“Understand your motivation type - whether you move toward success or away from failure, toward love or away from rejection, toward power or away from loss of significance”
About Wyatt Woodsmall
NLP master trainer and behavioral modeler whose work focuses on accelerated learning and modeling excellence — extracting the structure of expert performance for replication. Cited by Eben Pagan as a longtime mentor in skill modeling.
Relevant Clips10
- Teaching▶ 35:27
Know Whether You Move Toward Goals or Away From Fear
Understand your motivation type - whether you move toward success or away from failure, toward love or away from rejection, toward power or away from loss of significance
- Teaching▶ 6:44
Six Sermons — Toward and Away Across Power, Affiliation, Achievement
The six sermons framework addresses toward and away from motivations for power, affiliation, and achievement to speak to all people effectively
- Teaching▶ 10:49
Mirror Customer Language to Earn Instant Credibility
If you can describe a person's problem better than they can, they automatically and unconsciously credit you with knowing the answer
- Teaching
Pre-Selection Always Beats Training for Getting the Right Prospects
Pre-selection will always beat training - it's better to choose the right prospects than to try to train yourself to sell to anyone
- Teaching▶ 5:31
Kolb's Four Learning Styles Reduce Miscommunication
The four learning styles framework from Harvard's David Kolb dramatically increases understanding and decreases miscommunication
- Teaching▶ 11:40
Power Affiliation Achievement — The Strongest Why Motivators
The most powerful 'why' motivations connect to power, affiliation, and achievement—both toward and away from versions of each.
- Teaching▶ 3:54
Describe Their Problem Better Than They Can
When you can describe someone's problems better than they can, they automatically assume you know the solution
- Teaching▶ 6:55
People Act for Their Reasons Not Yours — Understanding Values Ends Conflict
People do things for their reasons, not your reasons - understanding others' values solves most conflicts
- Teaching▶ 1:27
The Word I Creates Limiting Self-Definitions
The word 'I' is dangerous because everything you say after it defines and limits you.
- Teaching▶ 2:25
Two Keys to Starting Any Habit: Start Now, Don't Deviate
The two keys to starting any habit are to start now and don't deviate