You are a natural learning machine. You really are, AND you have genius potential! Don't believe it?
Your entire organism is designed to learn. From moment to moment every aspect of your being is providing valuable feedback to your brain and it does so faster than the most sophisticated computer.
Imagine this scene for one moment...
You go somewhere important to you and you bump into a very important person of whom you want to ask them something equally important.
You walk up to them and greet them. You say 'hello' and get the first four words of your request out of your mouth and something inside of you says, "stop!". It is your unconscious mind. In that moment you engage in self talk and go back to your unconscious mind and say, "why have you told me to stop?"
The unconscious mind comes back to you and says, "well, going on the dilation of their pupils, their blood pressure, body temperature, the tie they are wearing and that slight movement of their top lip, we can tell you that if you ask that question they are going to give you a negative response, so don't ask it."
You go back to your unconscious mind and say, "that's great, but I have just started to ask them and if I stop then they are going to think me weird."