Dallas PUA

I did my psychology paper of Ericsson and his research_(I am psychology major). He came up with three steps of skill acquisition:
1)This is the step where an individual is perfroming a task for the first time- he or she must pay a lot of attention to it and basically just needs to understand what he or she needs to do
2)The execution becomes more automatic. The subject still has to pay attention to the execution but now he or she know how to do it so there is more automation in the execution
3)Task becomes completely automatic.Very little conscious effort is given.

Like I said I did my research on this guy and he is right- neuroscience research confirms what he said.Now lets me explain a little more:
Driving. Remmember how much attention you paid to your driving when you first started out? Compare that to your skill now.
Same thing with pick up. I talked to my porfessor about it and social skills are learned the same way.
Now on to one of my theroies about human mind: I think that thinking is a habit too. Somewhere along the line some of us acquired and learned how to think negatively about ourselves and that became a habit. Now the trick is to learn how to think positively in every situation. Now it is known that to become a master you need to spend a total of 10,000 hours practicing your skill. Now we can say same thing about picking up and thinking or inner game. We must PRACTICE thinking positively just as we Practice PUA stuff.Its is a proven fact that there are anatomical changes in the brain when person goes from thinking negatively to thinking positively(which with practice becomes automatic).Well here are my two cents for today.

I've been reading Emotional Intelligence (forget the author) and he discusses stuff like this. He breaks down all thought processes as being done by the low road or the high road. The low road is instinctual, the high road are things that require thought (i.e. typing is low road, what I'm typing is high road).

Well, just as Murad said you can rewire your mind to turn tasks from high road to low road. For instance, when one first learns to type (assuming you can) you have to think about finger placement, key positioning, etc. But, with training you no longer think about any of that, you simply just do it.

Further, this guy contends that the best way to ever learn anything is simply to start doing it. Get the fundamentals down (i.e. where are the keys?) and then go to town (practice). This is why you can only get so far from reading books on PU. You never actually practice what you've been reading.

Just to layer in my own personal experience. I used to be a very negative guy. It has taken well over 5 years to shed that way of thinking...sometimes I falter and negativity gets the best of me. But, for the most part I think positively.

Good post Murad!

Yeah I know what you mean about slipping back into negativity Bull Run. What I am curious about is how did you go from negative into positive?

Practice

I think he means how specifically... did you do nlp routines? affirmations? just tell yourself when you caught yourself being negative to stop. The last way is something I've had to learn except when it comes to my most hardcore negative -- women ;) generally a pretty positive person except when it comes to that... i'm working on it tho -- curious too what methods you used

Well several "gurus" from community have looked into this. I just remembered that Jeffy, aka jlaix, talked about it on his DVD program(he is the dude that writes RSD's letters). Basically he wrote out certain positive lines for a while and then he printed multiple copies of that list and taped it all over his room. So everywhere he looked he would constantly see and read those affirmations to himself. Hearing those things almost everyday for months and years,according to him it helped him a lot.

There other dudes like Hypnotica and Steve P. that advocate hypnosis. I have not tried that yet but I think I will do what David D and Jeffy advised just writing that shit out and posting it everywhere in my room.