I am sure that it takes a special ingredient to make someone
successful; that ingredient is naivety.
To achieve you have to believe that you can, against all the
odds, beating off the competition to make it to the top. As you get older however
the more you see the truth that statistically you do not stand a hope in Hell
of achieving anything and therefore you need to be either young or naïve to
succeed.
So this may go a way to the understanding of how we get young
people achieving their dreams, just because they believe, however that naivety
can also mean they believe they are indestructible and not prone to failure,
leading some to join the 27 club.
As we get older it does seem that we become more risk averse
and because of this one has a tendency to play it safe. This may be partly due
to responsibilities that begin to pile up as we stumble through life. I know
that I have turned down exciting projects because of mortgages and children
have got in the way.
What I am proposing is that we use moments in life where we
turn on the naivety programme in NLP fashion by just thinking back to events
earlier in life and then immerse ourselves in that, seeing , hearing and
feeling as we did, then make your decisions through the prism of that
mind-set.
This could give us a valuable tool to take on new challenges
but with the added advantage of the experience of life which can militate
against the downside risk of youth.
Vic
