The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 3<\/title><meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\" \/><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\n\t\t\tvar mr_lp_id = 61;\n\t\t\tvar mr_split_id = 0;\n\t\t<\/script><\/head><br \/>\n<body style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;padding:0px; background-color: rgb(219,211,168);background-position: top center;\"><center><\/p>\n<div style='width: 800px; height: 4000px; position: relative;overflow: hidden;'>\n<style> .opacity012 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=12)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=12);-khtml-opacity: 0.12;-moz-opacity: 0.12;opacity: 0.12;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity012' style=\"left:478px;top:-157px;height:536px;width:501px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/501_536_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:63px;top:174px;height:1px;width:676px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:186px;height:43px;width:672px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 15px;\" face=\"Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"15PX\">251A Victoria Street, Singapore 188035 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourmindstrategy.com\" id=\"linker_1\">www.yourmindstrategy.com<\/a><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:62px;top:27px;height:154px;width:326px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/326_154_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><\/p>\n<style> .opacity021 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=21)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=21);-khtml-opacity: 0.21;-moz-opacity: 0.21;opacity: 0.21;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity021' style=\"left:441px;top:1262px;height:536px;width:501px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/501_536_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><\/p>\n<style> .opacity016 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=16)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=16);-khtml-opacity: 0.16;-moz-opacity: 0.16;opacity: 0.16;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity016' style=\"left:-197px;top:1985px;height:633px;width:726px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/726.201_777.641_1471886243.png');background-position:0px -76.2088px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:382px;height:371px;width:675px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/757_371_1472003821.jpeg');background-position:-44px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:64px;top:233px;height:218px;width:715px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 29px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"29PX\"><font style=\"font-size: 42px;\" size=\"42PX\">The Pursuit of Happiness <br \/>and the 10k Rule<\/font> (PART <font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">3<\/font><\/font>)<\/font><br \/><b><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">BY DR SUNDARDAS D ANNAMALAY<\/font><\/b><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:775px;height:152px;width:36px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 54px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"54PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">H<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:110px;top:786px;height:200px;width:631px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b>ow can consciousness be controlled?<\/b><\/font><br \/><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Experience depends on how we invest psychic energy \u2013 on the structures<\/font><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:853px;height:134px;width:671px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">of attention. This is <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">related<br \/>\n to goals and intentions. These processes are connected to each other by<br \/>\n the self or the dynamic mental representation we have of the entire<br \/>\nsystem of our goals.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:60px;top:1339px;height:142px;width:300px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/300_142_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV class='opacity016' style=\"left:-105px;top:2878px;height:437px;width:500px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/500.137_536.856_1471886243.png');background-position:0px -52.6118px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV class='opacity021' style=\"left:309px;top:3085px;height:801px;width:748px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/748_801_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:463px;top:2905px;height:143px;width:302px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/302_143_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:989px;height:348px;width:680px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">Whenever information disrupts consciousness by threatening its goals we have a condition of inner disorder or psychic entropy. When something troubles our well-being or safety we use up attention on this threat and cannot pay attention to other areas of our life.<\/p>\n<p>Every piece of information gets evaluated for its bearing on self.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Does it threaten your goals?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Does it support them?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Is it neutral?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><br \/>What is the meaning we have assigned to this information?<\/font><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:1530px;height:371px;width:678px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">When information is coming into awareness is congruent with your goals, psychic energy flows effortlessly. But whenever one stops to think, the evidence is encouraging. Positive feedback strengthens self and more attention is freed to deal with outer and inner environments.<\/p>\n<p>How does someone committed to continuous learning and growth handle his responses regardless of whether he is a factory operator or a brain surgeon?