so what if you had no self doubt
what could you achieve in life the
biggest obstacle to success is your own
self-doubt think about how many things
you haven’t tried in life because you
are unsure the outcomes or perhaps
you’ve tried them but haven’t succeeded
yet because there was something about it
that made you nervous what if I can’t do
it what if I fail what if people laugh
at me
right I want you to think about one
thing that makes you nervous in life
something you haven’t tried yet and keep
that in mind as I talk today coz I’m
going to tell you about a technique with
nearly 50 years of research that is
proven to bypass your self-doubt and let
you succeed and the best part is you can
go home today and take the cell phone
that’s in your pocket and complete this
technique on your own the technique is
called video self modeling and you
probably haven’t heard about it
because until that cell phone in your
pocket was developed it used to take a
lot of very expensive equipment to
complete video self modeling and so only
researchers who could get grants could
do video self modeling my doctor will
visor Tom Cal happened to have such a
grant and to put the technology piece in
perspective for you
this was the cutting edge cell phone
that my brother gave to me in the 90s
when I learned video self modeling so
we’ve come a pretty long way in a short
period of time far enough that it is
time now for everybody to start using
video self modeling because the effects
are so powerful so what is video self
modeling I’m gonna give you a few key
components of it the first component is
that the videos are short they’re only
about 30 seconds to a couple of minutes
long so they don’t take a lot of your
time the second is that the videos show
you yourself performing whatever
behavior it is you want to be able to do
in real life and the third and probably
most important component is the videos
are edited so you are only looking good
on that video we take out all errors so
the videos are not used to shame
you and say look at how stupid you look
to when you did that there used to show
your brain exactly what to do so that
you can succeed it works on so many
different behaviors it works on
stuttering anxiety depression public
speaking skills reading fluency the list
goes on and on and on almost any
behavior you can show on film we can use
video self modeling for so how does it
work well it works by showing you
yourself as the model to learn from
without errors Albert bandura was the
first to identify that humans learn by
watching others and the more similar
that other person is to us the more
likely we are to model their behavior so
I came up with this example for D for
you to understand what I mean by that
you may recognize this very famous
singer Justin Bieber this was from 2010
he had a funny-looking hairdo but he was
very successful this is my son also in
2010 I guarantee you the adults around
him did not have that hairdo but he
modeled himself after somebody that he
perceived to be similar to himself who
was successful okay so we learn by
modeling others the more similar they
are to us the more likely we are to the
model of the behavior so you yourself
are the perfect model for yourself
so video self modeling can work on so
many different behaviors and so what
happens is when you’re when your body
when your brain sees yourself performing
well you have a natural route response
to be able to perform in real life
because upwellings not the only
technique that taps your root response
guided imagery and mirror therapy also
tap your root response but today we’re
going to focus on video self modeling
because it’s the one that you can
complete on your own so I started a
company about a year ago I left my my
role as a professor to start my own
company to spread use of video self
modeling because I thought it was so
important I firmly believe humans are
capable of so much
more if we start using video to learn
good goal behaviors so part of what I do
is I go out in school systems and
different programs and I train people
how to do video self modeling so I’m
going to share with you some examples of
what my trainees have been able to
accomplish and the reason I do with the
training is that the spread can go so
much further because I want to spread
video self modeling worldwide so this is
data from a little boy who was trying to
learn how to pedal his tricycle he’d
been working with the physical therapist
all last fall she used very good
techniques to try to teach him how to
pedal this tricycle
he couldn’t get past three or four
rotations so she filmed him doing those
three rotations and she repeated the
film over and over and actually if you
watch the film you see the same shadow
go past every time and then she found
him getting to a stop sign at the end
she showed this 30-second video to him
take a guess where he started watching
his video right there right there within
two weeks of watching his video after
months of other therapies not working
he started pedaling toot we got 225 you
know why it stops at 25 because it was
Connecticut in the winter so he was
inside a gym he didn’t know how to turn
his bike yet I’m sure that was the next
video she made for him this next piece
of data is from a young boy with autism
who had never greeted adults in his life
zero percent of the time did he greet
