There is a part of our brain that filters various forms of stimulation and creates a subset of stimuli we pay attention to. What we pay attention to often determines our path towards successfully accomplishing our goals or not. Learning occurs when we choose to reorient out thinking to different kinds of stimuli than we were before.
Three things help reorient our filtering system:
1. the need you feel at a specific point in time. Ex. if you feel pain you usually try to attribute your pain to something that causes the pain
2. Your view of yourself and the world
3. Goals that are in our conscious awareness due to your thinking about them
The more we choose to clarify what we want the more we will notice what behavior and actions take us closer towards those wants and what detracts from them. We can then eliminate the behaviors that take us away from our goals and increase the behaviors that take us towards them. This is a much more powerful and fast way of learning than ignoring the score increases and decreases of our actions and waiting for large external indicators or an authority to tell us what works best.
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