Thinking into Character

In this Lesson you will:

• Understand the enormous difference between what most students, teachers or any human beings know and what they do.  The world is not very interested in what you know. The only people who are recognised are the ones who can do things, who get the job done.
• Identify the two parts of the mind –  the conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind. The conscious mind is what connects us to the world through our senses – we hear, see, smell, taste and touch. The subconscious mind is the part of the mind that expresses whatever is impressed upon it. The expression is what we refer to as doing.
• Learn that a paradigm is a multitude of habits. A habit is an idea that is fixed in a person’s subconscious mind that causes them to do something without any conscious thought. A paradigm is what causes our habitual behaviour.
• Be aware that we sometimes do things we do not want to do, get results we do not want, but do it anyway. This is because of the paradigm in the subconscious mind that controls our actions or behaviours.
• Recognise that for a person to experience a permanent change in their personal, academic and professional life, there must be a change in the primary cause of their results.
• Avoid changing behaviour because change is generally temporary.  Although behaviour causes results,  it is a secondary cause. The primary cause is the  paradigm.
• Understand that knowing is not enough to get results. Results come from behaviour, and behaviour is caused by the paradigm. The results tell an interesting story, they tell the world an interesting and true story of how the person is programmed.
• Recognise our programming in our academic and personal life so that we can begin to change it and significantly improve results and indeed our character.
• Change our paradigms and see how the behaviour changes, the results change and our character changes.
• Gain insight into the concept that high achievers are not successful because of what they know, but because of what they do. This is because they have learned how to master the knowing-doing gap. Their paradigms are aligned with the results they desire.
• Study the learnings from the reading article in the Student’s Handbook for this lesson, adapted from Earl Nightingale, ‘How Much Are you Worth’.
• Review this lesson and continue to examine your answers and responses you are providing for each section.
• Develop a high awareness level by reviewing Lesson 2 on a regular basis and again 12 months after completing the programme.
• Learn the value of repetition:  Continuously review, rewrite and review on an ongoing basis.