Imagine you do a course with Psychotactics (e.g. the Article Writing Course). And you learn specific steps to write an article. Well, heck you’re copying the steps, right?
And that makes you a clone, right?
Wrong.
Well, not exactly wrong.
The chances of others perceiving you to be a clone are very high.
But you can never, ever be a clone.
You couldn’t be a clone, even if you copied everything…
Because layering comes into play.
What you’ve learned over the years somehow gets added into the mix.
Good stuff that you’ve learned. Bad stuff too.
And though you think you’re becoming a clone, you’re creating a variation.
Kids start off trying to be clones of their parents
A child copies the actions, accent of its parent. As humans we’re all wannabe-clones.
If the entire human race walked on one leg, you can be sure that our kids would learn to walk on one leg.
And yet, there’d be variations.
Which kind of takes me back to when I first started cooking.
At that point, I didn’t want to experiment at all. I’d want to be told exactly what to do, and how to do it, down to the last ingredient, and the last measure. At that point I’d be a clone–almost.
But as I grew in confidence, that cloning factor didn’t get reduced. It just layered itself on the top of other factors. And so, my ability to cook better and quicker meals continued to evolve.
And all the time, I thought I was just being a clone. But obviously, I was wrong.
Cloning is simply impossible
Because even when we’re trying to copy something in the greatest detail, we create some variation.
No matter how minute, the variation must exist.
Even an exact photocopy isn’t an exact photocopy down to the last detail.
A layer has entered the zone.
And layering is an amazing journey.
As we’re about to find out in my next post.