Sunday, May 06, 2007

To become a master, you must teach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJ5sHOGZv4

"You don't get to deal with the man to start with. You gotta prove yourself against his students first!"

Just amazing.

I often refer to the art of wealth or success as "mental kung fu" but it's perhaps more accurate to say that it's "mental aikido."

There are a lot of authors who offer "magic tricks" that supposedly can help people achieve success and financial freedom, yet it's doubtful people will succeed unless they adopt the serious mindset of a student who calmly yet desperately wants to become a master. Steven Seagal is an example of such a serious mind. At age 16, he moved to Japan to learn everything he could about aikido, and subsequently opened aikido schools in that country!

Another insight I want to share with you is that it's not information or even intelligence that is power, but integration of both information and intelligence into a lethal mental reflex system. Imagine that your mind is engaged in "aikido" practice or combat, on a daily basis. Your integration level refers then to how thoroughly your mind has assimilated your education, experience, knowledge, etc. so that your mind reacts with lightning speed to anything that enters your perception through your senses.

The best way to integrate all your knowledge into a powerful system of thought, is to package it into a workshop and then deliver that workshop as often as you can. Every time you deliver a workshop, your knowledge passes through your entire being and comes out of your mouth, and this very exercise -- in addition to bringing you income from workshop participants -- makes you more fluent in your knowledge. That is, more masterful and more powerful.

As you become more fluent in what you know and intellectually master, you create for youself an intellectual self-defense system that, like Steven Seagal's automatic reflexes, can easily subdue any hostile ideas or feelings that come your way to harm you.

Today more than ever people need "intellectual self-defense" training or systems, because every day, they are deceived by all kinds of organizations, people and agendas. The only constant in society, as you know, is deception. That's why mental training -- which leads to the rare ability to resist and overcome foreign influence -- is so critical if one is to achieve success.