Coach Ted discusses the approach of training as a tool with which any outcome can be accomplished.
How Far Can We Push with Training?
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How Far Can We Push with Training?
Season 5/Episode 21
July 18, 2022
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This is the Ted O'Neill Program where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill with Jon Leon Guerrero.
0:26
To me training is a set of precise and clear-cut directions that has been objectively demonstrated to produce the highest-level result. So, in other words, our processes will always work if you work them, because they're proven they're not based in theory. It's not based on what someone posted on Instagram today. This comes from a base of experience and an understanding of how things work. So, when I say precise and clear-cut directions for Mark, using that example, the last iteration of his process was this next set of precise and clear-cut directions. So now we've done all these other things. I'm not going to go over all that for the sake of simplicity, but just suffice to say he had already achieved a result far in excess. So, he's now the one in the 1000 representation. And so, for him than having the next level precision was simple. He just walked through that. Now for someone who started out, that's almost the analogy I've been using this week. And working with people has been the very first day you learn how to write. You're learning how to form this concept of letters and just that alone is conceptually weird when you're five or six years old, and you're thinking you're going to be able to communicate by the things I put pen to paper with. So, if I handed someone a book…
1:49 Jon
Well, let me take that a step further, because when you're five or six and you're learning to write letters, I don't think you are yet fathoming what this task that you're doing…
1:59 Ted
Can't think beyond what you're doing right then.
2:02 Jon
Yeah, so the tasks that you’re doing becomes a skill that allows you to do things that are way beyond your imagination at that point.
2:06 Ted
So then if I were to hand you a five-year-old Johnny copy of Warren Piece and say, read this in three hours and summarize it, it would be an impossible task.
2:14 Jon
Impossible task even to conceptualize that somebody could gather those ideas and then convey them.
2:20 Ted
Yes, so this is not dissimilar. This is a huge point I want everyone to lock into right now. The things that seem fantastic or far out of your reach are just a function of training by following a set of precise and clear-cut directions, step by step. So, if you're on the step where you're forming your first letter, you can't jump into quantum physics. It doesn't work. If you do this sequentially, you build the foundation to have the understanding to go to the next level and beyond and beyond and beyond.
2:55 Jon
Well, I think it's helpful to come at it from the other direction too in order to get what the training is going to deliver to you. You must at that point surrender to a concept that you don't fully grasp yet. You have to do that because you're trying to understand past all of the limitations that you've already been trained on.
3:18 Ted
So that's a skill in and of itself. So, one could call that training. In order to be able to project your consciousness to a place it's not been before you have to first have a little bit of success somewhere to where you could been objectively pull yourself out and observe yourself and say, there was a time where to me this seemed impossible. And yet by going through this sequential method, I now stand here with this result. So then if I did it there, I can do it again.
3:49 Jon
Until I exceed everything that I think now is possible.
3:53 Ted
Yes. And the thing is, I think as we're wired as humans, we tend to make what I call a first pass assessment, meaning no matter what I've done, some new data point comes to us. I'm instantly going to judge that based on my past experience. We know that's how the brain is actually wired. But what if we through a function of training, learn to step back a little bit, and then be in recognition of what we've already achieved? So, then you could take the enthusiasm of the beginner's mind, yet still have the background of success of someone who's mastered something else? And then there's a knowing in that the same way I mastered this process mechanistically is going to be the exact same I mastered this process, the steps to completion might look a little different because what we're talking about within be situationally different. In other words, not different at all. It just appears that way.
0:26
To me training is a set of precise and clear-cut directions that has been objectively demonstrated to produce the highest-level result. So, in other words, our processes will always work if you work them, because they're proven they're not based in theory. It's not based on what someone posted on Instagram today. This comes from a base of experience and an understanding of how things work. So, when I say precise and clear-cut directions for Mark, using that example, the last iteration of his process was this next set of precise and clear-cut directions. So now we've done all these other things. I'm not going to go over all that for the sake of simplicity, but just suffice to say he had already achieved a result far in excess. So, he's now the one in the 1000 representation. And so, for him than having the next level precision was simple. He just walked through that. Now for someone who started out, that's almost the analogy I've been using this week. And working with people has been the very first day you learn how to write. You're learning how to form this concept of letters and just that alone is conceptually weird when you're five or six years old, and you're thinking you're going to be able to communicate by the things I put pen to paper with. So, if I handed someone a book…
1:49 Jon
Well, let me take that a step further, because when you're five or six and you're learning to write letters, I don't think you are yet fathoming what this task that you're doing…
1:59 Ted
Can't think beyond what you're doing right then.
2:02 Jon
Yeah, so the tasks that you’re doing becomes a skill that allows you to do things that are way beyond your imagination at that point.
2:06 Ted
So then if I were to hand you a five-year-old Johnny copy of Warren Piece and say, read this in three hours and summarize it, it would be an impossible task.
2:14 Jon
Impossible task even to conceptualize that somebody could gather those ideas and then convey them.
2:20 Ted
Yes, so this is not dissimilar. This is a huge point I want everyone to lock into right now. The things that seem fantastic or far out of your reach are just a function of training by following a set of precise and clear-cut directions, step by step. So, if you're on the step where you're forming your first letter, you can't jump into quantum physics. It doesn't work. If you do this sequentially, you build the foundation to have the understanding to go to the next level and beyond and beyond and beyond.
2:55 Jon
Well, I think it's helpful to come at it from the other direction too in order to get what the training is going to deliver to you. You must at that point surrender to a concept that you don't fully grasp yet. You have to do that because you're trying to understand past all of the limitations that you've already been trained on.
3:18 Ted
So that's a skill in and of itself. So, one could call that training. In order to be able to project your consciousness to a place it's not been before you have to first have a little bit of success somewhere to where you could been objectively pull yourself out and observe yourself and say, there was a time where to me this seemed impossible. And yet by going through this sequential method, I now stand here with this result. So then if I did it there, I can do it again.
3:49 Jon
Until I exceed everything that I think now is possible.
3:53 Ted
Yes. And the thing is, I think as we're wired as humans, we tend to make what I call a first pass assessment, meaning no matter what I've done, some new data point comes to us. I'm instantly going to judge that based on my past experience. We know that's how the brain is actually wired. But what if we through a function of training, learn to step back a little bit, and then be in recognition of what we've already achieved? So, then you could take the enthusiasm of the beginner's mind, yet still have the background of success of someone who's mastered something else? And then there's a knowing in that the same way I mastered this process mechanistically is going to be the exact same I mastered this process, the steps to completion might look a little different because what we're talking about within be situationally different. In other words, not different at all. It just appears that way.
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