Before enlightenment we are too busy, too muddle-headed. We think of this and that, and we try to do things the wrong way. We don't focus our awareness. That's why we don't know many things. We cannot harness our energy. Yeah, too fast. Then we just discharge our energy, and we're tired at the end of the day. We've achieved nothing. The more you nervously do things, the less you achieve. So you think you haven't done anything.

After a while, the master tells you how to harness your energy, how to concentrate your awareness. Then that power helps you to be sharper in everything, to be more alert. You can accomplish more in a shorter time. Then you think after enlightenment, maybe you have more talent. It's not true; you always had it. You just have more attention now to use it, more awareness to bring it into realization.