confidence, your energy, your enthusiasm.
Your Fuel: Success Psychology
If your psychology is weak, even the best method will fail. In other
words, if you have connected stress, fear, nervousness, and doubt to the
process of speaking English you will have a lot of problems. Unfortunately,
this is exactly what happens in most schools. The tests, the error
corrections, and the boring and ineffective methods used in schools
combine to create powerful negative emotions in most students.
Even if you’re using my Effortless English™ method, you must have
strong psychology. Unless you bring the proper emotional energy to the
language-learning process, it won’t be enough.
The Effortless English™ system is based upon a success psychology
system known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. Developed by
Richard Bandler and John Grinder, NLP is focused on the psychology of
success, high-performance, and motivation. Rather than study mentally ill
people, Bandler and Grinder researched the psychology of the most
successful people in the world. They then created a psychological system
designed to help individuals achieve the highest levels of success and
happiness in their lives.
What Bandler and Grinder found was that happy, motivated and energetic
people actually learn better. They perform better. They achieve more
success in all aspects of their lives. The opposite is also true: If you’re
feeling bored, stressed, sad, frustrated or even tired, your brain actually
functions more slowly and has a harder time remembering information.
Clearly, it is important to connect positive, rather than negative, emotions
to the process of learning and speaking English. The process of connecting
emotions to an experience or process is called anchoring. Anchoring can be
positive or negative. For example, imagine that you listen to a specific song
when you are feeling extremely happy. If the emotion is strong enough, a
connection will be formed between the song and the emotion. And if you
