The Key To Success:
Model The Best
Tom O'Connor
What’s the most important skill you could ever acquire?
- The ability to make money?
- The ability to get anyone to say yes?
- The ability to lead others?
While of these are highly valuable, there’s one skill that trumps all the rest.
It’s the number 1 skill that led to 40+ years of innovation in NLP.
It’s the number 1 skill used by elite NLP masters.
It’s the number 1 skill behind Tony Robbin’s greatest successes.
That skill is modelling.
If you want to be more successful at anything you want to achieve right now there is a way to compress decades of learning into days. That’s by learning to model someone who is already accomplished what you want and use that knowledge to modify your own behaviour, so an entirely different class of result is possible.
And when you do that over and over again – remarkable things become possible.
Take Tony Robbins.
If you are a fan of Tony Robbins then you know his humble background. The ups and downs of his career. Things didn’t really start to turn-around for him until he hit rock bottom in his life and a friend introduced him to NLP.
Where he became fascinated by a very promising but very little understood set of skills developed in NLP. Soon Tony was hooked on modelling.
Tony would go on to develop many skills. He’s a great storyteller, a charismatic communicator, a savvy businessperson. But none of those are Tony’s greatest strengths, nor was he born with them.
In fact, according to Tony, his success is based on just two things:
- Modelling.
- A sense of urgency to take action and not let opportunities pass him by.
Something he freely admits.
The key to success in NLP has always been MODEL THE BEST.
“Model someone who is already getting the results that you want.
If you want to accelerate the tempo of mastery, find someone who is already getting the result you want, figure out what they are doing and do the same thing.
SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES.
If someone is successful, not once, not twice but consistently in anything, they are not lucky. They have a strategy. They may not know what it is, but they have one. And if you can figure out what it is, you can save yourself decades in trial-and-error learning.
This is the #1 secret for things in my life that worked that I have mastered.”
--Tony Robbins
But here’s a big problem. Maybe you have wondered this to…
- “How do I model?”
- “Where do I start?”
- “What skills do I need?”
If you’ve ever wondered any of those or the many more questions that arise when one is eager to learn modeling, don’t worry you aren’t alone.
For many years I had these questions myself and I spent several years reading all the books and studying all the courses on modelling I could get my hands on but I realised there was tons of things missing when it came to putting modeling into practice.
It was right then I realised most of what is taught in NLP as ‘modeling’ really is NOT modeling. It’s the illusion of modelling.
Modelling isn’t simply eliciting someone’s strategies or their beliefs or even their meta-programmes. Nor is it imitating other people.
Real modelling goes so much further than that. But first we have to clear up the most common misunderstandings about what modelling is and how it operates before we can learn how to use this uber powerful skill to rapidly acquire any skill we want.
And that’s what I’m going to cover tomorrow.
To your success,
Tom
P.S. What questions do you have about modelling or rapid skill acquisition? Let me know here.
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