<\/p>\n<p><b>He will ask himself the following questions:<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">How can I beat my record?<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">How can I improve my performance?<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">He would work out painstaking moves on his routine and how to use his tools.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:1871px;height:359px;width:677px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Following a flow experience, the internal organisation has become more complex th<font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">a<\/font>n before. This complexity consists of differentiation and integration. While differentiation is the movement towards uniqueness, integration is the integration of autonomous parts. Flow helps to integrate self because in that state of deep concentration, consciousness is well ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts, intentions, feelings and all the senses are focused on the same goal. Experience is in harmony. And when the flow episode is over, one feels more in harmony than before not only internally but also with respect to other people and to the world in general.<\/p>\n<p>When you only have the differentiated self-great accomplishments often with self-centred egotism<font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">. <\/font><\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">When you have a self based on integration you can be connected and secure but lack autonomous individuality.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:2213px;height:271px;width:686px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Only when you invest equally in the above do you have complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically when you act freely for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives that you learn to become more than what you were.<\/p>\n<p>While much effort has been devoted to 10k rule as the forerunner of future success, no one has really paid attention to why an individual would spend so much of their time in developing those skill sets.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:68px;top:2464px;height:406px;width:686px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">I would suggest that early in life they experienced enormous sense of pleasure, enjoyment, gratification and reward for excelling in that endeavour. We are back to <i>“humans want to maximise their happiness”<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If the young person pursues this endeavour purely for the enjoyment they get from excelling, you get enduring world class performance.<\/p>\n<p>If not, you get a well-trained competitor who does it for pure external gratification.<\/p>\n<p><b>Witness the tale of two Olympic champions Joseph Schooling and Li Jiawei.<\/b><br \/>Joseph’s father remembered an episode when Schooling was just 8 years old. He woke his father up at 4am. The father asked him if he knew what time it was. He replied yes. He just couldn’t wait for his father to bring him for his morning swimming practice. Such was the determination of Schooling, wanting to swim and wanting to excel in swimming from a very young age.<\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:3089px;height:462px;width:697px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">In an interview in 2008, Li admitted that she didn\u2019t like table tennis and did not play the game with passion. <i>“I don’t like the game. I just did it when I was younger to condition my body,”<\/i> she said. <i>“Now it is my career and I have to face it.”<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The American Junior Academy of Sciences which consisted of the highest IQ youngsters in America had a disproportionately low number of Nobel Laureates.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tie it all back with the ongoing discussion I have had with <b>D’Niel Strauss<\/b> and <b>Raymond Ng<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The layers of learning and growth:<\/b><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> <br \/><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"> <\/font>1) Unconscious incompetence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 2) Conscious incompetence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 3) Conscious competence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 4) Unconscious competence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 5) Reflective competence<\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:59px;top:1334px;height:1px;width:706px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:71px;top:3952px;height:65px;width:677px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-size: 12px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"12PX\">MIND STRATEGICS LEARNING CONSULTANCY PTE LTD 2016 \u00a9 DR SUNDARDAS D ANNAMALAY<\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:61px;top:2894px;height:1px;width:712px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:3526px;height:437px;width:698px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">the movement of the above often reflect core competencies that are often directly or indirectly related to the competencies acquired in the course of the 10k hours.<\/p>\n<p><b>The levels of growth:<\/b><\/p>\n<p> 1) Novice<br \/> 2) Apprentice<br \/> 3) Craftsman<br \/> 4) Master<br \/> 5) Grandmaster<\/p>\n<p>The above levels correspond to your capacity to grow, to self- actualise and your desire to increase your personal quota of meaning, purpose and happiness. 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\nThe Pursuit of Happiness – Part 3<\/title><meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\" \/><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\n\t\t\tvar mr_lp_id = 61;\n\t\t\tvar mr_split_id = 0;\n\t\t<\/script><\/head><br \/>\n<body style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;padding:0px; background-color: rgb(219,211,168);background-position: top center;\"><center><\/p>\n<div style='width: 800px; height: 4000px; position: relative;overflow: hidden;'>\n<style> .opacity012 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=12)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=12);-khtml-opacity: 0.12;-moz-opacity: 0.12;opacity: 0.12;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity012' style=\"left:478px;top:-157px;height:536px;width:501px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/501_536_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:63px;top:174px;height:1px;width:676px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:186px;height:43px;width:672px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 15px;\" face=\"Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"15PX\">251A Victoria Street, Singapore 188035 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourmindstrategy.com\" id=\"linker_1\">www.yourmindstrategy.com<\/a><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:62px;top:27px;height:154px;width:326px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/326_154_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><\/p>\n<style> .opacity021 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=21)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=21);-khtml-opacity: 0.21;-moz-opacity: 0.21;opacity: 0.21;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity021' style=\"left:441px;top:1262px;height:536px;width:501px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/501_536_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><\/p>\n<style> .opacity016 {-ms-filter: \u201cprogid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=16)\u201d;filter: alpha(opacity=16);-khtml-opacity: 0.16;-moz-opacity: 0.16;opacity: 0.16;}<\/style>\n<p><DIV class='opacity016' style=\"left:-197px;top:1985px;height:633px;width:726px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/726.201_777.641_1471886243.png');background-position:0px -76.2088px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:382px;height:371px;width:675px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/757_371_1472003821.jpeg');background-position:-44px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:64px;top:233px;height:218px;width:715px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 29px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"29PX\"><font style=\"font-size: 42px;\" size=\"42PX\">The Pursuit of Happiness <br \/>and the 10k Rule<\/font> (PART <font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">3<\/font><\/font>)<\/font><br \/><b><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">BY DR SUNDARDAS D ANNAMALAY<\/font><\/b><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:775px;height:152px;width:36px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 54px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"54PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">H<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:110px;top:786px;height:200px;width:631px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b>ow can consciousness be controlled?<\/b><\/font><br \/><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Experience depends on how we invest psychic energy \u2013 on the structures<\/font><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:853px;height:134px;width:671px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">of attention. This is <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">related<br \/>\n to goals and intentions. These processes are connected to each other by<br \/>\n the self or the dynamic mental representation we have of the entire<br \/>\nsystem of our goals.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:60px;top:1339px;height:142px;width:300px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/300_142_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV class='opacity016' style=\"left:-105px;top:2878px;height:437px;width:500px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/500.137_536.856_1471886243.png');background-position:0px -52.6118px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV class='opacity021' style=\"left:309px;top:3085px;height:801px;width:748px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/748_801_1471875945.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:463px;top:2905px;height:143px;width:302px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-image: url('http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/designer_files\/2\/15216\/images\/r\/302_143_1471875690.png');background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:989px;height:348px;width:680px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">Whenever information disrupts consciousness by threatening its goals we have a condition of inner disorder or psychic entropy. When something troubles our well-being or safety we use up attention on this threat and cannot pay attention to other areas of our life.<\/p>\n<p>Every piece of information gets evaluated for its bearing on self.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Does it threaten your goals?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Does it support them?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" size=\"17PX\">Is it neutral?<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><br \/>What is the meaning we have assigned to this information?<\/font><br \/><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:1530px;height:371px;width:678px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">When information is coming into awareness is congruent with your goals, psychic energy flows effortlessly. But whenever one stops to think, the evidence is encouraging. Positive feedback strengthens self and more attention is freed to deal with outer and inner environments.<\/p>\n<p>How does someone committed to continuous learning and growth handle his responses regardless of whether he is a factory operator or a brain surgeon?<\/p>\n<p><b>He will ask himself the following questions:<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">How can I beat my record?<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">How can I improve my performance?<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">He would work out painstaking moves on his routine and how to use his tools.