Unless it’s accurate knowledge… i.e. true, tested, from an accurate source.
Unless you know what you learned… unless you know what you know… you didn’t learn anything.
And unless what you leaned changes your behavior, inside or outside, nothing will change.
All learning is behavior modification, modifying behavior to become more fit to life, to play the game of life better, for yourself and for the human race.
As a coach, unless I modified your behavior, I didn’t do anything.
So how do you modify behavior?
The process starts with an insight. The more energy is in the insight, the more energy you can or are willing to bring to the insight, the easier it will be to make the modification. Continue reading “Knowledge is not enough… what’s missing?”
I am yet to hear a Westerner, or an Easterner use the word: correction. The world, nowadays, is into “fixing”. 1
Fixing is an ugly world, immediately signaling what the speaker sees, that there is something wrong and it urgently needs to be fixed, because it is wrong that it is. Reactive.
But when emotions run high, the cone of vision narrows, your intelligence plummets, and stupid as the stupid does, your fixing creates new problems, that are the next thing to fix.
If you looked, you would notice that you want to do things out of order…
…for example: fix something that you don’t understand what it is, you just KNOW that it’s wrong. Put the cart in front of the horse. Never bother to find the cause… the real cause of anything… the laws of nature.
You may be doing all the steps that can produce the results you want, but what happens if and when you are doing them out of order? Or you don’t give enough time to each step to perform its magic, out of greed or hunger or impatience?
This post, this audio is a little on the choppy side, because you are witnessing me entering the invisible and making new connections, connecting some dots. Brilliant if I may say so myself… š
Transcript:
Okay. alright, it’s Saturday. I just finished listening to today’s installment of the 5-Minute Mentor Series. This is one of the things I signed up to carry my consciousness around 360 degrees, and alter, with the help of consciousness, what it is that I do about my finances.
Why do I trust it? Because it’s done by the same person as the 67 Steps. The 67 Steps, whether it’s good or bad, it has revolutionized my life. I did all 67 for eight times. I have been doing it since February, two and a half years ago. Because of some slight lifestyle changes, I now prefer to do the five minute a day version.
There is an audio I recorded six years ago but it is as sharp as anything I do today… It is about how to live your soul’s purpose, and how to start, finally doing something substantial, worth being called your life’s work…
In this old audio I address something really important: your being, your attitude, at any moment, is correlated or very influenced, so much that it is given by the future you are heading for.
it’s really only what happened, small stuff. but the learning is tremendous
Transcript by LeGrande
10 Hours in the Emergency Room
Here I am again. Still in pain but with a cast on my arm.
Yesterday I spent ten hours at the emergency room. They took 30 X-rays. Out of the 10 hours, I waited for six and spent four inside. It was interesting because I had two completely opposing encounters.
One is I experienced myself delightful. That means I was full of delight despite the fact that I had to pee for hours and didnāt know where the bathroom was. And I was hungry because I didnāt have breakfast. I was hurting. They set the bones and gave me a lidocaine injection straight into my wrist. Ai-yi-yi…I wouldnāt wish that on my worst enemy!
Some of the context that allowed me to be delightful is āThis too shall pass.ā I didnāt see this miserable, painful or tedious experience as filling my future. It was happening now and I can deal with anything that has a limited duration. That is a very useful attitude to have because I think most of us are more unhappy, miserable, bored, lazy or procrastinating because we cannot see that the nature of the universe is change.
It means nothing is permanentāneither pain nor happiness. If itās not permanent, you will have thousands of opportunities to have it more, better, different, even strikingly different if you wish.
The main ingredient is this: there is nothing wrong, nothing needs to be fixedānot even the huge hospital bill they are going to give me. I am going to cross that bridge when I get there. I am going to negotiate a payment plan because their alternative plan is not getting paid at all. For a little while, Iām going to work to pay this bill which will probably be thousands of dollars based on the 30 X-rays they took and the six(!) doctors that saw me.
āThis too shall pass.ā That is the attitude you want to have.
What i don’t on the audio: good and bad… it will all pass. really
A difference between Christianity and Judaism is repentance
How this difference renders you ineffective in your life and how to change it
Transcription, again by the amazing legrande…
A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM IS REPENTANCE
One of the things I do is record really short segments with an idea or two. Because I hurt myself and canāt type, I set up this audio system so I can keep a presence on the internet for my audience. The interesting thing is much less people are actually opening the postsā¦which is weird. But I have a hunch that the people who do listen are getting more out of the audios than they used to get out of the articles.
