Study Coach

This is the second installment of my distasteful self-quoting hahaha.

“Think not only why things don’t work but how you can make them work.” – Ernie Aragon, Jr. 

There’s nothing wrong with figuring out why certain things don’t work.  That’s part of learning and discovery.

However, there is a point when it becomes an excuse.

I’ve had life and study coaching experiences where I was giving some suggestions for my coachee to try out and the coachee would give me a lot of reasons why that suggestion won’t work without actually giving it a try first.

I make another suggestion and that person would come up with even more reasons why that idea can’t work.

I was coaching another guy on how to improve his memory using the Power Memory system I developed.  After the session, I heard him talking with his girl friend that the techniques were not applicable to complex biochemical pathways that they were taking up in med school.  

He continued to list down other areas he thought my Power Memory would not work in.

When I got home, I took out a medical book and thought how I could make the system work for biochemical pathways.  

Within ten minutes, I was able to remember the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle, a pathway I wasn’t able to commit to memory in college in spite of taking it up in ten of my subjects.

I got back to the guy and showed him how to do it.  You can’t imagine how surprised he was.

Why didn’€™t he find the solution?  It is because he focused to much on the problem.  He magnified his doubts and skepticism.  It was his mindset.

My mindset was to look for solutions for problems.  Our mind tends to find things we look for.  

You look for obstacles and you find them.  You look for solutions and you find them. 

That was how as a study coach I developed Power Memory.  

The memory systems are age-old since the days of Aristotle.  I’ve heard many criticisms even from psychologists on why these techniques are not effective or have limited effectiveness.  That was their mindset.

Mine? I asked how I can make acquiring skills easier.  I asked how I can improve the techniques so that they are not just good for parlor stunts and everyday stuff but also for hard academic stuff.  

Power Memory was born and has spread throughout the Philippines and is going around the world. Why?  Because the right questions were asked.