So if you’ve come with us this far, you know that the most effective method of learning is learning by being. And being requires change; that’s called becoming. And the first step to becoming a genius in whatever field you choose is duplication.

Now if this doesn’t make any sense to you, you didn’t watch the first two videos. Go back and do that now—here’s the link—and then watch this video. Otherwise without the preliminaries, you’ll be grasping for the meaning.

So what we’re doing here, is we’re learning by becoming. Being is the best way because it comes from inside of you spontaneously. There’s no script. It’s not necessary because you are the thing that you’re trying to be. You are the genius, the master of the subject that you’re trying to learn. So, if you’re not already that genius, how do you become that genius? The first step is duplication. You must be working from an exact copy of the source materials. The second step, however, is understanding.

Now what is understanding? When we’re with someone that we know, and that knows us really well, we can say, “We understand each other.” It means we really know each other; it means we have internalized each other’s being to such a degree that we can predict the effect of any word or incident on your consciousness. Isn’t it? And that’s a very pleasant feeling of intimacy. We have a saying: “I get it.” I get you, I know what you’re getting at. What is it that you’re getting? You’re getting the duplication of the other person’s mind.

So this concept of duplication is very powerful, and it’s fundamental. If you’re not working with an exact copy of the original thing that you’re trying to learn, how can you learn it? And we’ll get into the exact standard of duplication later; but it’s much higher than you have been trained or led to believe. Real duplication means an exact copy. And how that’s possible? By knowing the definitions of all the terms and symbols used in the original material. You should be able to recite the definitions by heart. That’s how well, that’s how down cold you have to have your original material.

This is not an exaggeration. That’s why real students of a subject can quote verbatim from the source materials. Then by modeling the meaning of those source materials in a cause-and-effect relationship, you come to understand it: “I do this over here, and it causes this over here. I tweaked this, and it does that. And there’s a cause-and-effect relationship in time.”

So what we’re doing here by developing understanding is actually telling a story about the subject that we’re learning. It’s like constructing a narrative based on the material that you’ve duplicated that describes how the thing works, the theory of operations, if you will. But the actual process that goes on inside your mind is one of modeling, and modeling in terms of cause-and-effect. Building a narrative, building a story. And we go through all the stages on how to do that.