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See,
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we learn and gain confidence in whatever
we think is going to help us fulfill
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what's most meaningful to us, most
important to us, the highest value.
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Almost every parent wants to have
their children confident and feel
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like they stand on their
own two feet eventually,
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and have resilience and adaptability
to whatever happens in their life.
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So my topic today is about building
confidence and resilience in younger
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children. Well, children in the
elementary school age probably,
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that's the main age I was thinking of
when I wanted to do this topic. So,
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first of all, everyone, regardless of age,
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has a set of priorities, a set of values
that they live their life by. Now,
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in the 1950s, it was thought that
children were blank slates and that
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socialization and parental influence
was to give the children their value
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system. That's a bit outdated.
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And the reality today is that
children, even when they're very young,
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already have a set of values. You can
add to them. You can influence them.
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You can learn to communicate in the,
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what you want them to take on in
their values and incorporate them,
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but they already have a set of
values that are unique to them.
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No two people have the same set of values.
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So beware of the autocratic
imposition of your value system onto
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your kids and expecting
them to live in your values,
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because you'll probably find that
that's pretty frustrating. ,
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that's like getting your spouse to try
to live in your values and rewarding them
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if they do and punish them if they don't.
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Sometimes that backfires
to some degree. I mean,
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there's a necessity for communicating,
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but it's caring and respectfully
communicating what you
value in terms of their
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values that get the
results done. So anyway,
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these children have their
own unique set of values,
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and whatever's highest on their set of
values they're inspired spontaneously
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to take action on.
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That's why you see these
young boys sometimes do
spontaneous video games and the
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girls are sitting there on social
media or something like that.
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They spontaneously do that.
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But if you want them to do something
that is not the highest value,
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then you'll have usually extrinsic
motivation, reward them if they do,
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punishment if they don't do what you
want, in terms of what their value is.
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So you'll say something to the effect
that if you do what I've asked,
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you get to play your video games. If you
don't, you can't play your video games.
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So you'll use extrinsic
motivation to supplement the
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drive to get them to do what you want
them to do. Well, that's pretty normal.
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That's a process that we all use.
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But if you want them to
be more confident and more
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resilient,
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just know that the maximum confidence
and resilience is when they feel that
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they're fulfilling their highest values.
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So anytime somebody is prioritizing their
life and doing something that's most
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important to them and meaningful to
them, their confidence in themselves,
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because we tend to walk our
talk in our highest values,
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we tend to limp our life in our lowest.
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We tend to grow in self-worth and
confidence in our highest values.
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We tend to lower self-worth and
lack of confidence in our lowest.
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I have a high value on teaching and
if I'm teaching, I gain confidence.
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If I was to all of a sudden try to
cook or do IT repairs or something
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I'd probably be, you know,
overwhelmed, let's put it that way.
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It's not high on my value, so I
don't really learn in that area.
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We all learn most in what we value most.
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So the confidence and the
place of most resilience,
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where we have the most
objectivity and neutral view,
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where we're not fearing the loss of
things or fearing the gain of things,
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most resilience occurs
in our highest values.
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So the first thing I would encourage you
to do is to take the time to identify
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what is highest on your child's values.
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And I have a Value Determination
process on my website.
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I can encourage you to consider it. It's
free, it's private, it's complimentary,
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in other words.
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But go in there and there's 13 questions
you want to ask yourself or ask your
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child and really pay close
attention to the answers.
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How do they fill their space? How
do they spend their time, et cetera.
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These 13 questions help you
narrow down what is their life
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demonstrating as most important to them.
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Because that's what you can expect
them to be the most resilient and most
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confident in, whatever's
highest on their value.
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If you expect and project your values
onto them and expect them to excel and
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do things that aren't
highest on their values,
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just know you're probably
going to falsely label them.
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You're going to probably think, well,
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they're unmotivated or they're not
confident, or they're not driven,
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or they're this.
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And you typically put labels on people
whenever you project a value onto
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somebody that's not
highest on their value.
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You can rely on your boy or girl to
be doing, or whatever gender it is,
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you can rely on them to live
according to their values.
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The hierarchy of their values dictates
their destiny and it determines how they
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perceive, decide, and act.
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And if you expect them to do something
outside what their highest value is,
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you can pretty well guarantee
they're going to "betray" you,
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because they're not going to get around
to doing something that's important to
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you necessarily, unless
it's important to them.
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So finding out what their highest
value is, is the first step.
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Then taking the things, the classes
that they may want to be taking,
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the job responsibilities around the house
or the the chores that they're to be
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taking, anything that
you want them to take in,
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it is wise to communicate the
value of that, whatever that is,
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in terms of their highest value,
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how will doing their homework help
them fulfill their highest value?
