides practical steps for personal achievement.
School Your Brain is led by The Educator Ramón Torres, who is certified in Educational Leadership and is obsessed with anything related to motivation.
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Ramón really struggled to get motivated to do things, even though he really wanted to be successful.
He couldn’t understand the mismatch.
It turns out, all he needed was a simple formula for success that he developed over years of intensive and obsessive research.
Ramón discovered the formula because he was looking to answer one question:
What are successful people doing that makes them so darn successful?
Through his experimentation and analysis, he came up with the following simple formula:
Success = Attitude + Action, where Attitude is your thoughts and Action is your strategy.
Success = Attitude + Action
This formula is backed by the teachings of many great motivational leaders, including Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, James Allen, and Napolean Hill.
The formula is also backed by neuroscience, psychology, and, of course, Ramón’s practical experience.
Ramón felt the need to create the formula because he was tired of reading inspirational quotes and watching motivational videos that left him excited to get started but confused about how to start.
For example, look at this quote:
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started. ”
Even though his words are accurate, what the heck can you do with that wisdom?
There’s nothing practical about it.
Ramón knows that he wants to get ahead.
Ramón knows that he needs to get started.
But what Ramón doesn’t know is how to get motivated to get started.
And that's where inspirational quotes and motivational videos stop helping.
They don't show you the Actions and Attitude you need to develop to be able to get started on being successful.
Ramón felt like they gave him a false sense of hope.
That’s why Ramón transformed his research into easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
Think of it like having a personal coach in the back of your pocket who is always there to eliminate your frustration and help you reach your goals.
The simple formula, Success = Attitude + Action, is the heart of School Your Brain, and it will teach you tactics and strategies to arm your mind and body for success.
Let’s consider the “Attitude” part of the formula, which pertains to your thoughts.
Did you know that your thoughts affect your success?
According to Carol Dweck, who is a psychology professor at Stanford, there are two types of mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
A fixed mindset destroys your success while a growth mindset fuels it.
Take a look at the following questions to determine your mindset:
Do you avoid challenges OR embrace them?
Do you give up easily OR never give up?
Do you see effort as pointless OR the path to mastery?
Do you ignore criticism OR learn from it?
Do you feel threatened when other people are successful OR find lessons and inspiration?
Do you agree with most of the underlined statements on the left or the right?
The ones on the left represent a fixed mindset, and the ones on the right, indicate a growth mindset.
A growth mindset is necessary for success.
If you have a fixed mindset, don’t worry. It’s not permanent.
You just need to learn how to think differently.
You may want to write the following information down:
One way to embrace a growth mindset is by avoiding the All or Nothing Attitude.
The All or Nothing Attitude is, for example, believing that you are either smart or dumb.
I see it all the time with my students (if you didn’t already know, I work full time as an educator).
Why is it bad to think you are smart?
Because when you consider yourself to be smart, you are highly likely to avoid working on harder problems.
The reason why is because you'll want to appear to be smart, and, as a consequence, you will probably stick to problems you know you can solve—because it will make you look smart.
And if a problem looks really challenging, you'll likely avoid working on it because you will look dumb if you can’t solve it.
That is the problem with the All or Nothing Attitude.
Instead, you must focus on the Attitude that really counts: effort.
Think about it.
You can always put in effort into easy problems.
You can always put in effort into hard problems.
Even if you don’t solve the problem, you still put in the effort.
Too often, I’ll see a student solve a problem and say, “I’m smart!”
But that thinking is only conditioning you to believe that you are dumb if you can’t solve a problem.
Do you see the issue with that?
It’s much better to say, “That problem didn’t require much effort.”
Why?
Because the next time you see a hard problem, you will think, “This problem looks like it’s going to take A LOT of effort” rather than, “I’m not doing this problem because it looks too hard and I don’t want to look stupid if I can’t solve it.”
Keep in mind that you will not likely say these things out loud, it merely represents what your intuitive response is going to be.
Remember, looking stupid is painful, and your brain wants to avoid pain at all costs.
So, if you want to be more successful, remember:
“Ditch the All or Nothing Attitude.”
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I’m Ramón Torres, The Educator at School Your Brain.