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1. Achieve Mastery In Anything

2. A have a friend who is an engineer for
a company that makes industrial
equipment.

3. Recently he took a trip to South Korea,
as a big company there was one of his
clients.

4. Before they let him in the facility, they
made him surrender all his pens,
phones, and papers.

5. They were extremely worried about
trade secrets, and didn't want him
copying anything.

6. One of the unknown drivers of the
industrial revolution was copyright
infringement.

7. Everybody was copying the crap out of
everybody else.

8. Even entire books were pirated and
sold for a nickel.

9. All kinds of industrial espionage was
taking place.

10. Ever since the first caveman decided it
might be easier to throw a rock at a
zebra instead of wrestle it to the
ground and beat it to death, humans
have been copying each other.

11. This is the heart of progress.

12. Somebody gets an idea and turns it
into a business.

13. Somebody else improves on it.

14. And on and on.

15. Pretty soon we go from running to
riding bicycles to riding on trains to
flying in planes.

16. The process of modeling is the heart of
NLP.

17. The whole set of language patterns
was modeled from the some of the
greatest therapists.

18. And then later the modeling process
itself became part of the process.

19. When you were a kid, and you wanted
to learn how to walk, you didn't invent
the process on your own.

20. You copied everybody around you until
you could reproduce what they did.

21. Unconsciously, this is natural.

22. Automatic.

23. When we get older, and we want to
consciously learn things, it's a bit more
involved.

24. If you wanted to copy somebody
playing the piano, you'd have to do
more than sit and move your fingers
around.

25. You'd have to copy their understanding
of music.

26. What all the notes mean.

27. One thing that is very helpful in any
learning endeavor is to measure your
progress.

28. Try something, see what happens,
then step back and take a look.

29. A great way to do this is journaling.

30. Write down the things you did, what
you learned, and what you can do next
to do even better next time.

31. It helps if you have some kind of
reference material to help.

32. A set of ideas of principles to go by.
You study them, then go out into the
world and apply them.

33. Then later at home, write down what
happened.

34. Then study them some more, think of
a different way to apply them based
on your experience, and go out and try
them again.

35. And keep repeating the process.

36. Do this every day, and pretty soon
you'll be an expert.

37. Of whatever it is you want to do.

38. Making money. Persuasion. Sales.
Relationships. Anything.

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