John Grinder thank you for your eye opening reply! For me I was seeking something that does not exist ie.  complete personal congruence. Too much listening to Tony Robbins tapes. I will be more careful where my attention goes. You write John: For example when I am in the presence of someone who is superb at X(and it really matters very little - with the exception of ethical lines - what X is) , I enter a state of incongruity. I now have identified X as someone I want to be able to do and I at present, cannot do X." John you have lost me with what you are writing here as I thinking  you are referring to a behavior as X or are you speaking of X as a person to be modeled? Can you be more explicit please? BTW, I do love your last statement which is, "I think that we will agree that removing such a sequence would reduce ym ability to learn." Are you assuming a state_intention_consequence SUBJECTIVE response when you say "use the automatic unconscious  reaction of a new code game to get into a high performance state?" curious and thankful again Robin