adults so they made a film of showing
him greeting adults again take a guess
where he started watching his video
right there you got it started watching
it immediately went but took between 96
and 98 percent of the time he was
successfully greeting adults on his own
this young man he was about a middle
school-aged child his grandmother
reported that for the first time in his
life and the first time in her life he
woke up and he said good morning Nana
she had never heard those words in her
life from him from a 30-second video
imagine that so this next piece I’m
going to show you a video that was
created for a young boy who had never
eaten more than four foods very specific
behaviors about foods they had tried
lots of different techniques without
success to get them to eat more foods so
this is these are actual clips with some
descriptions in there so you can
understand what’s going on
[Music]
so he now on his own willingly requests
foods he’s eating chicken beans peaches
he’s getting all different kinds of
nutrition he’d never had before from a
simple short video and you can see it is
not Hollywood style footage you yourself
can do this so what I’m trying to do is
also spread video south modeling beyond
working with people with more extreme
challenges to more general global
behaviors so I’ve been gun working with
people working on learning healthy
behaviors Oprah Winfrey has famously
shared about her challenges with the ups
and downs of maintaining healthy
behaviors she’s been involved in lots of
programs imagine the consistency she
could get if she used video self
modeling and I stand here today telling
you I know she could get that
consistency because I have been working
I’ve been supporting Weight Watchers
clients up in Maine and I’ve been
supporting them in adhering to their
program and I just got data this week
that I didn’t have time to put into the
slides because they were due last week
but they are losing 35 pounds 55 pounds
they are staying with their program and
when they do go off their program a
little bit they’re coming back to it
because they’re reporting to me they
have the images in their heads even if
they’re not currently watching their
videos they have those images in their
heads they’re coming get back to it so
Oprah feel free to call me we’ll get you
there so what else can we do we could
think about professional athletes right
they still aren’t making those free
throw shots those choke shots or
professional golfers when they get onto
the golf course and they get to the
short game or soccer players trying to
shoot the the the great shots you know
right when it’s the penalty kick shot
imagine if they use video self modeling
to bypass their self-doubt in those
situations they would succeed and on
their area we could use it is in
education not just for children because
to be honest with you every school
system
in the world should have video self
modeling in there because the effects
are so fantastic but what if we also use
video to help teachers with feedback on
their craft
Bill Gates actually gave a TED talk and
he talks about using video in classrooms
to help teachers improve their craft if
he tweaks his idea just a bit and uses
video self modeling to give the teachers
the perfect model to learn from they
themselves without errors not from an
expert showing their brains exactly what
to do on a short video he will be
successful I guarantee it
bill feel free to call Oprah she’ll have
my number okay so remember at the
beginning I asked you think about
something that makes you nervous given
that so many people are afraid of public
speaking I thought that might be in your
mind so I came up with an example for
you on how you can go home today
and do videos self modeling for yourself
so here’s a simple way video stuff
modeling can work for you in your life
what if giving a talk makes you nervous
maybe it’s giving a TED talk that makes
you nervous maybe it’s giving a
presentation to the higher-ups at work
or to a new client what can you do take
your camera film yourself giving that
talk but with nobody else there
preferably either in a place that you’re
extremely confident for me that places
the same jack Club in New London where I
do my sailing or maybe even in the
location where you’re going to be giving
your presentation because you will look
much more confident and comfortable if
nobody else is there so then you can
edit in an audience
show yourself giving the speech edit in
a fabulous audience responds and it will
significantly build your confidence in
your ability to do that
[Applause]
ah that’s excellent modeling very well
done
thank you but I urge you to go out and
try this on your own these people learn
these kids are not performing because
I’ve come in and said please eat right
I’d love to have that power but I don’t
it’s because they’re watching themselves
that little boy he didn’t learn to eat
he’s not even able to learn to eat by
watching his peers
it took watching himself that got him to
do that it is extraordinarily powerful
and I firmly believe humanity is capable
of so much more if we start using video
to learn those good behaviors think
about what we can do in business in
education in our personal lives so I
urge you please go out try the technique
help me to spread it worldwide I thank
you for your time
[Applause]
