Step 10: Learn From Your Own Experience
Mind Over Body: A Healthy Lifestyle Plan for Success
-- By Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology Expert
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Some of this will be “book" learning—the facts, figures and concepts, such as those that you've read in the Mind over Body Fat Plan, and the other resources on SparkPeople. But the most important learning you need to do involves learning from your own experience. This takes a whole different set of skills than those involved in absorbing what other people can tell you.
The ancient Greeks had a word for this other form of learning: praxis. Praxis is a four-stage process of:
- Observing your own actions and their effects
- Analyzing what you observe
- Strategizing an action plan
- Taking action

















