Why is practice so important?

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Why does it take so much work to learn something new?

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We often think it is about developing and refining the skill.

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Yet there is something more going on.

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Something more subtle that is happening in the process.

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We may not notice it, yet it is can be actually even more important.

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And that is that with more and more practice, we become in alignment with the new skill.

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After putting in the hours and hours of work at playing a new instrument, or learning a new language, or stating a new job, we now embody what it means to be proficient in that new skill.

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Some people can pick things up much more quickly than others.

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We often marvel at their ability to learn so quickly.

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Perhaps it is not about intelligence or raw talent.

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Maybe it is about a lack of resistance to embodying the new skill.

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When we think it will take us a long time to learn something, it often does.

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If we feel we can pick something up quickly, we are also usually right.

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Our own attitude and energy around what we are learning has a lot to do with it.

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Whether we feel it is hard to learn or easy, we are usually right.

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That is because of our alignment, or lack or alignment, had so much to do with it.

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The more we align and believe that we are the person who is a skilled musician, or good at math, or works well in new situations, the easier it all flows to us.

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We are not resistant to having to change and adapt and learn something new.

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We are more open, and more importantly, we are more eager to have that experience.

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Age does not matter.

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Talent does not matter.

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Environment does not matter.

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Except for the fact that we allow them to matter to us.

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When we allow ourselves to fully align and become the person we need to be to have that skill, we get there so much faster.

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Our own nervous system will align to it.

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It may seem magical at times.

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Yet the real magic is in our own beliefs, our own attitudes, and our own energy.

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So what new venture would you like to be more in alignment with?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant