Final Concepts: Before the Leap

The final two concepts I had to learn before I just took the leap was a training scale and the four steps to learning. First, the training scale is comprised of two things. One side is the thoughts, the other is the actions. Most individuals believe that this has to be balanced. What I mean is that you do as much action as thinking. However, this is not true. Thoughts is 99.9% of anything you do. Napoleon Hill said it this way "What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." So, what this means is if you can think of something you can be do or have and bring yourself to the point of believing that you are going to get it without any doubt you will get it.   



I will go more in depth on this in later posts.

The final concept is the four steps to learning. I came across these a second time in a book called The New Psycho Cybernetics. The four steps to learning are:

• Unconscious Incompetence: You don't know what you don't know.
• Conscious Incompetence: You know that you don't know.
• Conscious Competence: You know but you have to think about what you are doing. For example: most people put pant on one leg at a time pull them up fasten them then go. But if you remember when you first learned how to put them on you had to think in steps I put my left leg in first, then right leg, then pull them up, then fasten them.  
• Unconscious Competence: You know with out thinking. Muscle memory or some would call autopilot. For example: You just put on your pants without thinking about the steps.

These steps really opened my eyes to that I am not that smart. I actually dumb for thinking that I knew everything. One thing that these concepts, who do you listen to, teach ability index, training scale, and the four steps to learning, have taught me is to never stop learning and that I am not that smart.