Elena Merts

Why don’t trainings work?

Last night before bed I listened to a recording of Figor_graf’s talk at the info-conference in St. Petersburg this summer. At first I thought I’d stop at minute 20 and listen to the rest in the morning. But the plans didn’t come true: Igor [Graf] spoke so inspiringly that, without taking my eyes off the screen, I listened to all 45 minutes in one breath.

He spoke about a sore subject. He expressed the thoughts, I’m sure, of most people who go to trainings trying to find that magic phrase, that revelation from the trainer that will give them a push in life and finally change it once and for all.

So why doesn’t the knowledge gained at trainings work? Of course, while you are taking the training, there is some movement. And then what?

And then a person is left alone with their thoughts, fears, doubts, successes, failures; simply put, with their human factor. Gradually the heat of passion cools, the fervor fades, and they return to the point where they started. Routine drags them in again, and to get inspired somehow, gather energy and move forward, they go to yet another training.

There is a modern disease: trainingmania. That’s when people go from training to training, from webinar to webinar, from coaching to coaching, and collect “knowledge.”

Why is there no upward movement for these people? After all, they know what needs to be done. But they don’t do it.

It’s all very simple! Coming to a training, a person hopes to get a universal solution that will help them become successful, rich, healthy, beautiful. Of course, they are given useful information, but it isn’t absorbed. There is no inner realization: no understanding of why and for what reason it needs to be done exactly this way.

In fact, the path a mentor offers is his path. He is the one who did it this way. It is for him that THIS technology works. And the fact that he moved toward success exactly this way and not otherwise does not at all