Competitive Learning is a practice. To think of learning as a competitive practice is uncommonly powerful in a world that assumes hard work and common sense are all you need. It is not learning from magazines, television and newspapers. Learning from the mass of entertainment available is not competitive; rather it is more of the same. Knowing this is part of the transition to competitive learning.

Competitive Learning becomes meaningful, relevant, valuable and purposeful once we understand that business is a game of power based upon superior knowledge. Knowledge is a fundamental source of competitive advantage and value in today’s knowledge based economy. The first part of competitive learning is producing moods that are effective for learning and to produce a competitive advantage. Producing effective moods means taking care of yourself while working and while learning.

Competitive learning does not come from a class you take or a seminar you listen to. Competitive learning is continual and constant. There are three fundamental practices for accumulating knowledge and power, which are recurrence, reciprocation and recursion. The definitions used for these three practices are:

• Recurrence: A periodic and frequent performance of a practice
• Reciprocation: A give and take, or move and counter-move, with ones environment
• Recursion: An ongoing refinement or deepening of ones interpretations of Description, Meaning, Relevance, Value and Purpose.

To be competitive you must always be competing and to be competing you must always be learning. And the learning cannot be common learning or learned from entertainment. If it is, you will simply be producing more of the same and therefore not producing a competitive advantage.

What this means for Business Professionals is a change in their thinking and a change in their practices. You simply cannot continue with more of the same and expect to be able to compete in the marketplace. It is not possible to learn competitively without commitment, direction and focus. Once you stop learning, your competition will leave you far behind. Your practices, commitments and offers have to be performed and practiced with a high level of rigor to be competitive. Learning to compete and produce highly-valued offers, commitments to coordinate action and practices to take care of concerns or to produce situations in the top 1% of the marketplace is a competitive practice.

If you don’t understand your “Gaps” you may not think this is relative to you. What we mean is that if you don’t know your “Annual Income Gap” “Capital-at-work Gap” and “Knowledge Gap” or these “Gaps” even exist, you may think you are on track or be satisfied when really you are not producing sufficient income. Remember that we only have 40 years of career (ages 22-62) in which to earn enough to support our current lives and produce enough to support old age. People can live on smaller incomes, but will be forced to make compromises. Superior knowledge is required to produce competitive advantage, value and top 1% annual incomes and enterprise values. The only way to gain and maintain superior knowledge is through competitive learning.

Competitive Learning becomes valuable to you when it helps you. It will help you to produce moods that are effective for learning and these moods will emulate throughout your life. Competitive learning requires uncommon knowledge. Uncommon Knowledge will help you to produce new and increasingly valuable offers, commitments and practices. In order to increase your value, you want to produce Highly-Valued offers that others will want to accept and transact with you.

Competitive Learning’s purpose is to produce Highly-Valued offers for transaction, commitments to coordinate action with others and practices to take care of human and business concerns or to produce intended situations.