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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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September 2003
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Quote of the Month
* Announcements
* Events
* FEATURE ARTICLE: "The Big Secret to Dissolving Problems"
by George Copsey
* Comments & Feedback
* Links - archives, back issues, homepage
* Reader Questionnaire
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same..."
-- Rudyard Kipling, IF
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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WELCOME to all new members who have joined us this month. We hope
to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues
are available upon request. Just add the month to the subject line:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRAIN TO BECOME A TRAINER? If you've enjoyed the
techniques taught by Project Renaissance and have benefited from
them, perhaps you would consider learning them in greater depth so
as to teach them to others. Project Renaissance is seeking dedicated
individuals who like to help others help themselves. There will be
trainer training in conjunction with the November Double Festival,
and we are exploring other methods for bringing training to you.
If you'd like to find out more about ths possibility of becoming a
trainer, whether full-time or part-time, please email your interest
to Project Renaissance's Executive Director and Conference Manager,
Tijl Koenderink, at mailto:tijl@dare2b.nl?subject=Training
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BOOKS FOR BABIES: One little board book, which does the best job
I've ever seen of catching and holding the attention of very young
babies, is published by Ladybug in
by going to
http://books.ladybird.co.uk/Book/BookFrame/0,1007,,00.html?id=0721481787
That book and a similar one from the same publisher, called "Animal,"
is now very much brightening the life of my three-and-a-half-months-
old grandson.
These two books with their bright, geometric designs are a perfect
match for the amphibian pons phase of brain development. Any parents
expecting, or with newborns (since it may take some days or weeks to
get the books across the
use as soon as possible. ...Win Wenger
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you can upgrade your participation in Project Renaissance to full
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to additional benefits. If you're not yet a member, please register
now, here: http://www.winwenger.com/regmem.htm - or from link on
the homepage, http://www.winwenger.com .
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SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS: If you have ever presented at a Project
Renaissance conference, such as the annual Double Festivals in
November, and are interested in presenting at this year's Double
Festival, please let us know of your availability. This year's
theme is "Problem-Solving in the Global Village". Email your
interest to Project Renaissance's Executive Director and Conference
Manager, Tijl Koenderink, at mailto:tijl@dare2b.nl by the end of
September, with a brief description of your proposed topic.
If you have not previously presented at a Project Renaissance
event but would like to, email your proposal to Win Wenger at
mailto:wwenger101@aol.com by September 30, 2003.
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EVENTS
Free monthly meetings of High Thinktank...Open to the public.
After the summer recess, during which Win was away teaching,
meetings will resume Tuesday, September 30, 2003
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. promptly
Fall schedule:
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Meetings begin at 7:30pm sharp. New topics each time.
Please check the Project Renaissance website calendar
for details and directions, at
http://www.winwenger.com/events.htm
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DOUBLE FESTIVAL XII - November 2003...
Project Renaissance's annual conference, Double Festival XII, will
take place November 14-20, 2003, in the
will begin with a condensed course of Beyond Einstein training
(Friday, Nov. 14) and conclude with four days of trainer training
(November 17-20). The main events will be on Saturday and Sunday,
November 15-16, 2003. Attendees can choose to register for some or
all of the sessions.
The theme is "Problem Solving in a Global Village". As always,
there will be many formal training sessions that give thorough
background information on the theme by a variety of highly skilled
speakers. These topics will be delivered in Dynamic Format, which
allows for much interaction by the participants.
During these days you will learn not only from the speakers but
also from each other. Each participant is a student and a teacher
at the same time. As a group we will address several world
problems, and try to bring them down to a personal, "what can I do
about it" level.
Watch the website, http://www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm
for further details.
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Feature Article:
THE BIG SECRET TO DISSOLVING PROBLEMS
by George Copsey
Let's look at what problems really are...because if you keep
thinking, feeling and doing what you've been thinking, doing and
feeling, you'll likely keep getting the same results...more problems.
99.99% of people attempting to solve problems in their lives are
making the same MAJOR "mistakes" over and over again...
* Mistakes that are costing them a lot of money, time, grief,
frustration, aggravation and energy.
* Mistakes that are keeping them from being, doing and having the
things they want.
In my opinion, there is absolutely zero benefit to holding in mind
the view that something is a "problem."
Let me repeat this. It's critical.
