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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is… infinite.”
~ William Blake
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In the 1960’s Dr. Rosenthal conducted an experiment in a San Francisco school. At the beginning of the school year he invited three teachers to a meeting and informed them their teaching skills had been monitored closely over the previous year. Due to this survey, these three teachers were determined to be the very best teachers in the district. As a result of this finding they would all be given a special class of 30 students who had been hand picked due to exceedingly high IQ and uncommon gifts.
The teachers were elated and happy to begin the school year with these extraordinary pupils. Their enthusiasm for teaching escalated, and many new and creative ideas were readily implemented due to their excitement.
These three special classes were monitored throughout the school year, and the teaching styles observed. All three teachers proved to have a greater commitment to their class, they spent more time with each student, and they were extremely patient with any child who did not catch on right away. They invested more time tutoring after school, and if a child was having a challenge, all three of the teachers were more likely to believe there was something wrong with their teaching skills, rather than the child. They would adjust accordingly in an attempt to remedy the situation, and the child would inevitably improve.
At the end of the school year these three special classes had scored 20-30 percent higher in academic achievement than any other class in the entire school district. When the results were in, the principal called the three teachers in to congratulate them, and then proceeded to tell them that all the students they had been given were average. The students had been chosen through a blind lottery and their names picked at random. The teachers refused to believe this, saying, “No, these children were very special; all very gifted and wonderful children.” Not only were the students chosen at random, but the teachers had been chosen with the same lottery.
The principal went on to explain it had all been an experiment to see how a belief would change the behavior of a teacher, and how this behavior would alter the students success. When these teachers thought they had been given the creme of the crop, they treated their pupils as though they were highly intelligent and expected them to perform at a genius level…and many did.
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The way people treat each other is generally based on ideas or assumptions of who others are, and those assumptions are often based on ideas about the self and comparison. What if we never assume anything, and simply listen to what people are excited about, and support them in those adventures?
Latent and unexperienced talents live within each Spirit very excited to be expressed. We can bring those forward by paying attention to what inspires and electrifies, by expecting them, and by commanding the Spirit:
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I COMMAND MY SPIRIT TO BRING FORWARD MY SPECIAL TALENT AS A SINGER…
I COMMAND MY SPIRIT TO BRING FORTH MY SPECIAL TALENT AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER…
I COMMAND MY SPIRIT TO BRING FORTH MY SPECIAL ABILITIES AS A PARENT…
MUSICIAN, PAINTER, SWIMMER, LISTENER, LOVER, HORSE WHISPERER….
Anything you have special interest in is your Spirit pointing to exciting abilities yearning to be expressed.
What if we perceived others as, already, the person they yearn to be? You may be surprised by the results. We transform existence together by supporting the Spirit within each other.
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
~ W.B. Yeats
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Experiment Outline Reference: Maximum Achievement, Brian Tracy
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