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How will having them do the chores
help them fulfill their highest value?
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If you can't communicate in the way where
they're seeing that they're going to
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get their highest values met,
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they're not likely to take
on the accountability of
what you want them to do.
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And that they're going to be
less confident in doing it. See,
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we learn and gain confidence in whatever
we think is going to help us fulfill
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what's most meaningful to us, most
important to us, the highest value.
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So if we can articulate what we want
them to do, the classes, the chores,
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or whatever it is, or the experiences
that we want them to have,
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in terms of their values.
Now how do we do that?
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We take whatever their values
are, their highest values,
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particularly the top
three maybe, and you ask,
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how specifically is doing this chore
going to help them fulfill that?
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If you can't see how it's
going to help them fulfill it,
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you won't be able to articulate
it in a way where they'll get it.
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And they're not necessarily dedicated to
finding out how that chore is going to
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help them fulfill their values.
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So unless you either bring it out of
them by asking them or imposing that by
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finding out how it is yourself and
then communicating it in their values.
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You know,
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if you're selling anything in the world
and communication in relationships is
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selling, if you're communicating
anything and selling anything,
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you have to communicate what you
value, the product, service, or idea,
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in terms of the customer's value.
Well, your children are your customers,
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you want them to be
confident and resilient.
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Well you therefore want to be able to
have them do something that's meaningful
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and fulfilling to them
where they'll excel,
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where they have the most objective
resilience and have the most confidence in
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their behavior. And that's always
where their highest value is.
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So we want to care about our children
enough to articulate what we want them to
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master, develop in terms of what
they spontaneously want to do.
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And if we can communicate it in a way
where they're getting what they want,
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you know, if we help them get what
they want, we get what we want.
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We want confident, resilient kids.
And in the area of our highest value,
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when we're there, the blood, glucose,
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and oxygen goes into the forebrain and
activates more of the medial prefrontal
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cortex, even in children,
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it takes it away from the amygdala
and puts it into the developing brain.
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And by the way, most people, most kids,
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children don't develop the executive
center to usually in the mid twenties.
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But the reality is that when children are
doing something that's highly engaging
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and really high on their
value, the blood, glucose,
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and oxygen goes in that area
and it starts developing early.
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And so then you have an
executively function, resilient,
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adaptable individual that's
more logical, more reasonable,
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instead of just emotional and
volatile and outta control.
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So our kids are more stable,
our kids are more resilient,
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our kids are more confident
in their highest value.
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Their brain is developing and they're
excelling in that and they gain more
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momentum and more vision for their life
and wake up more leadership roles if
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they do. So,
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taking the time to find out what the
current value is and it's evolving and
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changing,
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and I would recommend you do the Value
Determination at least quarterly,
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and then communicating what you believe
will be of help to them, the chores,
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the homework, the whatever it may be,
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and find out yourself as
a parent and train your
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children how to find how
whatever they're asked to do,
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how's it helping them fulfill their
highest value? They're more engaged,
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more inspired to do it. They'll be
more resilient when they're doing it.
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More willing to embrace the pains
and pleasures of it if they do.
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Because whenever you can
see that something's helping
you fulfill what's most
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important to you, you have way
more perseverance, more resilience,
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you're way more confident, you
build up momentum and you achieve.
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So taking the time to actually
ask how specifically is
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the thing that I would
love for them to do,
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their class that they want
to do well in, or the chores,
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how specifically is it helping
them fulfill their highest value?
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If you can't see it and you go blank
and you think their values are wrong
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and you think yours are right, and you
think, well, because I'm the adult,
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I know better than that, well
that's fine. You may be true.
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But at the same time, if you want to
communicate with them and gain their,
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help them gain their
confidence and resilience,
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it's caring enough to meet them in
their model of the world and their value
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system and communicate what you
value in terms of their value system.
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Whenever you do,
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they're more receptive and open and listen
and they'll inject the values of what
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you want. They'll take those on.
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The second you try to go and
force them to do something,
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the more they retaliate, the more the
sympathetic nervous system comes on,
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the more they have challenge, the more
they shut down their executive center,
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the more they go into the amygdala
and the more they become volatile and
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reactive and non resilient.
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So don't autocratically impose
these value systems onto them and
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expect them to live in what you think
is important. Care enough about, I mean,
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think about this. If you were to
meet somebody that was a customer,
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how would you communicate with
them? You just autocratically say,
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buy my product and
otherwise you're an idiot.
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Or go to your room if you
don't buy my product. No,
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it wouldn't get you anywhere.
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So care enough about your children to
find out what their highest values are
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and respect them enough to communicate
what you believe will be a value to them
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in their life.
