Just Do It!

If you want to become a world-class tennis player and had Andre Agassi at your disposal as a personal coach and mentor, would you spend your time with him finding out what runs through his head during matches? Or would you find a way to emulate his serve, his movements, and his swings?

In martial arts, my teacher had a rule:

       Don't think about what you learned today. Don't go home and run it through your mind. Don't take  
       notes. Don't look at books. Just practice the movements I teach you and, sooner or later, your body
       will know them, even if your mind is somewhere else.

That's the ultimate objective of learning, isn't it? To acquire knowledge so deep that it becomes subconscious...and automatic?

In Zen in the Art of Archery (Vintage, 1999), Eugen Herrigel describes it this way:

     The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye
     which confronts him. This state of unconscious is realized only when, completely empty and rid
     of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill.

Practice Makes Perfect

The idea is this: If you want to master the art of wealth-building - so you can become financially independent and create wealth automatically whenever and wherever you want to - you need to learn wealth building the way any master learns his art: by repeating, as closely as possible, the actions of successful wealth builders.

And this leads to an important paradox: If you want to master a skill as quickly as possible, practice slowly.

The faster you perform a task, the more likely it is that you will make a mistake - unless, that is, you have cut only one path for it. A perfect one. Likewise, when you are performing a task under stress, it is easy to bungle it.

The fundamental rule is this: Slow down...until you can practice the skill with perfect technique. Continue practicing perfectly and you will find that your speed will gradually increase without any effort on your part. Eventually, you will do it quickly and perfectly.

You will find that you can apply this rule to almost any skill and achieve the same good results. In your efforts to train yourself to become a wealth builder, you should keep this secret in mind. Becoming a master at wealth building is like becoming masterful at guitar playing or jujitsu. Each requires knowledge and experience. Each involves learning skills. Each of these skills may be complex, but if you break them down into their basic elements - and practice each one slowly and perfectly - you will master them.$

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