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One of the hardest things I have ever encountered is hard because of my weakness of mental representation.
I do have the capacity open, but I have never used it consciously. I have been looking at myself as if the only path to any place is the path of the bumbling idiot, the meandering path. The path I’ve always taken. I even bragged about it… ugh.
And no matter how many courses, workshops, programs, I have done before, it has taken three decades to where I am now.
It’s taken three decades to get how to design a path to winning.
How to design a path to actually get that any specific, measurable result in time needs.
That the path needs to be broken up to several smaller and distinct projects (each with a specific measurable result in time, SMT). Maybe not even in the right order!
That a bigger project requires someone to do the small projects first if someone ever wanted to succeed. Succeed without getting overwhelmed. Without dropping steps, or coming up with a poor result by creating something that is missing elements that are crucial for success.
And interestingly I have done that exactly that way… but I didn’t know it. Didn’t realize it until I distinguished it.
When I went from architect to publisher, owning a publication that made enough money to live on with its first issue…
- I learned how printing works… hands on, by volunteering in a print shop.
- I learned how typesetting and layout is done by volunteering to do it myself
- Volunteered my services to see how writing reviews works and how writing language influences its effect
- Offered to deliver the magazines for someone else’s magazine to see how it is distributed, what is the mood about it, how people use it.
- I did the layout, ad design of someone else’s magazine for free. A learning experience.
- Oh, and of course, sold advertising. That is what paid me, my bills, etc. Selling.
We could say that I didn’t see what I did… I went through it blindly, unseeing.
And did most of my projects just as unseeing as that one.
I didn’t see, I didn’t look at it as a process.
No distinction.
What woke me up, what opened my eyes to see is participating in a 5-day challenge. I signed up for it and participated in it. Did the assignments to the best of my abilities. And started to see results. So then I signed up to the course that teaches how to do 5-day challenges.
The leader of the challenge and the course is a Russian woman who has a degree in educational/instructional design. Holly shit, I hadn’t even know there was such a discipline.
I looked and experienced what she includes and at what pace. How she asks for implementation. How she uses prizes.
It has been a potentially life changing experience… Potentially. Life changing ONLY if I manage to actually do exactly what she does. Not easy with my historical attitude of meandering. Not easy with ‘I’ll do it my way‘ attitude.
So I am now practicing and learning to put what she does…
…(not what she necessarily say she teaches) into practice, so my students get more results faster with this new way of teaching. Bite size results, but it is still faster that before.
This reminds me of the Theta Healing lady… whatever her name was. She taught people a process how to connect. But what she actually did to connect wasn’t even similar… Thanks to my clearsensar ability and for turning the audio off, I could tell the difference. Ugh. I have never wanted to be like her… Although it seems every teacher of a skill is like her.
Switching gears…
here is a great illustration of ‘mental representation’ lacking. This very short video. Also funny…
The famous chef Gordon Ramsey prepares Pad Thai, or his ‘mental representation’ of what a Pad Thai is. And he asks a Thai chef to critique it. Priceless.
I have had the same exact experience as the Thai chef… with all the dishes indigenous to Hungary.
For example Gulyás
For example Gulyás is a deceptively easy dish to make. Simple, but unless you know what it is supposed to taste, what it is supposed to look like, your results will be ‘not Gulyas’…
I can only show the pictures… but the taste! It is not Gulyas.
And it is the same is with everything.
Love-making. Joke telling. Doing a presentation. Running. Literally everything.
Unless the end result is clear. Seen with nothing hidden. No element hidden. No attitude hidden, no detail hidden. And if any of those are hidden then the process you make up — like that celebrity chef — will result in a ‘not that’ final result.
Disappointing. You did everything you SAW was needed… but the issue is with what you didn’t see.
And how you do ANYTHING is how you do EVERYTHING.
So here I am going over each video, once, twice, and the tenth time…
…and every time I see something I hadn’t seen before.
Here is something that needs to be said:
unless what you want is worth it for you to go over it ten times, it isn’t worth it for you, is it?
You remain on the surface.
And you don’t know why you don’t enjoy life.
The enjoyment comes from the deep. The profound, the aspect that is invisible and unreachable to most.
It’s not that you are lazy, or not necessarily.
It is that you grew up in a worldview of shallow. Of instant gratification. Where ‘more, better, and different‘ is the goal. Not deeper, richer, more profound.
And unless you change your worldview through experiencing the joy of depth, you spread yourself thin, and life is unfulfilling.
Like American snacks… yummy but not fulfilling.
Next, let’s look at these issues, mental representation, from the vantage point of the Sight capacity.
What is happening when you THINK you looked but your results are not Pad Thai.
Or your result is not a winning business. Not good health. Or not whatever you hoped you would get. What you get is that what you did didn’t keep the Sight capacity on…
When you THINK you looked, but you didn’t. You looked in the mind… and that is not where to look.
When you grab what you saw on the surface (it’s always mind!)… That shows your unwillingness to be with the discomfort of not knowing, of not seeing.
So obviously your core issue is that unwillingness to be with discomfort. Your TLB.
Looking to see is not comfortable.
And if you are unwilling to look because of the discomfort, you are relegating yourself to only seeing the surface, to always saying ‘I know‘, And to being scarcely on the map of being a sentient being. The map of being conscious. To being in the game to become worth a damn.
Oh, and let me not forget: you gave up on joy. You have up on fulfillment. On enjoyment. Because the surface can only give you glee… not enjoyment. Not enjoying life. Not loving yourself. And not power.
So you force… Please look again at the face of the Thai chef, the lifted nostrils… Disdain. Yeah. Maybe even pity. Disgust. Yeah…
So if you are or want to be in the game of activating your Sight capacity, use it also to raise your TLB.
So if you don’t want that facial expression to accompany your life, if you don’t want to that to be the backdrop… If you want to raise your TLB, you can get a two hour recording of a recent workshop session where we set out to raise the TLB one way, but the session went in an interesting way no one expected it to go… and yet it is a perfect way. A perfect way to see the attitude that is underneath a high TLB.
Raise your TLB
