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In this post, you'll learn why you are skilled in some ways, while not in others, how you can use a simple mental trick to gain all the skill and confidence you'll ever need to increase your performance in any subject such as public speaking, making money, seduction and more, and why it can help you to perform any skill with absolute certainty -- even if you've never actually done it before.

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There is a skill you can own that’ll give you a lot of power to do what you desire in any given situation and that one skill is confidence, and it works if you know how to build it properly -- even if you're a complete novice.

Think about it: suppose you were introduced to that once wildly popular video game called “Guitar Hero” (fun game). You’ve never touched a video game in your life. So, you pick up the guitar ready to play (if you can even manage to turn the thing on). Once the game starts going you stumble, a lot. The crowd boo’s at you and you can’t even finish the first part of the song.

However, let’s imagine that someone else was already skilled at video games. They’ve played them since Atari. Their skill level is going to be much better than yours, thus giving them more confidence. They’re not only going to finish the song, but they’re going to finish it on the expert level. They’re fingers will seem to push the buttons at 100 MPH, and you get dizzy just watching the screen.

Fortunately, there is a shortcut to increase your confidence. That simple shortcut is seeing you performing the skill at the highest level before you even finish.

I had an interesting conversation with someone that played video games. He was telling me how he was able to “hack” a popular game called Call of Duty 2, which is a first person shooter game that people from all over the world log on to play and shoot each other in fantasy land.

He told me something interesting that when he had hacked his level to the highest you could be, he started to play better. He went on to explain how this didn’t affect his skill level through the video game. He still had the same guns, his accuracy or anything else didn’t get better, so it was all the same, he just had the highest prestige badge you could gain in the game. In this case, he cheated to get it.

But he played better?

He explained to me that once he had that “high level badge” he started to think about how he had better play like he was that skilled. So he began to ask “how does a high level player play?” “Where do they go on the map in the game?” “What guns do they use?”

This was interesting to me because he had stepped into a skilled player mentality. Once he had stepped into that mentality, he began to see himself as a high skilled player, and within only a few short days of playing the game, he bad increased his skill level of play by astronomical margins.

While it’s not necessary to cheat your way to the top like my friend, you can still use your creative imagination to see you at the highest skill level possible.

When I had first talked to a group of CEO’s for a large fortune 500 company, I was nervous beyond all nervous. While I’m sure that what I had to share with them at the time was a high skill level I had about persuasion, advertising, influence, etc compared to them, I was definitely intimidated when asked to come talk to the top dog’s that ran the company, give them my two cents, and get paid a lot to do so.

Before the event, I had rehearsed in my mind myself giving my presentation, having their undivided attention, and having them ask me a lot of questions, offer me more opportunities, and in short – nailing the presentation down like an expert.

I rehearsed myself doing this in my mind so many times, by the time I got off the plane, took a limo ride, got on the elevator to go up to the highest floor, walked into the room with all those big money players, I had already in my mind had the presentation nailed.

I noticed my body language, my tone of voice and mannerisms all sang the same tune according to my confidence. While this was the first time I’ve ever spoken to such a professional group of individuals, the presentation worked out exactly the way I knew it would – because I had it rehearsed in my mind.

To most people this seems like a silly or childish thing to do, but it works. I’ve taught a lot of men that were shy around women to rehearse in their mind approaching, introducing, and meeting women before they even went out. What we had found out was that the more details you have in place while doing this, the more confident you become.

You see, the mind can’t tell the difference between what is real or imagined and it doesn’t know any other time than right now. That’s why if you pretend doing something perfect in your mind over and over again while stepping into the future, the mind assumes you’re doing it right now, and have done it over and over again, so you automatically – through the power of your creative imagination, build confidence in any given area.

Have an important interview? An important conversation to have with your spouse? A meeting? Have to give a speech? Need to develop your sports performance?

Use this skill. Develop the confidence you need by taking time seeing yourself do it with perfection many times, before you even do it. By the time you actually do it, it’ll be like second nature to you.

You’ll be confident.

The only other alternative now that I’ve shared with you this skill you can choose to use… or not, is to go at it blindly with little or no confidence and not getting what you want.

So, if you want to be successful before you even do anything, rehearse it in your mind doing it perfectly as if it’s happening right now, rehearse it over and over again to the point where you can say “That’s me.”

Talk Soon,
Nathan Blaszak