Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Immersion

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 7 • Episode 50

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From Ski Fails to Life Hacks: Unleash Your Inner Pro with Immersive Learning [Living Lucky® Podcast]

Tired of feeling like a beginner? This episode of Living Lucky® with Jason & Jana Banana is your cheat code to unlocking expert-level skills – fast. We ditch the classroom and dive headfirst into the powerful world of immersive learning.

Get ready to:

  • Crash a water ski tournament (without getting hurt) and discover how surrounding yourself with pros catapults your learning curve. (Spoiler alert: Putting on your skis at the dock is a game-changer!)
  • Conquer your fear of looking foolish. We get vulnerable about feeling out of our league, but how embracing the risk led to massive growth.
  • Learn from the failures (and triumphs) of others. We show you how to leverage the experiences of those who've gone before you to shortcut your path to success.
  • Turn bookworms into badasses. Discover how immersing yourself in the wisdom of great books can pack a lifetime of knowledge into just a few hours.

Feeling stuck? This episode is your key to unlocking hidden potential. Learn how to transform any situation into a powerful learning experience and watch your skills soar.

Bonus nuggets:

  • Overcome the "I don't know what I don't know" barrier.
  • Learn valuable tips and tricks from seasoned veterans (including the magic of broomstick balancing!).
  • Tap into the confidence that comes from being surrounded by experts.

Ready to ditch the struggle and start thriving? Press play and let's turn your learning curve into a rocket ship!

Keywords: Immersive Learning, Personal Growth, Overcoming Fear, Learning from Others, Water Skiing, Life Hacks, Living Lucky®, Jason Shelfer, Jana Shelfer, Inspiration, Motivation, Adaptive Skiing, Adaptive Sports, Champion Mindset, High Performance Coaching, Action Over Inaction

#ImmersiveLearning #GrowthMindset #ConquerYourFear #LivingLucky #WaterSkiing #AdaptiveSkiing #AdaptiveSports #HighPerformanceCoaching #ChampionMindset #LifeHacks #OvercomingFear

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*Previously Recorded

Jana Shelfer:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer:

Good morning.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm Jana, I' Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are too, you know. My Spanish teacher always said the best way to learn Spanish is to go to Spain. My Spanish teacher always said the best way to learn.

Jason Shelfer:

And my Spanish teacher always said "hola como esta?

Jana Shelfer:

Immersion. Today we're talking about immersion. We just got back from our water ski tournament.

Jason Shelfer:

You were awesome, thank you, you were incredible. I was pretty incredible myself, but you were. You were actually the performer and I was the assistant and just the supporter and kind of like the sideline guy.

Jana Shelfer:

I will say we learned more this past four days Four days than we have in our entire since we bought the ski.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, absolutely Right. Yes, and it was because we were around people who have been doing the sport and been practicing and been getting to the elite levels of performance.

Jana Shelfer:

I mean from the very, very first day, which was just the qualifying day, I realized I've been getting in the ski wrong. Well, one of the Everybody gets in their ski on the dock.

Jason Shelfer:

That's a lot easier.

Jana Shelfer:

I mean, I spent a year learning how to get in the ski in the water, which you need to know how to do. That too, Don't get me wrong. But everybody gets in their ski.

Jason Shelfer:

For that first run, which is the most important run.

Jana Shelfer:

On the dock?

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, and then someone just pushes them back, or they push themselves, or someone pushes them back off the dock into the water.

Jana Shelfer:

I had no idea. We don't know what we don't know. How many times have you heard Jason and I say that on this podcast? We don't know what we don't know. How many times have you heard Jason and I say that on this podcast? We don't know what, we don't know and sometimes we don't know the questions to ask because we don't know the knowledge, we're not aware of the possibilities.

Jason Shelfer:

If you don't know the door is there, you don't know to knock on it.

Jana Shelfer:

Right, yeah, I mean, even from that very first day I was just blown away of. Oh my gosh. I have been living in the dark and I didn't even realize it.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, going to the competition, this was the actual first time we've ever seen a mini course or an inner course.

Jana Shelfer:

Or another sit skier really.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah right, Especially one that competes. One that's independent oh yeah, that's a. That's a big thing. We made an effort to find an independent one at the at traverse ski school, but we we just kept crossing paths.

Jana Shelfer:

It has been an eye-opener for us, to say the least. But I will say, in the last four days our learning curve has shortened immensely. So the lesson that I want to just share with everybody is that, if you want to learn anything, if there is a skill, if there is something that you want to get better at, even if you don't feel prepared, even if you don't feel you're ready, even if, even if jump in, jump in and immerse yourself.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, Cause all you're going to do is get better. I mean, it's, it's one of those things that just kind of you're going to learn by seeing, you're going to learn by hearing, you're going to learn by just being in that present state of mind, in the situation. You can't help but do it. It's, it's one of those things you become the people that you're around the most and when you're in the environment, you pick up from the environment.