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And make sure that you're not just
projecting your own weaknesses or your own
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voids in your life and making them,
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forcing them to be something you want
them to do because you didn't finish
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something.
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Make sure it's something truly valuable
to them to help them in their life and
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communicate it in a way where they're
getting what their values are met.
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And if you can ask,
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how specifically is doing that action
helping them fulfill their values,
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and answer that 10, 20, 30
times, the more you answer that,
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the more able you'll be to communicate
what you want in terms of their values.
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The more they do, the more
resilient they will become.
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Because anytime you're in your
highest values, you're more neutral.
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And anytime you're in your lower values,
you're more volatile, more extreme,
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more absolute. Just like
in the study of moralities,
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you've got relativism at the top of the
morality game and absolutisms at the
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bottom. And the absolutisms
are black and white.
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And black and white are non
resilient and non adaptable.
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And when you try to reason with somebody
who's in black and white thinking
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they're resistant and they're not
creative and they're not empowered
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in that state and they're
not confidence in that state,
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there's a lot of uncertainty and bias.
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So the second we get them in their
highest values and communicate in their
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highest values and respect
their highest values,
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the more easy it is to be a parent. Again,
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if you help them get what
they want to get in life,
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you'll get what you want to get in life.
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So care enough to communicate what you
value or what you believe will help them,
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in terms of their values,
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by asking how specifically
is their value helping you?
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So you can appreciate their values.
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And how specifically is the thing you
want them to incorporate in their life,
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how's it helping them
fulfill their values?
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And if you can do that in a
way where they can see it,
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they'll take on the activity,
they'll be more resilient,
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they'll be more confident, they'll do
it because they love it. Just like,
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you know, my son loved video games,
he's very confident in his video games,
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but doing chores and stuff
wasn't his confidence,
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but if I communicated how specifically
that activity is going to help him in
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video games, he'd take it on.
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So my job was to figure out
how to articulate what I
wanted him to do in terms
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of what he wanted to do.
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And then he would do it because he could
see that it was going to help him in
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what he wanted. And that's the key.
And that's the same thing as selling.
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All caring is selling and all selling
is communicating what you value in terms
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of what they value. And
if you help them do that,
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you have sustainable fair exchange. You
win, they win. It's not a zero sum game,
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it's a non-zero sum game where both
people win and there's both productivity.
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And this allows your children to have
the most resilience and confidence.
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Whenever they're able to do
what's highest on their value,
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they spontaneously are
inspired from within to do it.
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And that's where confidence comes.
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When you're spontaneously
inspired to do something,
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you can't wait to get up in the morning
and do it, and you just keep doing it,
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you master it, you develop the skills,
you practice it, you perform it,
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your fine motor skills
become more effective,
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your executive function becomes more
online, you become more confident,
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and you become more resilient because
you're more objective and less volatile
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and less polarized in your perspective.
See, when you're highly polarized,
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you fear the loss of that what you seek
and you fear the gain of that what you
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try to avoid.
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So if you're highly judgmental and
highly polarized in your perception,
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you're not resilient.
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So that's what happens if you impose
autocratically onto the child what they
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don't want to do and they can't see how
it's going to help them do what they
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want, they go into their amygdala,
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they go into this fundamental black
and white thinking and put on defense
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and get reactive and create volatile and
create emotional blackmail syndromes in
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order to get you to do,
help them do what they want.
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And in the process of doing
it, you lose your resilience.
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So communicate what you value in terms
of your children's values and you'll help
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the resilience and
confidence in their life.
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That's one of the reasons I teach
the Breakthrough Experience. Now,
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although there are children that
attend the Breakthrough Experience,
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in some cases, most of the
people that attend are adults.
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And that is one of the
things that adults have said,
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that since they've learned the value
system, how to determine values,
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how to communicate in values,
how to do links in values,
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not only has it helped them in their
life become more resilient and confident,
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not only has it helped them
empower the seven areas of life,
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but it's helped them in
their communication with
their spouse and their kids.
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And knowing how to communicate what they
value in terms of other people's values
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has made a huge difference in their
dynamics in their relationships.
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So if for some reason you have children
or you're in a relationship where you're
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trying to communicate what you want
in terms of what other people want,
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so you have more dialogue,
not alternating monologues,
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attend the Breakthrough Experience,
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come to the Breakthrough Experience
and let me show you how to do that,
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let you experience doing it so you
know how to apply it so you can see the
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results of that,
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because it can make a huge difference
in the way you raise the kids,
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what their outcomes are and the
dynamics you have in your relationships.
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Not just your at home, but also in your
social life business, your customers,
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but definitely in your family dynamics.
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So come and join the Breakthrough
Experience so I can show you how to have,
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you and the family and the kids
have more confidence and resilience.