The highlight for me last week was when a pupil texted me over the weekend and told me that he got selected into Ngee Ann Poly's School of Film, Sound and Video via DPA. That pupil who got selected could not believe it was real and I was simply estatic knowing about it. It is his dream place to be, a place where he will be in constant companion to all things film and video.
To boost his confidence prior to the interview, I gave him some NLP pointers to prepare his mental state when facing the interviewers. In such a short encounter to something so important, optimal experiences to the interviewers are crucial. It is all about the selling of certain ideas, the ideas that he is a well deserved candidate that the Poly will not want to miss out, that a person of his talent will be able to soar under the professional guidance of the faculty.
I was curious about what happened after the interview but the pupil was somewhat dejected initially, knowing there were only 3 seats available in the DPA programme and with the number of pupils from the 'elite' schools which he saw, thought that his chances were slim. And to make matters worse, he thought he answered the interviewers' questions inaptly. When I probed about what were the questions asked, I found out that the interviewers did in fact had a sustained interest in finding out more from him, as they saw the short film he had prepared and asked him many industry related questions which he has knowledge or opinion on. And many days later, it proved that it was in fact good enough to impress them to open their doors.
Ahhh... Decisions to act is immensely important, much more so when compared to talent just sitting idle. This is so coincidentally linked to the subject of my previous post. I had a conversation with the pupil in school to congratulate him again and asked him to take time to appreciate his effort. It was only a few years ago when this young man had lots of trouble convincing his parents about what he wants to do in his life. And he had, with persistence, successfully persuaded them that he is serious about this course of action and is ready to work hard for it.
It is just one pupil over here. But his decision to believe what he can do have already altered his life.
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Its heartening to see you practicing NLP in different scenarios. NLP is a tool to shape our internal beliefs about our lives. Simple and yet powerful.
All actions step from beliefs. Hence,when the beliefs are aligned, so will the actions.
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