There is absolutely ZERO benefit for you to believe something is a
"problem."
In fact, it can actually get in the way of having what you want...
even hurt you.
Here's why - let's walk through this together.
First, there is no one set of circumstances that EVERYONE would
agree is a problem.
If something were a problem in itself, then everyone would agree
it is a problem. Yet, for virtually anything that someone believes
is a problem, someone, somewhere, would say they think it isn't.
Notice from your own experience that others, at times, have seen
something as a problem ... and at the same time you have not. You
may even have seen it as something easy and enjoyable.
EXAMPLE: Rollercoasters - some people say they will never go on a
roller coaster ride - it would be too scary.
Yet, others are willing - even eager - to pay to enjoy the same
experience the first group is unwilling to have.
Notice, then, that what some people view as a problem is actually
wanted by others.
If someone wanted to go on a rollercoaster, they don't have a
problem with it ... they have a goal ... the goal of experiencing
the kind of exhilaration that others are afraid of.
To repeat, then - there is nothing, in and of itself, that is a
problem.
The mind is a problem-solving machine. It eats problems for break-
fast. Just about everybody's mind is bent on one thing, at all
costs - surviving. It invents "problems" to give it the illusion
that it has something to do - something to keep itself busy - so
that it experiences survival.
This may be difficult to accept, but think about this...when things
are going really well for you, what do you tend to start thinking?
"This can't last"..."the other shoe is going to drop"..."it can't
be this easy"...or "this is too good to be true"... all of which
are ways your mind "argues for" the point of view that there are
problems... and your mind loves to be right, doesn't it?
The way to dissolve "problems", then, is to look at the assumptions
you're making that are creating the point of view that there is a
"problem".
Those assumptions are rarely provably true. They are almost always
about something that MIGHT be a certain way, in the future... and
you don't want it to be that way.
How does it hurt you to believe in "problems"?
When you view something as a problem, there is a very strong
tendency to be far less resourceful, less relaxed and more limited
in our view of things - narrowing our experience instead of opening
it up, limiting our options - instead of expanding them by looking
at opportunities.
Simply put, you make poorer choices when you believe in "problems"
... and don't even see other, better choices you could have made.
Make a choice, now, to experiment with the view that there are no
problems, by looking at the assumptions you've made that contribute
to a "problem". Hold those assumptions up to the light of day,
notice how easy it is to let them go - and learn to live in a world
with no problems.
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About the Author:
George Copsey has been focused on living in a world with no
problems since discovering the Impossibility Transformer.
He has recently written the e-book, "Live In a World With No
Problems," to teach others how to dissolve their problems and
get results in the real world, in their work and life.
You can learn more about living in a world with no problems at:
http://www.live-in-a-world-with-no-problems.com
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To send feedback privately to the author, email George Copsey at
mailto:George@live-in-a-world-with-no-problems.com?subject=NoProblems
To send your comments about this article to
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=NoProblems
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COMMENTS & FEEDBACK
It's back-to-school time, and several students have written to ask
about accelerated learning, how to make learning fun and fast so
that more time will be available for other campus pursuits. Here
in a nutshell are Win Wenger's tips to students:
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Check out the following, free to you on the Project Renaissance
website:
1) Chapter One of "Beyond Teaching And Learning," at
http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/btal1.htm
2) Image-Streaming, at http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm and
the ebook,
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http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/guaran4.htm
3) Freenoting, in the "CPS Techniques" section,
http://www.winwenger.com/freenote.htm
4) Toolbuilder, also in "CPS Techniques",
http://www.winwenger.com/toolbld.htm
Let some of your response to this revolve around two basic
considerations -
* To learn something more effectively, find ways to increase your
neurological contact with it. What is the bandwidth of what you
want your conscious mind to store, retrieve and apply?
* Every awareness you've ever had in your lifetime, conscious or
unconscious, is apparently still with you in unconscious memory,
coloring your thoughts, actions, choices.... Nearly everything
you are trying to learn, ALREADY IS right there. If you can bring
conscious what you already know about a given subject or skill -
and this is remarkably considerable, by the way - then what
remains to be learned, by whatever means, integrates readily and
rapidly around that already-known core.
The rest is detail.
- Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Accelerate )
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LINKS
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* Project Renaissance homepage: http://www.winwenger.com
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