THE SCIENCE OF LIFE-SKILL DEVELOPMENT

The "Basic Life-Skills" that will propel you forward in life to achieving the happiness you want are the skills of:
1. Learning - effectively and quickly.
2. Thinking (the Master Skill)
3. Problem-Solving (includes great decision-making skills)
4. Power And Wisdom

The first three are necessary to attain the 4th, where you'll have the most powerful life-skill of all.

But first we must begin to develop of the skill of learning.

And, in doing so, we must ask what is the most effective and the quickest way to learn what we need to learn. How do we become "geniuses" at what is most important.

In The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle, he provides great examples of how genius was attained and proves it just doesn't happen naturally, even with Mozart (at 6 years old playing brilliantly).

On The Site*, the piece called "Developing Life-Skills Effectively Is Simple" summarizes what it takes to "arrive" at genius in life (or at least high competence!). (See linking instructions below.)

And within those two sources, there's the good news and there's the bad news.

The good news is that incredibly great things are achievable if you use "the process."

The bad news is that the process does require a relative minimum number of hours and it must be done with some rigor in terms of following a program that is systematic and only uses real experts to learn from - you can't just go through life randomly learning from experiences and other non-expert people or you'll never get very good at life.

And you'll have to use the Principle of Completion, where you tie up all the fine points and finish learning, much like a superior athlete like Tiger Woods finishes learning things at a more complete and thus higher level.

And there is a reason that "the process" works. That reason lies in the fact that when the brain develops neural circuits to do the task desired, a myelin wrapping that is much like insulation increases in thickness each time something related to the task is done. That insulation is like the wrapping around internet broadband wiring in that it allows the signals to be stronger and faster and much more efficient.

And we can increase the speed of the development by increasing the motivation (see the article), the intensity of thinking, the adjustments that are made by making more errors and figuring things out and other non-obvious factors.

It is through this process, and only this process, that we can overcome old habits that have been repeated over and over to establish their own protective myelin - so we can't just wish the old habits away or assume that they won't dominate when we try to change a behavior, or we will run into the failures we have when old habits ruin our attempts at change.

Using this process and these more effective elements and ways of learning will dramatically improve the quality of our lives and is the only real way to assure that we can be happy, I assert.

Read the article and follow the process to the level of life skill needed to produce the level of life you want.

Click on the title of this blog piece to go to The Basic Life-Skills section, then read the full article "Developing Life-Skills Effectively Is Simple" - then follow "the process!"

*"The Site" is www.thelifemanagementalliance.com