I want to talk about something that Iāve been beating like a dead horseāand the results are quite similar. And that is attempting to change your mindset about what it takes to get something. Today Iām going to talk about how to benefit from the energies that I sold you. Because this is a principle that Iām going to share: āIf itās true anywhere, itās true everywhere.ā Which means if itās true for the audios, itās going to be true for my articlesā¦or for loveā¦or for going to university or going to theatre. Everywhere.
(Iām not used to doing audio blogs. If no oneās listening, itās hard for the words to come. Itās hard to be silently brilliant but itās also hard to be brilliant when no oneās listening)
Yesterday I went out to my daily walk. Two doors down from where I live, there is a park where people bring their dogs. I see a dude with two dogs and at some point, the dogs start towards me. One of themāa big oneājumps on me. I lost my balance. I think I tripped on my own leg and started to fall. To break my fall (because I was falling smack towards the curb), I held out my hand which is a no-no for me because I pretty much would rather die than not be able to work.
I broke my hand. I cut my arm and have this huge bruise on my foreheadĀābut no concussion. I will look funny for a couple of weeks but my head is okay. I had some major nausea afterwards (which indicates that it wasnāt that easy on my head).
I couldnāt fall asleep till 4 am or whatever it was. It was so painful. I decided twenty years of not taking headache medication was enough. I took some headache medicationĀ for my arm. I then I had the good idea to use a piece of wood to stabilize my arm. I didnāt go to a doctor. The owner of the dogs offered but I donāt have insurance. Going to the emergency room is out of my budget (I donāt know how much it costs but anything is beyond my budget).
So Iām hereāitās the next day. Iām already drinking my second cup of coffee. I am having lots of insights about not having use of my left arm for typing, making coffee, wearing any clothes, going to the bathroomā¦all very interesting.
One of the insights is “how you do anything is how you do everything.” That is pretty much about your attitude.
My attitude is I am 100% responsible for everything that happens to me. I wonāt press charges against the dog ownerāhe may be legally responsible but that is not my problem, thatās his. Itās my life and Iām going to take care of it.
That is my relationship to life, that I am responsible for all of itāwhich means it is my job to be well, no matter what happens to me. On the surface, I may not be well. I am in pain. I donāt have use of my left arm blah blah blah. Yet, I pretty much can do anything I need to do. Maybe not anything that I want to doĀāfor example, I canāt touch type because you need two hands for that. This morning, I used an Italian espresso machine. In order to use it, you need to look and see what part of your biology can replace another hand. Are you going to use your face, your chin, your thighs, your kneesā¦what are you going to do?! How are you going to make life seamless, even though something is taken from you? The interesting thing is the more skills you have in somethingĀāanything, the more skills you have in life. But when I watch people, they are not skilled in anything. They are not good at anything. Honestly. So why arenāt they good at anything? Because they never considered that taking something to the level of mastery is how they can be responsible for their life. They do things but they never consider practicing it or changing how they do it until they are masterful at it. It could be anything: how you change your bed sheets, how you do your laundry, how you chop onions, how you cook, how you make coffeeā¦anything. Because if something happens, you are shit out of luck because now you are completely unable to live life. This gist of what I want to say: the attitude of bringing excellence. Unless you take it to mastery, you donāt have anything.
For example, I used to have this workshopĀāthe StrengthsFinder workshop from āWhat Color is Your Parachute?ā It helped people to see what skills they already have so that they can build on that. You find skills through stories of projects that you were successful at and enjoyed doing. I worked with 30, 40 people and I havenāt found not even one person who really mastered any skill.
You are satisfied with so-so and of course, your results are so-so.
Your life is so-so.
You come to me hoping for a better life without changing your relationship to life. You donāt change your āhow you anything is how you do everythingā attitude.
Amazing.
They call the person who has some sense of how to do something a dilettante, which is a French word for amateur.
Dilettante: a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Dilettante is a state of development where you donāt put enough energy, enough care or enough conscious learning to become an expert. And then you want to live the life of an expert with a dilettante skillset.
Thatās what I wanted to say. Iāll be making more of these audio blogs throughout the day.
note: it i skill-finder, not strength finder. fundamental difference
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