Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Negative Conditioning

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Negative Conditioning

I have a friend who I consider to be one of the best and most naturally talented writers I've ever read, who makes his living almost exclusively from his writing abilities. He's an excellent all round communicator. I was amazed to recently learn that for much of his life he believed he was a hopeless writer and would go out of his way to avoid writing anything. It seems that at an early age he was told by a teacher that his writing was terrible. Although he now thinks the teacher actually meant the quality of his handwriting rather than the content or his writing ability, this was enough for him to believe he couldn't write and subsequently just got by at school and avoided writing for many years.

Years later he was obliged to write a report at work. Despite his initial fears and much procrastination, he found that when we finally started, he not only enjoyed it, but found it came quite easily. His boss was also impressed with the end result, finding it much better than the average dry report he was usually presented with. This did wonders for my friend's confidence and he kept on writing. He's now written several successful books and publishes a regular newsletter to thousands of subscribers using a long dormant natural talent he was convinced he didn't have.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

'To succeed, we must first believe that we can.' – Michael Korda

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