Mastery of Learning

It’s 2010.  The second decade of the New Milennium.

And there’s a new version of the classic Mastery of Learning:  MOL3K  Think of it as the essential upgrade.

If you have upgraded your computer system, switched to a smart phone, embraced digital TV, or bought a new pair of shoes, chances are that your learning paradigm needs an upgrade, too.

For the first 30 years of Mastery of Learning, the “operating system” was based on the fact that information was scarce and hard to find.  Learning techniques needed to optimize your ability to find, or “mine” what was valuable amid the scarcity.  Now, there is a glut of information — for example, enter the word “business” into Google, and you’ll see 1,880,000,000 entries!  Enter the same term into Bing.com, Microsoft’s new, streamlined and supposedly more targeted search tool.  Great!  You just have 1,100,000,000 entries to wade through.  This illustrates the shifted paradigm.  You no longer need to mine the scarcity — you need to know how to sift through the overload.

The second justification is the biggest game-changer in neuroscience, and its significance impacts medicine, psychology, sociology, and human development in general.  I’m talking about neuroplasticity:  the FACT that your brain can change, grow, and learn throughout your entire lifetime.  Here’s why neuroplasticity is important.  It seems that people’s greatest fear is senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.  These devastating conditions have been oversold to promote all kinds of software, exercises, and drugs to forestall what they paint as “the inevitable.”  HOWEVER:  the good news is that by harnessing your own potential for your brain to work smarter as you age, and your ability to adapt and learn new things, you can experience being well for a long time, and age gracefully.

Thirdly:  the world as we know it is no longer the world as we knew it.  Nothing brought this home more clearly than listening to the speakers at The UP Experience in October.  When Robert Ballard accidentally discovered extremophiles living in hot vents in the deep ocean, ALL of the assumptions of standard biology, and how and where life began on earth, went out the window.  In astronomy, new discovereies by the Mars Rovers and orbiters have produced evidence that there is water there.  My science textbooks portrayed our solar system as a collection of  cold, barren rocks floating around out there.  We now know that this is not so.

Basically:  everything you “received” or “learned” as factual information has been updated to such a phenomenal extent as to make your previous learning irrelevant.  You do have a choice.  You can hunker down and ignore everything, and become as outdated as a 1959 textbook.  Or — you can fine-tune your abilities to adapt and adjust to changing information and conditions.  Your business, your life, and your creativity will flourish if you learn how to stay current.

That’s the basis of the new MOL3K.  You’ll upgrade your skills in speed-reading, idea mapping, looping, and all of our other unique and proprietary content.  And — you’ll upgrade your  software and “wetware,” re-wiring your brain to be ready for the challenges to come.

MOL3K v1.0 launches January 9-10.  Call Chris Welsh at 713.439.1442 to register.