Summary and Benefits:
Brendan Lea from Consciousness and Skill Worldwide acknowledges some individuals who have helped him develop his skills in video making. He then talks about the importance of correction in mastery, and shares a story about the autopilot feature in airplanes. Lea emphasizes that constant correction is necessary to reach one’s destination or goal, and that reactivity is not helpful in this process. He also talks about how he recently made a course correction in how he presents himself based on feedback he received, and encourages viewers to take a look at their own lives and be open to making corrections as well.
Three main benefits of reading this for people interested in personal growth are:
- Understanding the relationship between correction and mastery, and how correction is crucial for getting good at anything or mastering anything.
- Learning about a real-life analogy of constant correction in the cockpit of a plane and how it can be applied to personal growth and development.
- Gaining insight into the importance of receiving feedback and making corrections, even if it may be uncomfortable or require personal change, in order to become more authentic and true to oneself.
Transcription:
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Brendan Lea from Consciousness and Skill Worldwide. Welcome back! As you can see, I’ve made some changes, which is probably the first thing I want to talk about. Here is what I would like to talk to you about in this video: The relationship between correction and mastery.
So, now the main thing I want to do in this video is to acknowledge some people that have helped me develop myself on shooting video. Namely, Leo Gura – he’s been a big influence on me obviously. The second person I’d like to thank is Alex Lungu from Higher Self Korea. Again, another YouTube personality who I have gotten lots of useful information and lots of feedback from – so, Alex, thank you also. And then to anybody else who’s ever given me feedback, whether I liked it or not, I have taken value from such feedback, which has prompted my current change of shooting style.
Not that the style itself is changing – I’m still a talking head in a camera – but the background has changed, and we are now in the dojo where I have spent literally thousands and thousands of hours training physically and also doing consciousness work – like well over 10,000 hours. This building is where I grew up essentially – after I was 18, I moved here and spent my entire 20s and now half my 30s in this building doing loads of work. So, welcome to the Dojo/Meditation hall just depends on what workshops are having at the time.
So, I wanted to talk to you in this video. First, I wanted to acknowledge those people that came before me and I took inspiration from – Leo, Alex – thank you. And then I want to talk to you in this video about correction.
One crucial aspect of getting good at anything or mastering anything is the ability to make corrections. Stewart Emery has had an influence on my teacher, Peter, and so via Peter, I get to hear about this guy, Stewart Emery. I’ve also read some of his books. He seems right on with a lot of what he’s saying, and I really appreciate his contribution to people’s empowerment.
One story he tells is about being invited into the cockpit of a plane from the pilot and got to sit up there, and then the pilot explained to him how autopilot works. Essentially, there’s one box that knows where the plane needs to go, and then there’s another box that controls the plane, and they talk to each other back and forth. So, one box will say, “Okay, say it’s like Frank and Bob or something like that. Fred would go, “Hey, Bob, the plane is diving down. You need to bring it up.” And Bob’s like, “Okay, brings the plane up.” And then Frank will go, “Okay, Bob, plane’s too far to the left. Bring it back to the right.” And Bob goes, “Okay, Frank,” makes a correction.
The funny story or the funny analogy that’s there for that one is if you imagine two human beings having that conversation where you’re constantly getting feedback, correct feedback, make a correction, feedback, make a correction. Pretty soon, you’d be like, “What the… You keep giving me all this. Just shut up. Leave me alone. Let me fly the damn plane.” So, you’d be more like…”
“That’s because we’d not geared up for this very well as humans, as far as I can tell at this current state and our development. So the thing to get, what one, the thing to get is the reactivity is not necessarily wanted or needed, and it doesn’t really help anything. The main thing to get is that the plane can go from San Francisco to Hawaii and it is off course 99% of the time. The plane is off course 99% of the time and yet it can still get within whatever some six feet of the runway, why? Because it’s making constant correction along its path toward its destination, see?
So then this video is also a literal demonstration of me making a course correction in how I present myself based on feedback that I received from somebody else. When I got the feedback, honestly, didn’t feel good. Ow, poor me. Oh, my feelings are so important, my opinion is so important, see? And the feedback I got was essentially that there’s a little bit of inauthenticity in my videos.
So I’m like, you know what, I’ll take a stand for that. Uncomfortable or not, my feelings aside because in this case, my feelings don’t really matter and they never do when it comes to this correction stuff. In a certain sense, I can think of other stuff where it’s like, oh my feelings might be right on and accurate, but that’s a different thing. What I’m talking about is these reactive feelings or like maybe I feel hurt or uncomfortable because I received some feedback that my videos aren’t up to snuff.
And so I did some thinking and I did some considering, got the feedback and considered the feedback, and I said, you know what, no, their feedback was correct. My videos were a bit inauthentic. And since I am taking a stand for authenticity, I decided to change it up. And here we are, we are in the most authentic place physically, physical location that I could be in to represent what I do because this is literally where I grew up and in a certain sense, a very powerful sense.
So what I want you to get is like take a look at your own, so now bringing value to you, the listener, viewer, whatever. Consider your ability to make correction, consider where you’re at in relationship to feedback. Say you get some feedback from somebody you know, do you just do you take it? Do you use it to further your work or do you just shut it down right away?
Now just take a look, take a look. What’s your relationship now? What could be the most powerful relationship to receiving feedback? There’s a good question, and then act on it. If you want to have that power, act on it. Excuse me, how about making correction? Are you willing to make correction? Do you notice if your correction makes a difference or not? You know all these things, but the main thing is if you need to correct, of course, correct and move on. Move on to the next thing, you know. So it’s just a little bit.
I mainly wanted to share the new new digs and just give you a little something about making correction and about receiving feedback that I hope you will gain some value from in your own life and your own whatever it is that you’re trying to do. Well, like they have those Yoda memes or Yoda is like it’s like the quote, the only difference between you and a master’s the master has failed more times than you can count.
Yeah, that’s because they do something, they fail, they make correction, they do it again. They do something fail, make correction, do it again, make a change, try it again, fail, do it again and on and on and on and on and on until finally they have a refined like something that they’ve got it, you know, over a period of time. So correction is essential to mastery, essential toward gaining skill, knowledge, these kinds of things. So there you go! A little bit. Welcome in the dojo! See you later.
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