What if this works?
The code is not affirmation, visualization or the setting of goals it’s the portion of each one of those that actually does the work of creation when anyone of those concepts actually accomplishes the achievement that’s hoped for. So, you can pronounce affirmations until you’re blue in the face, set goals and repeat them forever, or visualize a Corvette in your garage until your garage rots and falls apart, but until you apply the code that makes everything work you don’t have the formula for success/creation.
Is it possible that it’s much more simple than what people think? Back home on the farm my daddy used to say to me, his teenage son, “talkin’ don’t do it”. What he meant by that, was that words don’t teach people anything. If you think about it we human beings are doers but not very good listeners and visualizers.
Think about it. In school, why do chemistry classes always have “labs” where the students practice what their instructor has been lecturing about.
Why do anatomy classes have “labs” were the students actually disassemble, dissect, the critters their “learning” the anatomy of?
Why do doctors after many “words” of educational lectures and “book learning” spent years of “residency” before their considered qualified to “practice” on their own? (And they still call what they do “a practice”?)
Why do craftsmen, electricians, plumbers and millwrights go through years of “apprenticeships” before they are considered “experienced” enough to do their work without the oversight of a journeyman?
(When I was a supervisor for maintenance shop at General Motors we had an apprentice electrician who, two weeks before his apprenticeship was complete, crawled in under a punch press, failed to “lock it out”, turn off the electrical feed to the machine and literally lock it so it could be turned on, stuck his screwdriver into a live 440 V circuit, burned the screwdriver in half sending the charge up his arm blowing out his elbow and putting them in the hospital for a week. Get two years added to his apprenticeship. In this case even almost 4 years of “experience” didn’t teach him what the talkin’ and reading of his apprentice classes hadn’t taught.)
Does this mean that “experience” is the only way we can truly learn?
Here’s an interesting thought that has challenged theologians from time to time. If that is where we want to be, whatever happens to you, why don’t we just skip all the garbage of life and go there. We can make a logical case for knowing that we would have everything right without all of life’s hassle. Or, is it possible that we humans can only truly learn by experience?
Think about the fellow that went to Las Vegas and wanted to play roulette but didn’t have any money. He came up with the ingenious idea of just bedding in his mind. Unfortunately, he lost his mind.
Will Rogers, the cowboy philosopher, had an interesting perspective on experience. He said, essentially, “a master can learn by reading about the experience of others. A wise man can learn by observing the experiences of others. However most of us just have to Pee on the electric fence. (You have to ask the question of how much experience it took before the “wise man” could learn by observing and the “master” could learn by reading.)
