When you were a little kid, learning was easy.
Since it happened automatically, you didn’t have to think about it.
You just kept trying to do something until you could do it.
This is how all humans learned, until very recently.
When we try this as adults, it’s called “modeling.”
Meaning we see somebody doing something we’d like to do, and then try and copy them.
Unfortunately, it’s not always so easy.
Because not only do you have to DO what they do, you also have to NOT DO what they DON’T do.
This is the missing ingredient if you’ve been trying to “learn” from gurus who promise to “show you step by step to get what I’ve done.”
Now sometimes, this is easy. If you’re copying somebody’s cake-baking technique, for example.
Because when YOU operate on the ingredients, they will respond the same way they do when THEY operate on the ingredients.
It doesn’t matter WHO puts the batter in the oven. So long a the batter is prepared the same way, and the oven is the right temperature, you’ll get the same cake.
But often times we’re copying people who have been INTERACTING with a certain environment. And unless YOU are interacting in the same environment in the same way, you’ll get a different result.
Let’s say you wanted to study acting. And you copied the precise movements speech patterns of the most famous stage actors around.
So much so you were EXACTLY the same.
But unless you could reproduce the same audience, with the same expectations, you’ll get a different result.
It’s sort like that old saying, “You can’t step in the same river twice.”
Only it’s WAY more complicated. No matter how much you model somebody, you’ll ALWAYS be operating within a slightly different environment.
Does this mean modeling is useless? Not at all.
It just means that you need to model a meta-skill, rather than surface skill.
What does this mean?
Let’s say you memorized a boxing match from Mike Tyson. You copied his EXACT punches, at the EXACT time.
Obviously, this would NEVER work. Because all the punches and blocks would be based SOLELY on what the other guy was doing.
Paying attention to feedback is the missing ingredient.
No matter HOW WELL you copy some “step by step” procedure, if you don’t pay attention to feedback, AND adjust accordingly, you’re doomed.
But paying attention to feedback is easy. It’s natural. It’s how you learned to walk. If you leaned forward too much, you’d fall on your face. And your inherent feedback-response mechanism told you to not lean forward so much next time.
So long as you are ALWAYS open to feedback, and you are willing to adjust, you’ll always get better.
And then you’ll learn the secret about things like learning Covert Hypnosis.
You’ll NEVER FINISH learning. Because you can always get better based on the feedback you get.
Compared to others, who sit in a seminar and listen, or read a book and think they are DONE.
YOU will always be improving, learning and getting better.
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