Professional performers know money doesn’t care in which direction it flows. The poverty class talks about and regurgitates the past the middle class talks about other people and the world class talks about ideas. Ideas - it’s such a simple concept that the majority misses it. The middle class often scorns the world class out of frustration over a lack of money, yet the answer to earning more than they can spend has been in their laps their whole lives. The world class trades ideas that solve problems for money. While the great ones are strong advocates of higher education, they don’t believe it has much to do with acquiring money. They seek advanced degrees and certifications and are confounded when these things don’t bring them riches. The middle class believes formal education is the answer to acquiring wealth, yet very few academics are wealthy. Knowing this, champions raise their level of consciousness by studying how the world class creates wealth. Albert Einstein once said, “a problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs." Even in the wealthiest nation in the world, 99% of the population is being controlled by money. If you got out of bed this morning because you had to, money is in control of you. – Ayn Rand, 1905-1982,author, philosopher If you got out of bed this morning and went to work because you wanted to, you are in control of money. “Wealth is the product of a man’s capacity to think.” Self-deception and delusion have no place in the professional performer’s consciousness. Champions know that, to ascend to the top, you must first be operating from a mindset of objective reality. They err on the side of over-practicing and over-preparing. The world class is brutally honest with themselves, and they tend to look reality in the face. They’ll swear they are thinking about their vision all the time, but they’re not. They’ll tell you they’re putting in far more time than they are. Since this reality is too harsh to bear, they delude themselves into thinking they are doing everything in their power to get ahead. In other words, they want to live the life of the world class, but are unwilling to pay the price. Because of their low expectations, their actions are incongruent with their desires. Although they don’t expect to get there, the thought crosses their minds from time to time.
They are operating at a high enough level to understand that higher levels exist. It’s the middle class that is most incongruent with reality. They are typically not concerned about climbing any higher.
They’re usually not expecting much, and no one around them expects much, either. The working class is punching a mental time clock and counting the days until retirement. The poverty level is barely surviving and living in a very harsh set of circumstances. Of the five major levels of conscious awareness, (poverty, working, middle, upper, and world) my experience has been that performers at the middle-class levels of consciousness suffer the grandest delusions. In other words, most people delude themselves into thinking they are working harder then they are, and that they are more competent than they actually are.
– Steve Siebold In 20 years of competing, coaching and working with performers from various fields, I’ve discovered most amateurs suffer from mild to severe delusion in relation to their efforts and competencies. The great ones’ habits, actions, and behaviors are totally congruent with the size and scope of their ultimate vision. “Amateur performers operate from delusion, pros operate from objective reality.
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