what could you achieve in life the
biggest obstacle to success is your own
self-doubt think about how many things
you haven’t tried in life because you
are unsure the outcomes or perhaps
you’ve tried them but haven’t succeeded
yet because there was something about it
that made you nervous what if I can’t do
it what if I fail what if people laugh
at me
right I want you to think about one
thing that makes you nervous in life
something you haven’t tried yet and keep
that in mind as I talk today coz I’m
going to tell you about a technique with
nearly 50 years of research that is
proven to bypass your self-doubt and let
you succeed and the best part is you can
go home today and take the cell phone
that’s in your pocket and complete this
technique on your own the technique is
called video self modeling and you
probably haven’t heard about it
because until that cell phone in your
pocket was developed it used to take a
lot of very expensive equipment to
complete video self modeling and so only
researchers who could get grants could
do video self modeling my doctor will
visor Tom Cal happened to have such a
grant and to put the technology piece in
perspective for you
this was the cutting edge cell phone
that my brother gave to me in the 90s
when I learned video self modeling so
we’ve come a pretty long way in a short
period of time far enough that it is
time now for everybody to start using
video self modeling because the effects
are so powerful so what is video self
modeling I’m gonna give you a few key
components of it the first component is
that the videos are short they’re only
about 30 seconds to a couple of minutes
long so they don’t take a lot of your
time the second is that the videos show
you yourself performing whatever
behavior it is you want to be able to do
in real life and the third and probably
most important component is the videos
are edited so you are only looking good
on that video we take out all errors so
the videos are not used to shame
you and say look at how stupid you look
to when you did that there used to show
your brain exactly what to do so that
you can succeed it works on so many
different behaviors it works on
stuttering anxiety depression public
speaking skills reading fluency the list
goes on and on and on almost any
behavior you can show on film we can use
video self modeling for so how does it
work well it works by showing you
yourself as the model to learn from
without errors Albert bandura was the
first to identify that humans learn by
watching others and the more similar
that other person is to us the more
likely we are to model their behavior so
I came up with this example for D for
you to understand what I mean by that
you may recognize this very famous
singer Justin Bieber this was from 2010
he had a funny-looking hairdo but he was
very successful this is my son also in
2010 I guarantee you the adults around
him did not have that hairdo but he
modeled himself after somebody that he
perceived to be similar to himself who
was successful okay so we learn by
modeling others the more similar they
are to us the more likely we are to the
model of the behavior so you yourself
are the perfect model for yourself
so video self modeling can work on so
many different behaviors and so what
happens is when you’re when your body
when your brain sees yourself performing
well you have a natural route response
to be able to perform in real life
because upwellings not the only
technique that taps your root response
guided imagery and mirror therapy also
tap your root response but today we’re
going to focus on video self modeling
because it’s the one that you can
complete on your own so I started a
company about a year ago I left my my
role as a professor to start my own
company to spread use of video self
modeling because I thought it was so
important I firmly believe humans are
capable of so much
more if we start using video to learn
good goal behaviors so part of what I do
is I go out in school systems and
different programs and I train people
how to do video self modeling so I’m
going to share with you some examples of
what my trainees have been able to
accomplish and the reason I do with the
training is that the spread can go so
much further because I want to spread
video self modeling worldwide so this is
data from a little boy who was trying to
learn how to pedal his tricycle he’d
been working with the physical therapist
all last fall she used very good
techniques to try to teach him how to
pedal this tricycle
he couldn’t get past three or four
rotations so she filmed him doing those
three rotations and she repeated the
film over and over and actually if you
watch the film you see the same shadow
go past every time and then she found
him getting to a stop sign at the end
she showed this 30-second video to him
take a guess where he started watching
his video right there right there within
two weeks of watching his video after
months of other therapies not working
he started pedaling toot we got 225 you
know why it stops at 25 because it was
Connecticut in the winter so he was
inside a gym he didn’t know how to turn
his bike yet I’m sure that was the next
video she made for him this next piece
of data is from a young boy with autism
who had never greeted adults in his life
zero percent of the time did he greet
adults so they made a film of showing
