Hey Leo here for actualized.org and in this episode I want to show you a more effective

way to think about learning. People suck at bridging the gap between theory and practice.

They don't know how to take concepts and then put them into action.

And that, of course, is the most important part for actually getting the results

that you want to see in your life. So what I'm going to share with you today is a very simple

but also somewhat counterintuitive insight, which is the missing link, which will take you from

theory into application.

I want to give a credit to Eben Pagan and Wyatt Wood Small from whom I learned this lesson at one of their seminars.

So what is this important insight? Well, it's this. It's very simple, but listen close.

It's this. Learning equals behavior change.

Learning equals behavior change.

Learning equals behavior change.

Learning equals behavior change.

That's it. It's very simple, but it's also somewhat counterintuitive, so we need to go through this in some depth.

What this means is that you haven't learned anything

until your behavior has actually changed. So whatever lessons or concepts or beliefs you think you're learning in school or here with me or after reading a book, this is not really learning.

It's only learning when your behavior changes.

That's when learning has taken place.

Until then, it's just mental masturbation.

So this is an interesting perspective on learning.

What it does is a sort of... So this is an interesting perspective on learning.

What it does is it sort of tightens the reins,

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