Learning Revisited— again, and again, and again...

I find my self going back again and over again re-reading & studying the early chapters in The Power To Transform I've already read— so far, sometimes, many times. The negative assessment I had at the ready was I was doing it "wrong."

"Had... was..." I selected a better assessment— one that serves & empowers me & my process. Shared with you here just in case, like me, you had the right/wrong thought about your own learning process.

In the last years of college I was dating Victoria Maria Teresa... (and on and on went her name), the oldest daughter of a former Cuban aristocrat (former in that Castro was now in power and he had left Cuba on the last plane out— with Batista no less). Dr. Antinio Valdes Dapena taught me to play billiards.

NOT pool. Billiards. No pockets, only three balls— a cue ball and one red and one white object ball (your opponents cue ball). The object of the game was to strike your cue ball and hit both object balls. When you did you got one point. The winner with the most poiints... won the game.

As I learned how to play the game I was taught a number of basic shots: The break shot, straight shot, one, two & three cushion shots. I practiced untill I was pretty competent at one kind of shot, then moved on to the next, became good at thet one, then moved on to the next.

By the time I got to practicing the third kind of shot, I found I'd become "rusty" at the first one. So, I went back and practiced that one again until I was as good or better than I'd been before, then moved on to shot number two, then three— bringing my skill back to an acceptable level with each kind of shot before moving to the next.

This pattern persisted as I learned more & more different shots (and there are a ton to learn and get good at). It was a kind-of one step forward, three (or more) steps back deal. Eventually I became proficient at the who arsenal of basic & advanced billiard shots and was a billiard player. Good. Never great. Proficient was my goal and I was that.

I'm doing a similar thing with my study of The Power To Transform. It works for me. Each time I return to the chapter on language, or the enemies of learning, or centering, or awareness... I "see" it with new enough eyes that something new comes into view.

I'm guessing & assessing that's because having increased my competence in those domains through practice I'm now more able to take a deeper cut at those previous distinctions. I suspect that will continue to increase throughout the book, given that Mastery is a life-ling journey, rather than a done-deal destination.

Again, for me at the moment, it's NOT Transformation I'm after... It's The POWER To Transform, when & where I need, want & choose.

Let me know what you think.

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