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Hello Mr Hamilton
I have recently received the ‘Wish-Command’ CD series and I want to thank you good sir for inviting me to participate in this form of learning and development. I don’t know what I don’t know but this I do know; I love to read and always have. When listening to the CD series the first time I heard references made to Napoleon Hill, Nightingale and Carnegie and it took me back to 1988 when I first met a man – a sales manager, who introduced me to the ‘strangest secret’, ‘Think & Grow Rich’ and ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. Those journeys lead me to read many of Nathaniel Branden’s books and several other authors such as Ziglar, Brian Tracy, and Covey. I’d long forgotten those days until it all suddenly came rushing back 22 years later!
What I am realising is now that I was just a 22 year old kid in 1988 embarking on my career but my teach ability index was high at that time and I was willing to accept change. It was back in 1988 that I was also introduced to the concept of unconscious and conscious competence/incompetence but it was through sport – golf to be precise. My teacher at that stage talked about the process of building repetition in the short game, putting, pitching so I could move through the four stages of learning. The same thing applied to tennis, when as a young man I was playing at a high level in regional and local tournaments.
All of that, until now, had been left behind as I became lost in silent frustration, building a career in the anti civilisation which has been only moderately fulfilling. Lost were the dreams that were seeded in 1988 – until now. There is so much for me to integrate right now and I am so excited that I can hardly sleep at times but I am also profoundly sad for I realise I got bogged down in “the how”. On the training-balance scale I flipped it from 99.9% inspiration to 99.9% perspiration. Although I am high on teach ability, I am low on competence. Having said this, I am so grateful Mr Hamilton for your mentoring and for choosing me for your teachings. I live a world away from the United States and how I came to be referred to you; at this point I have no idea. I also realise now that there was something missing from Hill’s book; I never knew what it was, but clearly much of the original 16 secrets was removed or watered down.
What you have done through your books is take me back to a time in my life when I ‘played’; when I was profoundly happy because I was driving on my essence with an almost carefree attitude. My learning-balance scale was tipped heavily into inspiration. All that stopped in 1992 when I ‘unplugged’ from the teachings of Hill, Carnegie and others and there is something very profound here that I have only recently realised. When we lose our teach ability we stagnate and I’ve been doing that for 18 something years.
