The Secrect to Improvement – the Mastery is in the Practice
Avoid Mental Masturbation
“For every 1 hour reading material, spend at least 2 hours in field.”
Brad P
If you’re not doing this, from this day you do it. Even if it’s 2 hours walking around a shopping mall doing “eye contact” experiments. Be strict, at least 2 hours for every 1 reading/watching.
Why?
Because otherwise all this shit is just entertainment to you… nothing more.
You cannot progress by reading and watching… there is a saying in Buddhism that the mastery is in the practice.
You must participate, you must act… there is no other way to learn properly. Things like kino, calibration, eye contact, vibing… these things can NOT be learning through watching and reading. You must practice… a lot.
Split it down even further…
Practice what you want to Improve
“When a noob is learning to become a carpenter in the workshop, the first thing they do is give him a plank of wood and a box of nails and ask him to keep nailing the nails into the plank until there is no visible wood left.
The next day the apprentice has a good feel for the hammer, the weight of the strike, how to correct nails which have entered the wood at a bad angle, etc.”
Mankite
This principle is identical in PU. If you need to learn how to tell jokes – tell a joke in every set. With analysis your progress will be faster still, but even with no analysis at all your emotional circuitry will auto-correct and you will get better at it just through the process.
Try learning how to be amazing joke-teller without telling any jokes in the process…
Not possible, no matter how many books you read.
Practice doesn’t have to be in field!
Although infield practice is crucial… not all practice has to be in field.
Here’s five examples of practice which can be done out of field:
1) Meditation
2) Practicing facial expressions in mirror
3) Practicing dance moves
4) Practicing massage
5) Voice exercises
What’s the moral?
Become more pragmatic!
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