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UWECI March, 2013

Self Image and Performance

• Individual introductions• Your name• Your organization• Something unique about you

• Or something you’d like us to know about you

• And, have you been to any PI training?

Self Image and Performance

Recap … So Far

• A better future for you• Inherent Performance Potential • strengthening your own Causative Power, your Efficacy

for making intentional changes, acting with purpose• You, your family, your work, your groups, your community

• Reticular Activating System (RAS)• A universal cognitive mechanism constantly -

• operating below the conscious level,• filtering as well as scanning sense perceptions.• ‘Value Added’ proposition, Why talk about the RAS?

Thoughts on the ‘Resources’ from last time?

• TED Talks – Amy Cuddy• RSA Animate, the divided brain• Reticular Activating System• Facebook WE.R.CR• www.excelatlife.com

• Others stimulating resources?• Reflections for you, family, work, community?

Self Image is the Foundation of Performance

• Originally published in 1960

• Plastic Surgeon’s Insight

• ‘Mirror Image’ vs. ‘Self Image’

• 3 Keys for “Imprinting” the Self-Image

• Authoritative Source• Intensity• Repetition

Psychology yes but what is Cybernetics?

• Maltz credits academic Prescott Lecky • Dr. Norbert Weiner, Programmable Guidance

• A goal striving servo-mechanism used by the mind

• Theorized we all share a desire for ‘more life’ – happiness, success, peace of mind

• Theorized an Automatic Success Mechanism• Goals conveyed to the ASM are filtered through

the self-image and subject to self consistency• Proposed a “Theater of the Mind”

Prominent Psycho-Cybernetics successes

• Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers• Jack Nicklaus and Payne Stewart golfers• Dr. Richard Coop author “Mind over Golf”• Tim Gallwey “The Inner Game of Tennis”• Phil Jackson NBA• Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins motivation & sales• Dr Norman Vincent Peale “Positive Thinking”• Howard Schultz CEO Starbucks• Any others?

American Association of University Women

Published 2010

STEM Interest genders = through HS

Men 4 to 1 atCollege Gradin some fields

“….. cultural factorsare at work”

“believing in the potential for intellectual growth, in and of itself, improves (testing) outcomes”

How does this look in your lives?

• At your tables discuss

• Do these observations about Self-Image and Performance resonate in what you see of your life?

• Expand your frame of reference ….• If I have children, how does this apply?

• What about the rest of your life, work, community?

• Converse, take notes, be ready to share

• Anyone view the TED Video by Amy Cuddy?

• What thoughts and ideas from her story tie into today’s topics?

The TED Video Amy Cuddy

Selective Attention

• If indeed, we proceed to act upon our Self-Image “just as if it were true”, what is the RAS doing?

Homework before next time

• Compose a personal list of times when things went extraordinarily well for you, when your performance or achievement was even a little above your expectations.

• Keep this success list in a journal, notebook or other safe place where you can retrieve it and add to it as you recall additional memories that should be added to your list

• Practice a “Theater of the Mind”

Resources before next time

• Mar 28, 2013 PWN “Your Belief Quotient”• Dr. Lisa Van Allen, 7 beliefs, sabotage or support

• http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/whysofew.pdf

• Facebook group AAUW• Psycho-Cybernetics, Google, YouTube

• Used copies of Psycho-Cybernetics, $5 Amazon

• Look for the Psychology Portal in wikipedia• Look at the wiki entries for

• Psycho-Cybernetics, Prescott Lecky, Self-Image, Self-Concept, Self-Esteem

• Wikipedia article on the runner Cliff Young

Resources before next time

• Winners Circle Network, from Pacific Institute• http://www.pacificinstitute.com

• Jim Stovall, Motivation Consultant, tweets • Go look up Jim on the Internet • Jim has an amazing story, and I have a story too

• Own and use the phrase “I know there is an answer even if I don’t see it just yet”

If You’re Stuck and need a Breakthrough

• If this all seems like you’ve heard it before and it never worked before …..

• Begin thinking on the question “Do I have to or do I want to?”

• More on this next time!