Speaking Notes:
First day of Junior English in high school –
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Jabberwocky ~ Lewis Carroll
What is the subject of this sentence? Why?
What is the verb? Why?
Continued for the entire first week.
“Is he like this at home too?”
Education system – find the right answer . . . “first right answer.”
Learn the answer so you can repeat it back on the test.
Answers make a framework of “this is the way the world works.”
The answers you “know” make up the framework of your life.
Framework = MATRIX
Matrix = boundaries beyond which you will not go!
There is a reason our education system trains you to look for the first right answer.
I chose to have my dad for Junior English.
He was a great teacher.
“What do you teach?” – I teach students how to think.
My dad taught me the power of asking questions.
You don’t stop asking questions when you come to the first “right” answer.
His teaching style was to ask questions.
I learned how to ask questions back to him.
Some of our conversations were questions back and forth.
So what does this have to do with mindset?
You have to ask better questions if you want to get out of the MATRIX.
Tony Robbins: The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the questions you are asking yourself.
Matrix life:
I have my routine, my job, family, friends. I know how the world works and I’ve accepted my place in it.
“Accepted my place” = stopped asking high value questions.
What will I do this weekend?
What will I have for lunch?
Where will we go on vacation?
Should I try to find a new job?
High value questions:
What could I do to live a truly epic life?
How can I get in the best shape of my life and have fun doing it?
How can I be the best version of myself and connect with other people who are working for the same goal?
What do I need to do to see the Matrix I’ve created and get free?
Once you start asking high value questions you’ll change your life.
Once you get out of the Matrix in your mind, you’ll see the Matrix in the world & how it has manipulated your thinking.
The people around you know how to use the tools of the Matrix to use you for their benefit: most obvious – advertising, news, politics.
Marketing framework PAS: pain, agitate, solution
Solution = THE ANSWER
Mindset – the story you tell yourself about yourself.
And your story is created from what you “know” inside the Matrix.
The way to change your mindset (life) is to ask better questions.
Who could you become if you set yourself free from the MATRIX?
Start with this question.
The path to the answer lies in the questions you ask to get there.
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