Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Awaken Your Genius with Dan Smith – 30 June in Shanghai

Dan Smith
Dan Smith

After the success of the session last week, we’re doing it again. Dan Smith will guide you through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Accelerated Learning and Cognitive Psychology, to present some important findings from The Genius Project. Learn to develop your abilities, skills, gifts and talents, to expand your personal success and experience of joy and fulfillment.

Awaken Your Genius – Tuesday, 30 June – from 7pm – 150RMB

We will be at Andrew James Art, a beautiful gallery at 39 Maoming Road North, about 10 minutes walk from either Nanjing West (Line 2) or Shanxi South (Line 1).

Have you ever met someone outstanding? Someone that was not just competent, not just good at what they did, not even “excellent” – but someone who stood out as being exceptional?

Register your place, at here or on Facebook.

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What does a creative person do?

Creative people do things differently. But what specifically? We mostly agree that creative people are willing to act unconventionally, that they are inquisitive, and that they are intuitive. But aren’t creative artists different from creative business people?

There are differences between domains. Here are some extra characteristics that Sternberg (1985) found to be important in the following domains:

Art: Imagination, Originality, Risk-taking

Business: Coming up with and exploring new ideas

Philosophy: Play and classifying new ideas

Physics: See order amid chaos, Inventiveness, Problem solving

These are really quite different, aren’t they! So what are you great at? How can you develop your unique skills?

Dan Smith introduces Awaken Your Genius, 23 June in Shanghai

Dan Smith
Dan Smith

In this session, China NLP Chairman Dan Smith will guide you through NLP, Accelerated Learning and Cognitive Psychology, to present some important findings from The Genius Project. Learn to develop your abilities, skills, gifts and talents, to expand your personal success and experience of joy and fulfilment.

Awaken Your Genius – Tuesday, 23 June – from 7pm – 100RMB

We will be in a central Shanghai location and will send you the details when you let us know you’re coming.

Have you ever met someone outstanding? Someone that was not just competent, not just good at what they did, not even “excellent” – but someone who stood out as being exceptional?

Register your place, at www.ChinaNLP.org or on Facebook.

Dan Smith did.
Back in 1994, he noticed that there is a difference between someone who works really hard to get mediocre results and someone who effortlessly achieves excellence. And, surrounded by some of the most brilliant minds, he started to ask, “What is the difference?”

Genius: It’s not just talent…

Sure our natural gifts and abilities help us. And for some people they help us a lot. But you and I know people who have every natural advantage in the world but who either waste it or just can’t get it right.

Genius: It’s not just hard work…

Many of us were taught that if we work hard enough for long enough, we will get what we want. But it doesn’t always work like that. And some people feel a failure. Which makes perfect sense when you realize that there is a part of you that knows what you are capable of, and that you are not achieving, experiencing and enjoying the success and fulfilment that you want, doesn’t it!

Genius: It’s not enough to “learn by doing”.

To be your best – you need to concentrate and practice getting better. And it can take time. A long time. And it’s working at getting better too – not just playing around! We need to work smarter – not just work harder. And most of us just don’t do it. Are you showing up at your best?

What if you could be free yourself to be your best?

Dan Smith holds five University degrees (including Psychology and Innovation Management), a fourth degree black belt in karate, and started his first company at the age of 20. Dan is a Certified NLP Trainer, Distinguished Toastmaster and has been living in Shanghai for the past two years.

One of his German participants recently described Dan as “a very experienced trainer who helped me with his knowledge and a huge capacity of understanding to find out where I am, who I am and where I want to go and then provided me with practical and powerful tools to accomplish whatever I wish for.”

To register your place, please visit www.ChinaNLP.org or see us on Facebook.

Years ago, I found that I could survive on 4.5h sleep but…

Years ago, I found I could survive on 4.5 hours of sleep per night but that my creativity died. Seems that Jim Collins feels the same way http://is.gd/HCXE

It was while I was at university, and while I found that I could work hard enough to get some of my best academic results, I felt drained. Not that I couldn’t think – but just that I could only think within the rules. I couldn’t look beyond the rules, frameworks and paradigms that were presented to me, and I certainly couldn’t explore the connections between systems. So I went back to enjoying dreams.

Still, it was a worthwhile experiment!

(originally published on DanielSmith.info)