Know Can Do!

Put Your Know-How into Action

by Paul J. Meyer , Dick Ruhe , Ken Blanchard

Number of pages: 115

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

BBB Library: Personal Success

ISBN: 9781576754689



About the Authors

Paul J. Meyer : He is the founder of Success Motivation Institute, Inc. He is

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Dick Ruhe : Ruhe is a senior consulting partner for the Ken Blanchard Companies,

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Ken Blanchard : Ken, PhD, is one of the most influential leadership experts in

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Editorial Review

In Know Can Do!, bestselling author Ken Blanchard, Success Motivation Institute founder Paul J. Meyer, and ace motivational speaker and consultant Dick Ruhe use a story about an author with questions and an entrepreneur with answers to offer a simple and systematic approach for learning more efficiently and using that knowledge to make lasting changes.  People who have mastered learning are free to be creative and make big things happen. In fact, John F. Kennedy once remarked that leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. This powerful book will help people at all levels develop the mind-set and the skill set to achieve extraordinary results. 

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"Know Can Do! teaches people at all levels how to apply life-changing techniques to reach their fullest potential." - Achieve Max

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Wisdom to Share

We know that students desperately need to do lots of meaningful reading and writing, and that this does not necessitate inordinate amounts of paper grading. Let’s stop making excuses for not doing it.

It’s important to remember, though, that even with a positive mindset, repetition is required. It’s interesting that repeating something six times seems to be the secret to spaced repetition.

Most people can’t overcome negative conditioning. They achieve only a small percentage of what they could, because they accept too little too soon, and everything is filtered through their negative thinking and their closed, judgmental mindset.

Negative thinking is much more prevalent among people than positive thinking.

People are often too negative, which gives them an inadequate filtering system.

To totally master something, it’s imperative that we bathe in it until it becomes a part of us.

There’s nothing wrong with reading books and attending seminars. These are fundamental learning tools. The problem comes when we expose ourselves to new knowledge all the time with no pause for integrating our new know-how and putting it into action.

Once you understand these three reasons, you’ll be able to help them bring about wanted change in their own lives by using more of the knowledge available from books, audios, videos, and seminars.

The third reason is lack of follow-up. Changing habits or behavior requires a real concentrated effort.

The second reason is negative filtering. People have a dysfunctional processing system.

There are 3 reasons why people don’t learn and start doing what they know. The first is information overload. They suffer from an overdose of knowledge.

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