Jana Shelfer:

I will say, though there's that I mean. The reason we don't jump is, ooh what if I feel stupid?

Jason Shelfer:

What if I?

Jana Shelfer:

feel like a fool. And here's the perfect example I entered the trick ski. I've never even done a single trick on a trick ski. Jason and I put together a trick ski on Sunday night.

Jason Shelfer:

The Sunday night before the competition which started on Wednesday.

Jana Shelfer:

We took one of his old wake boards and we drilled holes in it. We took it to Ace Hardware, we took it to the auto body shop Joe's Auto Body Shop and we said help us out, you need to put some holes over here.

Jason Shelfer:

The steel bottom of the cage, the support system of the cage, so that we could have some extra holes because we don't know where we're drilling.

Jana Shelfer:

And then took it to ace hardware. We said we need some screws some washers and we literally built this thing and then we had the opportunity to get out on it. One time now, I happened to get up on it, so that was the biggest on the second try so I got up and I was like, yeah, it's like she can do it.

Jason Shelfer:

I like she can do it. I'm a natural, we're in it, I'm a natural.

Jana Shelfer:

However, I had never done a single trick. Every time I tried to do anything, even just turning sideways.

Jason Shelfer:

Dump over.

Jana Shelfer:

I would catch an edge is what they call it. Catch an edge and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. However, once I qualified for Slalom, you qualify for all of the categories. So I thought, well, while I'm there, I might as well just Experience it.

Jason Shelfer:

Experience it, immerse yourself in it.

Jana Shelfer:

I signed up for Trickski Now. Because I signed up late, I had to go first. You were afforded the opportunity to go first. Okay, so now this is jumping in and here are the fears that you experience, and this is natural, this is human, but I'm just going to be vulnerable right now and I'm going to share with all of you, so I go first. I didn't get up on my first try and I'm hearing people on the dock going oh my gosh, it's our first try.

Jason Shelfer:

Oh my gosh?

Jana Shelfer:

does she need someone to jump in the water and help her start? You know like I'm hearing these things and they're just trying to be helpful. They're just trying to support me, yet it's starting to build anxiety. In a competition. You only get two tries. You only get two tries to start.

Jana Shelfer:

And here's the thing is. I knew the boat was off to the side, and I knew that I was new enough that I needed the boat directly in front of me. However, I was too scared to say anything, because then that would make everybody think that I am a total amateur, which. I am, but I didn't want everyone else to know that I don't want to show my cards.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm a competitive person. I want to be able to do it the way all these competitive people do it.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so I didn't get up the first try, so then the boat comes around, I've got one more shot to get up and this is being broadcast. This is kind of a big deal.

Jason Shelfer:

There's a drone in my face. They're selecting for the USA national team.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah. So there's like a selection process. People are watching this is a big deal and I get up and I'm like, okay, I got this, I got this. I wait for the green buoy, because once the green buoy, the start gate. That's where you start your tricks, and you have 20 seconds to start your tricks, which I have.

Jason Shelfer:

None, I have no tricks, yeah, before you even got in the water. Nobody knows this. The question was what are the tricks, first of all, and then when do I start? And what does it look like out there? Because we had no idea.

Jana Shelfer:

We didn't even have any idea what the format of the program was I didn't even know that I needed a different rope.

Jason Shelfer:

Or to bring your own.

Jana Shelfer:

And yeah, they were like where's your rope? I'm like rope, what I thought, I thought, and then I was like I'll just use my slalom rope. And they were like no trick, ski is a totally different rope. When you don't know what you don't know, and then they were like what speed do you go at?

Jason Shelfer:

And I'm like huh, huh, let me throw a number out yeah, and I'm like 37.

Jana Shelfer:

They're like oh, no, no, no, that's not the speed you want to go, it's 15.

Jason Shelfer:

Miss shelfer, you know you've got fins on the bottom of your board, don't?

Jana Shelfer:

you like you'll die at 37. I'm like, oh, I don't want that.

Jason Shelfer:

Probably won't die.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay. So we get up, we get going, we pass the buoy and all of a sudden it's time to start your tricks. I have no tricks, okay, so I'm just like waving at the camera. I'm like, hey, I can do ballet.

Jason Shelfer:

I can make faces like have fun out here here.

Jana Shelfer:

You can definitely have fun, I know that. And then I tried my first trick and I fell. Okay, now I this this really isn't unexpected, but you know, hey, it happened. Now I thought that once you fall, you're out. I didn't even know, once you fall, it's over honey. I didn't even know the rules of the game, because that's how it is in Slalom Once you fall you're done.