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:1871px;height:359px;width:677px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Following a flow experience, the internal organisation has become more complex th<font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">a<\/font>n before. This complexity consists of differentiation and integration. While differentiation is the movement towards uniqueness, integration is the integration of autonomous parts. Flow helps to integrate self because in that state of deep concentration, consciousness is well ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts, intentions, feelings and all the senses are focused on the same goal. Experience is in harmony. And when the flow episode is over, one feels more in harmony than before not only internally but also with respect to other people and to the world in general.<\/p>\n<p>When you only have the differentiated self-great accomplishments often with self-centred egotism<font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">. <\/font><\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">When you have a self based on integration you can be connected and secure but lack autonomous individuality.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:2213px;height:271px;width:686px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\">Only when you invest equally in the above do you have complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically when you act freely for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives that you learn to become more than what you were.<\/p>\n<p>While much effort has been devoted to 10k rule as the forerunner of future success, no one has really paid attention to why an individual would spend so much of their time in developing those skill sets.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:68px;top:2464px;height:406px;width:686px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">I would suggest that early in life they experienced enormous sense of pleasure, enjoyment, gratification and reward for excelling in that endeavour. We are back to <i>“humans want to maximise their happiness”<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If the young person pursues this endeavour purely for the enjoyment they get from excelling, you get enduring world class performance.<\/p>\n<p>If not, you get a well-trained competitor who does it for pure external gratification.<\/p>\n<p><b>Witness the tale of two Olympic champions Joseph Schooling and Li Jiawei.<\/b><br \/>Joseph’s father remembered an episode when Schooling was just 8 years old. He woke his father up at 4am. The father asked him if he knew what time it was. He replied yes. He just couldn’t wait for his father to bring him for his morning swimming practice. Such was the determination of Schooling, wanting to swim and wanting to excel in swimming from a very young age.<\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:3089px;height:462px;width:697px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">In an interview in 2008, Li admitted that she didn\u2019t like table tennis and did not play the game with passion. <i>“I don’t like the game. I just did it when I was younger to condition my body,”<\/i> she said. <i>“Now it is my career and I have to face it.”<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The American Junior Academy of Sciences which consisted of the highest IQ youngsters in America had a disproportionately low number of Nobel Laureates.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tie it all back with the ongoing discussion I have had with <b>D’Niel Strauss<\/b> and <b>Raymond Ng<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The layers of learning and growth:<\/b><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> <br \/><font face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\"> <\/font>1) Unconscious incompetence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 2) Conscious incompetence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 3) Conscious competence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 4) Unconscious competence<\/font><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\"><br \/> 5) Reflective competence<\/font><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:59px;top:1334px;height:1px;width:706px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:71px;top:3952px;height:65px;width:677px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-size: 12px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"12PX\">MIND STRATEGICS LEARNING CONSULTANCY PTE LTD 2016 \u00a9 DR SUNDARDAS D ANNAMALAY<\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:61px;top:2894px;height:1px;width:712px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><\/DIV><DIV style=\"left:67px;top:3526px;height:437px;width:698px;position:absolute;overflow: hidden;overflow-y:auto;line-height: 1.25;text-align: left\"><font style=\"font-size: 17px;\" face=\"'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"17PX\">the movement of the above often reflect core competencies that are often directly or indirectly related to the competencies acquired in the course of the 10k hours.<\/p>\n<p><b>The levels of growth:<\/b><\/p>\n<p> 1) Novice<br \/> 2) Apprentice<br \/> 3) Craftsman<br \/> 4) Master<br \/> 5) Grandmaster<\/p>\n<p>The above levels correspond to your capacity to grow, to self- actualise and your desire to increase your personal quota of meaning, purpose and happiness. The journey whether you get there or not is what matters. If you want to succeed and be happy, you need to ascend the scale of ability. You have to become more complex.<\/font><\/DIV><\/div>\n<p><\/center><script src='http:\/\/www1.moon-ray.com\/tracking.js' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n_mri = \"15216_lp61.0_2\";\nmrtracking(0);\n<\/script><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 3 251A Victoria Street, Singapore 188035 www.yourmindstrategy.com The Pursuit of Happiness and the 10k Rule (PART 3)BY DR SUNDARDAS D ANNAMALAYHow can consciousness be controlled?Experience depends on how we invest psychic energy \u2013 on the structuresof attention. This is related to goals and intentions. 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