him greeting adults again take a guess
where he started watching his video
right there you got it started watching
it immediately went but took between 96
and 98 percent of the time he was
successfully greeting adults on his own
this young man he was about a middle
school-aged child his grandmother
reported that for the first time in his
life and the first time in her life he
woke up and he said good morning Nana
she had never heard those words in her
life from him from a 30-second video
imagine that so this next piece I’m
going to show you a video that was
created for a young boy who had never
eaten more than four foods very specific
behaviors about foods they had tried
lots of different techniques without
success to get them to eat more foods so
this is these are actual clips with some
descriptions in there so you can
understand what’s going on
[Music]
so he now on his own willingly requests
foods he’s eating chicken beans peaches
he’s getting all different kinds of
nutrition he’d never had before from a
simple short video and you can see it is
not Hollywood style footage you yourself
can do this so what I’m trying to do is
also spread video south modeling beyond
working with people with more extreme
challenges to more general global
behaviors so I’ve been gun working with
people working on learning healthy
behaviors Oprah Winfrey has famously
shared about her challenges with the ups
and downs of maintaining healthy
behaviors she’s been involved in lots of
programs imagine the consistency she
could get if she used video self
modeling and I stand here today telling
you I know she could get that
consistency because I have been working
I’ve been supporting Weight Watchers
clients up in Maine and I’ve been
supporting them in adhering to their
program and I just got data this week
that I didn’t have time to put into the
slides because they were due last week
but they are losing 35 pounds 55 pounds
they are staying with their program and
when they do go off their program a
little bit they’re coming back to it
because they’re reporting to me they
have the images in their heads even if
they’re not currently watching their
videos they have those images in their
heads they’re coming get back to it so
Oprah feel free to call me we’ll get you
there so what else can we do we could
think about professional athletes right
they still aren’t making those free
throw shots those choke shots or
professional golfers when they get onto
the golf course and they get to the
short game or soccer players trying to
shoot the the the great shots you know
right when it’s the penalty kick shot
imagine if they use video self modeling
to bypass their self-doubt in those
situations they would succeed and on
their area we could use it is in
education not just for children because
to be honest with you every school
system
in the world should have video self
modeling in there because the effects
are so fantastic but what if we also use
video to help teachers with feedback on
their craft
Bill Gates actually gave a TED talk and
he talks about using video in classrooms
to help teachers improve their craft if
he tweaks his idea just a bit and uses
video self modeling to give the teachers
the perfect model to learn from they
themselves without errors not from an
expert showing their brains exactly what
to do on a short video he will be
successful I guarantee it
bill feel free to call Oprah she’ll have
my number okay so remember at the
beginning I asked you think about
something that makes you nervous given
that so many people are afraid of public
speaking I thought that might be in your
mind so I came up with an example for
you on how you can go home today
and do videos self modeling for yourself
so here’s a simple way video stuff
modeling can work for you in your life
what if giving a talk makes you nervous
maybe it’s giving a TED talk that makes
you nervous maybe it’s giving a
presentation to the higher-ups at work
or to a new client what can you do take
your camera film yourself giving that
talk but with nobody else there
preferably either in a place that you’re
extremely confident for me that places
the same jack Club in New London where I
do my sailing or maybe even in the
location where you’re going to be giving
your presentation because you will look
much more confident and comfortable if
nobody else is there so then you can
edit in an audience
show yourself giving the speech edit in
a fabulous audience responds and it will
significantly build your confidence in
your ability to do that
[Applause]
ah that’s excellent modeling very well
done
thank you but I urge you to go out and
try this on your own these people learn
these kids are not performing because
I’ve come in and said please eat right
I’d love to have that power but I don’t
it’s because they’re watching themselves
that little boy he didn’t learn to eat
he’s not even able to learn to eat by
watching his peers
it took watching himself that got him to
do that it is extraordinarily powerful
and I firmly believe humanity is capable
of so much more if we start using video
to learn those good behaviors think
about what we can do in business in
education in our personal lives so I
urge you please go out try the technique
help me to spread it worldwide I thank
you for your time
[Applause]
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