Tell Me Something New?

Why Some Folks Just Don’t Get It

Gertrude Stein Said…

“There aint no answer, there aint going to be any answer.

There never has been an answer, and that’s the answer.”

We’re much more positive –

“There is a perfect answer, there has always been a perfect answer.

You are going have the perfect answer. And it all comes-together

perfectly - five-minutes before you cash-in-your-chips.”

Stop waiting, and play the cards you were dealt – ‘and that’s the answer’.”

Barriers

1. The Critical-Logical leap: “School is so-o boring, tough, and about

stuff I’ll never use anyway – like math. I hate school”

2. The Emotional-Intuition leap: “I don’t get it, it’s over my head, I’m

not Einstein, and who-cares anyway. I hate my life!”

3. The Critical-Judgment leap: “Too hard – too-stupid – and I quit. I hate

my parents!”

It works just as negatively with – “I hate my boss! – “I hate my ‘significant-other!” or “I hate my damn job!”

Coda: Our learning ‘attitude’, state-of-mind and mood, is 51% of all learning.

The secret and rest of it - is…

a) being non-judgmental about the material and ourselves.

b) knowing WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me?) before starting.

c) having a relaxation-strategy to not use stressful-effort!

d) replacing our ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts), with

APTs (Automatic Positive Thoughts), about the material and

ourselves. “It’s important to me, and I am getting it one-bit-

at-a-time.”

You all know that “resistance” destroys a positive learning-mood; and

your rapport with the instructor and other speedlearners is ‘emotionally’

satisfying, and actually enlarges our comfort-zone.

The Law of As-If

Many of you have heard of the Law of As-If, but just ‘knowing’ something

doesn’t cut it.

Putting this law into practice changes our behavioral experiences, and

improves our daily lives.

The Law of As-If is the brainchild of Professor William James of Harvard,

back in the 1890’s, and still wins the gold.

It’s easy to understand, and simple to use. It says: Act as-if, think as-if, and feel

as-if you have already achieved your goal, and your attitude makes learning

comes as easy-as-pie.

Here’s why – the learning of knowledge and skills requires a combination of

our prefrontal cortex (higher left-brain thinking), and our amygdala (right-

brain emotional, pattern-recognition skills).

Logic, reason, and linear analysis alone, does not create long-term memory.

The extra ingredient to create mouth-watering smells and taste in the pie

we are baking - is feeling-and-emotions. One without the other is a half-baked

idea.

To produce left-and-right brain integration – in-sync – requires invoking

Professor James’ law of running your brain with mental-movies of your

burning-desire, together with ‘associations’ between new ideas and long-term

memories in your brain.

“It’s easy, I’m getting it, and I feel good about Speedlearning 100 and myself.”

Nothing happens with new knowledge and skills until you start to use it

every day in the real-world. This is not a rehearsal for life – it’s all there is.

Here’s Your Model

Step 1: Set the mood and get relaxed before you begin learning: sit-down,

feet flat, and close your eyes for a two-minute BI™ (Behavioral Intelligence

strategy.

Step 2: Inhale deeply from your belly-button, hold it for a count of five, and

slowly exhale. Focus on your breathing patterns and ignore your Monkey-

Mind’s stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Do it three-times in a loop.

Step 3: See on the movie-screen of your mind you winning your specific

heart’s desire – getting an ‘A’ on the exam, being offered the promotion,

opening the envelope and seeing the raise in your check, or getting a ‘yes!’

from that new account.

Step 4: Feel that surge of emotion – a flush of joy and happiness, and smile,

a wide Duchenne-smile exercising the muscles of your eyes and mouth - wide

because you own a successful strategy you can use again-and-again.

Step 5: Hear in your mind – “It’s easy, I’m getting it, and I feel good about

myself.” A specific one is – “Every day in every way - with help –

I’m a Speedlearner, and getting better-and-better.”

Repeat it five-times in a loop – and ‘know and expect it’.

Step 6: Before you open your eyes, and get back to your learning-routine –

keep that big-smile on your puss, and mentally hear-say-and believe –

“And it is so!” – enthusiastically.

That’s your learning strategy.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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