Irrational Beliefs

The Tutor Podcast

Your students are most likely going to have entrenched beliefs that may affect their confidence levels, it is your job as a tutor to defeat these beliefs to help them thrive! Join Neil as he discusses how throwaway comments made by others can affect your students, why you should give your students time to ‘gather data and the importance of instilling optimism within your students.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Your Students are likely to have entrenched beliefs and you must discover them and defeat them. This is one of the toughest obstacles to overcome in teaching.
• Your students may tell you everything they think they are not. They may believe they are not talented or artistic. Ask them to change their language and put things differently.
• Throwaway comments made by authority figures such as parents or teachers will often get deep inside the brain of your students. These comments will follow your students throughout their life if nothing is done about it.
• To undermine their intrusive thoughts, give your students time to collect the data. Consistently let them discover that your methods work and that things are easy to do. Be consistent but also flexible, and over time you will build up enough evidence that it will collapse those unhelpful beliefs.
• Above all else, you have to fire your students up with the emotions of optimism. Give them certainty and hope that things are possible as well as the possibility of achievement and fun. If you do that, they will stick around.

BEST MOMENTS

“Challenge their language, subtly, or overtly if necessary”

“you have to discover them and defeat them.”

“They’ve allowed that voice that seeks expression to die down.”

“Those unhelpful beliefs can't stay in the room if there is contradictory evidence.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

• Listen to The Tutor Podcast on the Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tutor-podcast/id1369191372)!
  • Build Your Online Course Week 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
  • Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
  • Who are They? (Know Your Punters): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/who-are-they-know-your-punters/id1369191372?i=1000478984529
• Read the Weird Things Guitarists Do book by Neil Cowmeadow, which is available now on Amazon. Link -https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Things-Guitarists-Do-Misconceptions/dp/1519026579/
• Contact Neil via this website - com!

ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years of experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

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