A few years ago a friend of mine texted me and said: "Hey, I can now play the guitar!"
"OK... Why are you telling me this?"
"Because yesterday I couldn't!"
The discussion when on, and it turned out that he was trying to learn the instrument but was making no progress until he had an interesting dream, and the next day his fingers were flying across the fret board hitting all the right notes.
I was very skeptical about this, but he kept insisting that he had a "download" and now he had the skill of playing the guitar.
It felt like the Matrix movie, where Neo opens his eyes and says: "I know kung-fu!"
I was reminded of this "incident" when Inelia and Larry taught the class "Super-Charger Learning" - how to learn things fast through mapping.
One of my superpowers is learning. I enjoy the process of it, the discovery, the "aha!" moments, but there are times when I do wish I could just download a skill and apply it immediately or at least shorten the time it takes to absorb it. So I was very excited about this class.
And, it did not disappoint.
How I wish my younger self had access to this when I was still studying at the University!
Back to super charged learning and mapping, have you ever heard the saying "copy the greats?" If you did, I bet you it wasn't in school! I have heard it last year, at the age of 38. What that phrase means is that if you want to get good at something, then a fast way to do it is to copy how the masters are doing it.
Yesterday, at the Shaman-Shack I helped to do the dishes. I was doing them by hand and someone suggested I should put them in the dishwasher. I didn’t know how to use that, and instead of sitting down and reading the manual from cover to cover, I asked for help!
So Larry showed me, and in about 30 seconds I became an expert dishwasher. And I won't forget about it because he had a very funny way of teaching it.
Accelerated learning is very practical and can be applied to learning guitar, a mystical skill, or how to do the dishes. I make this point because one of the marketing classes I studied said: “do not ever use the word ‘learn’ in your emails or nobody will ever read them.” The reason for this advice was that learning was a painful process that we were glad to be done with once school was over.
Don’t let this firewall stop you, check out the class, it is one of my favorites!
Bonus for early birds, who get it in the next two weeks, they will also get for free the "Mining Timelines" class which is related to the skill of learning.
In Joy/Light/Love
- Ilie