In this video I’ll explain the tech­nique I used to get into the Okla­homa Pho­to­graphic Hall of Fame in my 70s, after tak­ing up pho­tog­ra­phy for the first time.

I’ll also explain how I intend to teach chil­dren this same tech­nique — so kids can bet­ter retain their nat­ural genius poten­tial and evolve into more intu­itive, more cre­ative, more self-assured adults.

Just watch the video and con­tinue read­ing below

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi every­one,

If you are watch­ing this video you are prob­a­bly very curi­ous about what I’ve pre­pared for your Chil­dren. Well, let me assure you that you are in a per­fect place and time, coz as promised yes­ter­day, I’m going to reveal all my secrets today.

But before i move on to this, I have an amaz­ing story to tell..

You remem­ber, in my last video, I talked about cre­ativ­ity and inspi­ra­tion and the Genius Dip and how kids lose this abil­ity as they get older. I also showed you my paint­ings and pic­tures and now I want to tell you the short story behind me becom­ing a pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher overnight.

The story goes back in time to 1988. I was doing a class about using more of the mind to pro­duce cre­ative results in San Diego when some­body chal­lenged me and said, “Prove it to us”. So I opened the floor to sug­ges­tions of how I can prove it to them… as long as it’s not some­thing like learn­ing the vio­lin which requires dex­ter­ity… you know, at my age and all.

So some­one threw out the idea of pho­tog­ra­phy. He chal­lenged me to be cre­ative with pho­tog­ra­phy. So I said, well, I like chal­lenges and said I’ll do it. So i bought a cam­era and went to my hotel. And I got into into a med­i­ta­tive state and thought about being a photographer.

And all of a sud­den, out of the blue, I see a guy with a cam­era and I imag­ine myself walk­ing up to him and I said, “Who are you?”. And he said, “I am a great pho­tog­ra­pher”. And so I said, “Teach me how to do pho­tog­ra­phy”. And I know this sounds weird but it really hap­pened exactly like that.

I heard the words, “Plant your­self”. I asked him to elab­o­rate. I hear, “Take a lot of pictures.”

Well, I opened my eyes and I thought, well okay, lets try. So I’m in San Diego so I decided to go to the Marina. I go down to the rocks and it’s slip­pery and I had no choice but to find firm ground and plant myself. So I thought, hmmm. Now I’ve to take a lot of pictures.

But I was think­ing, well, if I’m planted, I can’t move. How would I take a lot of pic­tures? So I take the cam­era and start swivel­ing while tak­ing a lot of pic­tures. I fig­ured one of the hun­dred pic­tures would be good.

So I process the pic­tures and go back to hotel and lay out all the pic­tures on the bed to pick the best one. And as I lay it out I start see­ing some­thing. It isn’t a hun­dred pic­tures any­more. It’s one huge pic­ture like you’ve never seen before. So I went out and bought a board and pasted all the pic­tures. And, yeah, the class was impressed when they saw it.

But that’s not where it ends. 6 months later the photo was hang­ing in the museum of the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy Hall of Fame in Okla­homa. And it’s still there.

What I’ve learnt is not only was I able to gen­er­ate flashes of inspi­ra­tion for pho­tog­ra­phy, but for a whole range of dif­fer­ent skills. This is my art work. I’ve also writ­ten a cou­ple of songs. I also own an inter­net busi­ness I started at 80 years of age that cre­ates a good resid­ual income for me. Yes, I got on the inter­net at 80. I’m prob­a­bly one of the old­est guys on YouTube!

An achieve­ment? Yes. But the sad thing is I did this at 78. Why did it take so long? And why is it tak­ing you so long?

Well, I’ve come to real­ize this is the wrong way to go about things. Really, kids should be learn­ing this while they are still young so that they never lose their cre­ativ­ity and stay per­pet­u­ally creative.

What is cre­ativ­ity though? It’s a very elu­sive word for many. Many just talk about it, but don’t know how to explain it.

Well, let me tell you. Cre­ativ­ity comes from one thing. It comes from the abil­ity to get ideas from the uni­ver­sal intel­li­gence. Now I know that might sound a bit of a rad­i­cal state­ment, but some of the great­est geniuses of our time agrees with that statement.

Edi­son said, “ideas come from space”. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Ideas come from outer space. What I want to teach kids to do is to har­ness infor­ma­tion from two sources: Intu­ition and Inspiration.

Intu­ition is that lit­tle voice in your head that helps guide you on the right path. Intu­ition tells you whether you should be friends with some­one or avoid that. If you’re lost, it acts as a com­pass. On a big­ger scale, it can be used to find your life’s pur­pose instead of going around in circles.

Now the next thing I want to talk about is inspi­ra­tion. Inspi­ra­tion is the spark of cre­ativ­ity. The sud­den flash of insight to com­pose a good piece of music, or to paint a pic­ture, or in my case, develop a new form of photography.

Now, what I found is… you don’t have to wait till you’re 78 to pro­duce cre­ativ­ity through intu­ition and inspiration.

Now imag­ine what would hap­pen if your kid could do this. Could he be the next Mozart or the next Edi­son. Could that flash of inspi­ra­tion lead them to not just com­pose a beau­ti­ful piece of music or paint a paint­ing, but to invent some­thing that ben­e­fits human­ity? To help them make bet­ter deci­sions in life? To help them live their life’s purpose?

Don’t let your kid wait to become an adult. To have to go through prob­lem after prob­lem after prob­lem, and then strug­gle through adult­hood in search of per­sonal devel­op­ment to find the cre­ativ­ity and intu­ition they lost.

Let them not lose this abil­ity in the first place. And this is what I want to do. This is my mis­sion in life.

I know you must be excited to know what I have in store for you, and I worked really hard to wrap things up yes­ter­day, which as you know was Children’s Day. So I don’t want to keep you on the edge of your seat for much longer. I’m just going to let the cat out of the bag right now.

I have put together a course for chil­dren that will help them keep their cre­ativ­ity and thus their full poten­tial for genius BEFORE they lose it. All the tech­niques… all 50 years of my expe­ri­ence that have helped hun­dreds of thou­sands of adults regain their magic… I am now mak­ing avail­able to reach out to chil­dren for the FIRST time.

I call it… My Inner Magic. Tomor­row I will be send­ing you a short pre­sen­ta­tion on the details of My Inner Magic… so be sure to look out for it. It will have all the juicy details on what I have in store, to help chil­dren achieve their true poten­tial through intu­ition and inspiration.

Stay tuned. And have a blessed day.

INTRODUCING MY INNER MAGIC

I think you’re gonna like it.…

Because what I’ve put together is NOT some accel­er­ated learn­ing pro­gram that say, just teaches your child to speed read. It is NOT some run-off-the-mill mem­o­riza­tion tech­niques to sim­ply turn some­one into a walk­ing ency­clo­pe­dia. It is NOT some cre­ative expres­sion pro­gram to teach your child to paint by numbers.

What I’ve put together IS NOT a program

It is a never seen before solu­tion for chil­dren. It is an all encom­pass­ing solu­tion for chil­dren to attract what they want in life just by know­ing how to use the nat­ural tal­ents that they were born with… before they lose it.

It’s the same secret i used when I was chal­lenged by my class to become a photographer…in one week­end.. a chal­lenge that not only did I ful­fill, but one that got me into the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy of Fame

Stay tuned.