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Here's what you need to know
about anything that you want to learn.
It is called the
Guaranteed Success Formula, and there are
four steps:
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Study / Make Corrections
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Take Action
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Get Feedback
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Repeat and NEVER GIVE UP
HINT: Make sure you have
taken enough action to get enough feedback before you consider making
corrections and changing your destination plan.
FOUR PHASES OF LEARNING
For each thing you want to
learn, there are four phases of the learning journey:
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1) Unconscious Incompetence |
You don't know what you don't
know how to do.
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2) Conscious Incompetence |
You know that you don't know
what to do and
how to do it.
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3) Conscious Competence |
You learn and practice getting good
at it through study, effort and discipline. |
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4) Unconscious Competence |
You are good at it without trying. |
THREE STEPS FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK.
As you are learning, you will
take three steps forward, and two steps back, and in the process, you'll
discover what you didn't know.
This should be considered a
tremendous "win" because not only do you have a "net gain" of a step forward,
but you have also learned what you need to learn to take the next
step forward.
(It is at this point that most
unsuccessful people see the two steps back in a disempowering way. They see them
as failures rather than as discoveries of what to learn, and then they quit.)
ENJOY THE STUMBLE
Make falling down fun.
Play with it. Lighten up. And most importantly, learn to fall forward!
If you fall down, don't stay down. Pick yourself up and dust yourself off
as quickly as possible.
Understanding that this is normal and natural, putting all your
attention on the net gain and what you've learned, and then using
that to moving forward.
WHAT TO DO
Whenever you have a setback,
rather than taking it personally, ask yourself these three questions:
1) What worked?
2) What didn't work?
3) How can I make it better?
Learn from your mistakes.
Learn from your experiences (both good and bad). Focus on what Tony
Robbins calls CANI - "Continuous and Never-ending Improvement"
ACCELERATING YOUR JOURNEY
You can accelerate you journey
and make it more fun by making BOTH the stepping forward and the stepping backward
conscious, anticipating them and planning for them.
Make the two steps back
(learning) just as "planned" as the initial three steps forward.
Anticipate them, plan for them, and schedule time for them.
This will help you see them as
part of the journey, and to treat setbacks as an absolute win, as another step
you are taking toward your goals.
TEACHING OTHERS
After you've developed a basic
level of understanding or proficiency at a certain skill, you can take that to
the next level by teaching others what you have learned.
This will help you master your
knowledge and skill by seeing it from many different points of view.
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