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Hi All,

In the manual of GC (p.21) I read that for DL "it can be helpful to choose books that are metaphors for the behaviors your studying"

Now, the example given is gardening or sailing. My question is: do you already have to be good in solving problems at gardening or sailing, so this will serve as a model?

Or is it that the skill (e.g. problem solving) one would like to improve/acquire will be used in the context of 'the metaphor of life' (here gardening or sailing) book?

Regards,
P.

The books you choose as a metaphor can be whatever books you think will serve the purpose. It is not necessary to be skilled in those areas either. The aim is to provide alternative ways of using your inner skills.

Alex

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Originally posted by AlexK:
The aim is to provide alternative ways of using your inner skills.

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What I did the other day was to include two books I thought would help me acquire the skill.

Suppose I want to improve my tennis skills. So I select three books on tennis and two others: aerodynamics (how wind conditions influence the flight of the ball) and Tai Chi (to use my chi when hitting the ball or improving body posture).
In this example these books are not examples of alternative ways of using the new skills.

I'm curious for your view on what I described. What's your experience with DL?

Regards,
P.

[This message has been edited by P. Brain (edited July 15, 2002).]

You got the idea about DL. I know the GC course mentions only 5 books and this is what I recommend for one sitting for direct learning. However I have applied it to more books than just 5. I chose 12 books on the topic that interested me and had 2 complementary books that I just shuffled into the sessions. Then I did 3 DL sessions. The results are rather pleasing and still developing it seems.

I most certainly wouldn't limit the DL experience to only the suggested minimum books I find more seems to be better. where I had used only 3 or for books on the subject I wanted to master it has been a lot less noticable whether I have been successful or not.

Alex

Thanks Alex for your helpful reply!

Now I'm gonna bug you with another question (anybody else may answer as well):

What's your opinion about the frequency of DL sessions? More specific - there are so many sessions I would like to do: memory, tai chi, public speaking, coaching, marketing, sales, hypnosis. Can I do one session every day or do you recommend some time (how long/short) between each session?

Regards,
P.

P.S. Besides Alex' opinion I'm quite curious for Paul's or Win's

Personally I'd do one week one subject and then leave it for a week. By that I mean say apply DL to 12 to 20 books on one subject over 2 to 4 days and then leave it. Let your mind process it and see how it goes. Also give it a reasonable break between subject. At least a week to allow things to surface.

While I know the mind is capable of a lot whatever changes we make in our lives we still need to give it time to become part of our live. That's why we may not notice the positive effect of our direct learning project for a month.

I think that playing with too many projects in the same week will probably cause it to take longer to notice the results. The inner mind has to process it and help us to intergrate it in our lives. Since you're greatly ambitious to have success with direct learning add borrowed genius to the session. After completing your DL on books, finish with a borrowed genius session and then when things start to surface and you are noticing the benefits of the sessions go on to the next project. Otherwise I'd set up a timetable allowing 2 weeks between each project. If I don't see any results after 21 days repeat the DL.

Alex

WOW! Thanks for sharing these valuable insights. The Genius Code is really working! I believe this is what Win or Paul suggested: improve the tools by creating tools that continously improve

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Originally posted by AlexK:
Since you're greatly ambitious to have success with direct learning add borrowed genius to the session. After completing your DL on books, finish with a borrowed genius session and then when things start to surface and you are noticing the benefits of the sessions go on to the next project.

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Ok, cool! Do you still do the DL-timeline session?

Regards,
P.

P.S. For all you NLP boys and girls: I've read this morning something great about mastering time what I would like to share with you. It's from 'Frame Games' by L. Michael Hall Ph.D

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Mastering time involves so much more than just writing out 'to do' lists and prioritizing what's really important. It also involves coding and structuring (framing) your concepts of 'time' so that you can make it go faster and slower at your choice, so that you know how to get 'lost in time' when that's appropriate and how to stay in up-time, current to this moment, fully present and aware, with all of your sensory antennas tuned into the outside world. It also means the ability to think sequentially, to follow procedures, and to get things done that have to be done 'on time.'

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To promote 'time management' to 'mastering time' incorporate this concept into DL and include (besides the books suggested by either GC or NB on delegation) one or more books on time lines:

• Adventures With Time Lines by Bob G. Bodenhamer, L. Michael Hall / ISBN 0916990427
  
• Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality by Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall / ISBN 0916990214. This book also includes chapters on values (pretty handy if you like to assign time to what's really important to you (see Stephen Covey's 7 habits and First thing first)) and meta programs.

This gives certainly me a new opportunity to take this skill to a higher level!

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Originally posted by P. Brain:
WOW! Thanks for sharing these valuable insights. The Genius Code is really working! I believe this is what Win or Paul suggested: improve the tools by creating tools that continously improve

Ok, cool! Do you still do the DL-timeline session?

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If it works for you, use it or the variation of it that you like.

Alex