Jason Shelfer:

That pass of the course is over.

Jana Shelfer:

You're done, You're just done, and so I'm like, oh well, that was fun. I'm glad I tried. You know I have this Midwestern attitude. Oh, there's always next time.

Jason Shelfer:

I gave it my old Midwestern try.

Jana Shelfer:

Atta girl, atta girl, you know, I'm just grateful to be out here. Thank you to the boat driver, thank you to everybody. And so I literally hop on. I'm taking everybody's time. I'm hopping on the back of the boat and they're like you can't ride there. You got to actually hop in the boat and I'm like, oh my gosh.

Jason Shelfer:

And for you in the moment it felt like a long time.

Jana Shelfer:

It felt like I was taking. It felt like I was in slow motion.

Jason Shelfer:

And for me on the dock, it felt like just a normal ride, just for perspective.

Jana Shelfer:

So I'm trying to transfer in the boat. I'm feeling inadequate, I'm feeling slow, and finally this guy comes over and kind of grabs my life jacket kind of drags me in the boat.

Jason Shelfer:

Like a hoist.

Jana Shelfer:

And then he's like, are you going to go? Again, like, after I had said, okay, back to the dock, we go. That was fun. Thank you guys, I'm calling it a day so we're on our way back to the dock and he's like you have another turn and I'm like what?

Jason Shelfer:

And he's like yeah trick ski.

Jana Shelfer:

You have two passes. What we don't know, we don't know, so that's my whole thing is at in that moment, I felt foolish, I felt dumb, I felt ignorant. I had every emotion that you possibly could think of. I felt like I wasn't enough.

Jason Shelfer:

I felt the lowest of the totem pole, but underneath all those you also had the pride. So, because I know those are there, because you wouldn't be in the competition if you didn't have the pride and the excitement and and just the knowing that you're doing it. But what happens is, is that the wake and the, the, the wave of all the like, when the fall happens, it's almost like the water comes over you with all these emotions of I failed, I fell, I'm not like things went wrong, I didn't know what I didn't know.

Jana Shelfer:

I just felt out of my league. I'm like I didn't even know the rules of the game.

Jason Shelfer:

It makes you want to go back and prepare more.

Jana Shelfer:

Here I was fighting to be in this competition and I didn't even take the time to know the rules of the game.

Jason Shelfer:

But I saw you doing your research, like we watched hours of video. We did the things that we knew to do and we didn't have a list of people to reach out to immediately, so we did. And that's where the immersion comes in. Like it's a you can't get perfect right A lot of times we sit and we want to, we want to train, we want to practice, we want to do all these things and get perfect so that when we show up, we show up and we win. Yeah, and the win is immersion. The win is getting to the start line and getting in the race and learning from the people that have been, that took their first turn in the race.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

And like you say it all the time, let's stand on the shoulders of the people that have gone before us and let's be the shoulders for the people that are coming from behind us.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, and on that note, I just want to thank Raquel for letting me use her rope.

Jason Shelfer:

Right.

Jana Shelfer:

And she was just so full of knowledge. The whole weekend she was constantly saying, okay, you're going to want to do this. And when you get your next trick ski, you're going to want to sit on a broomstick.

Jason Shelfer:

Lay it flat, don't stand it up.

Jana Shelfer:

Jason's like you mean like vertical. I'm like no, no, I'm not putting a broomstick up my butt.

Jason Shelfer:

Sometimes we can wish.

Jana Shelfer:

No, you put your board on a broomstick to balance to find your balance point. That's the trick there.

Jason Shelfer:

Find out that center point of the board and then, when you're out there on the water, you're going to keep your eyes on the horizon and your head straight and you keep the rope near the cage.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, ah, close to your body so immersion is where you learn all the hacks, all the, the tips and tricks yeah, you learn from the failures and the successes of the people that have gone before you and you also get to watch and see and listen and just hear, okay, what went wrong, what went well, and all those questions that we ask on a daily basis, of the things that it's so cool to learn from other people's experiences.

Jana Shelfer:

It shortens the learning curve.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes.

Jana Shelfer:

It's like when I read a book, I feel like people have put their lifetime of knowledge into one book and I think how lucky am I that I get to sit down and read that book in five, six hours? What has taken them a lifetime to learn?

Jason Shelfer:

Bam. You've just immersed yourself into their life experiences and hopefully they've articulated it in a way that you can take the main nuggets and the main points out and now you can apply that to your next six hours experience of whatever you're putting forward.

Jana Shelfer:

Thanks, for joining us today. Keep living. Lucky appeals to you. Visit us at www. LivingLucky. com.