Word got out and my school grew. We had all types, at the time, all adult. But mostly women. Over 60% of the students were women. This was a big change from the past.
I noticed something interesting about a lot of them.
Many were very sheepish when they started. They wanted to learn but they were also easily discouraged. The slightest failure and they went running.
I also noticed something about a lot of the men. They had very little direction. They seemed broken from lack of confidence. They wanted to learn. But they were also easily discouraged.
But the strong community we had built always brought them back.
The most common thing that sent them running was... not being able to remember the moves. Over and over I heard the same thing. They said they couldn’t even remember the names of the moves. Let alone how to do them. Over and over it was as if they were telling me that they were too stupid to learn.
At the time I didn’t understand what was going on. Now I understand it all too well.
With a lot of encouragement, these people stayed. And they trained. And there always seemed to be the same progression.
- At about three months they stopped complaining about not being able to remember.
- At about six months they had gotten past their emotional hurdles and were now training harder than ever.
- At about nine months they started to want to help others.
During this period they would also talk about other things that were happening in their lives. Positive things. Things like getting a better job or a job promotion. Or like finally starting some activity that they had always wanted to do. Or very commonly, like leaving a very unhealthy relationship.
Their lives were changing and it seemed to me their brains were changing also.
Now, not only could they remember their moves, but countless variations on the moves also. Not only had memory become a non-issue but they loved learning. They ate it up. Over and over I saw life transformations. I saw them become not only more confident. They seemed different in many ways. They seemed smarter. They were able to remember hundreds of techniques when previously they couldn’t remember a half dozen. They enjoyed learning. They made better life choices.
I didn’t think a whole lot about it. I saw it happening and just accepted that the training worked. I didn’t know why.
That is, until I met Jacqueline.
We had recently started taking younger students. Previously we were an adult focussed school. But we decided it was time to bring the benefits of our training to children also.
Jacqueline was 12. At her age she should have been placed in kids group. But she was nearly 6 feet tall. At that towering height, I couldn’t see her training with children literally half her size. So we put her in with the adults.
To say that Jacqueline was not coordinated is an understatement. She possessed very little control over her lanky body. Grace and beauty were not words one would apply to Jacqueline. Growing to nearly six feet tall by age 12 tends to do that to a person.
But Jacqueline’s coordination was to change.
Over time Jacqueline learned to coordinate her body extremely well. Her movement became strong. She became confident. Everything about her changed.
She actually became so skilled that the men students feared her. I don’t know if it was the bruises that they hated or the fact that those bruises were given to them by a 12-year-old girl. Certainly, that bruised their egos a bit.
Over time, Jacqueline, the ugly duckling, blossomed into the beautiful swan. In more ways than one.
We were pretty proud of our accomplishments with Jacqueline. But what happened next was what was to amaze us for years to come.
What we learned from training Jacqueline... was what was to become... the magic ingredient in the Learning Success System. This one piece of information is what has allowed us to change the lives of so many who struggle with reading.
What we discovered was:
We are not doomed to live with the brain we were born with. We can change our brain just like we can change our body.
Is it easy?
Well yes and no.
Generally, the methods are fairly easy. But you have to do them. It won’t happen on it’s own.
Not everyone is willing to do that. Since you have read this far I’m pretty sure you are someone who will do the work.
But worse than not doing, is not even knowing you can.
So many people are not given this information. So many just give up and assume they are stupid. Or accept the limitations of a diagnosis. Every day I talk to people who have lived their whole life with this assumption. And the outcome of just living with it is not good. People who assume they have little worth choose bad relationships. People who assume they are stupid choose jobs that are below them. People who do not get help lead lives that are pale shadows of their potential.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
I’ve seen hundreds change. Lives transformed. With tiny little steps. Little steps that add up.
That’s why we designed the Learning Success System with tiny steps. Because that’s what works. A little bit at a time.