The serial entrepreneur has many different experiences and those experiences guide us in the choices we make. Our experience tends to hamper the learning process as we have a natural tendency to skip over parts that we believe are not that important, or we may already know.
We look at titles and determine that we don't need to pay attention to that part, or we don't follow a lesson plan laid out because we think that we have more knowledge than the person giving the lesson on a particular subject, but the reality is that when we skip the parts we know, we miss the details that we don't know.
It is all about Organized Knowledge
The saying "Knowledge is Power" is really not a true statement according to Napoleon Hill and I happen to agree with. The statement should really be "Organized Knowledge is Power". The reason for the difference falls to reasoning that if you take all the knowledge and apply it in a common sense order, you will get the result that you want. Knowledge without putting it into a common sense order is just knowledge and provides little use.
Training and athletes
When an athlete trains for the Olympics, they spend thousands of hours and many years doing the same thing over again. They don't skip a process because they already know it, they do it over and over until the day they enter competition. At is at that point, the few seconds of perfection that they get the results that they have dedicated their life to making work.
The Reading Lesson
Recently, I adopted a 7 year old boy. A huge realization was made as I was helping him do is homework. As he made a mistake reading a sentence, I had him correct the word, but not go back and read the entire paragraph again. No matter how many times we corrected the words he struggled with the story, but then I changed tactics and had him go back and start the paragraph over. I don't know if it was an understanding of what came before the word or if it was a willingness to just pay attention so he did not have to continue reading the paragraph over, but his reading dramatically improved!
The Turning Point
This section is about Turning Points and how they make the most impact in our lives. It is the Turning Point that we turn failures into temporary defeats and we define the future of our lives. You would think that the adoption was the big turning point in my life, but the real Turning Point came at the point of changing the way I was teaching him to read. The real lesson was not for him, it was for me. I benefited from his lesson.
Turning Point is a Club-SBENCO members section. This is a great opportunity for Master Mind conversation where others may share their Turning Points as well making us stronger in our business and in our lives.
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