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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
This is a continuation of a series of posts about NLP. For proper understanding, please read Part 1 and Part 2.
I’m going to be giving you the theories behind NLP. Now don’t be alarmed! This isn’t quite like school. It’ll actually be quite interesting. I will offer insights to how our mind operates. If it does not make sense immediately, take a break, come back, and read it again later.
It is important that we understand how we respond to words as well as how we use words to express our thoughts. We experience through our senses. We feel, hear, touch and see the world around us. Then we try to use words to express what we have experienced.
So what does language do? It lets us convey experience to others and lets us reflect on it ourselves.
Selectivity
The interesting thing is that we do not give equal weight to what we sense in our world. We don’t just sit back and take all the experiences in without doing something to it. We actually ignore a lot. (more…)
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
This is part 2 of the introduction to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). It offers some background of NLP and leads up to the meta-model. Please read the Introduction to NLP Part 1: The First Bite to build a proper lead-in to this post.
It all started at the University of California at Santa Cruz. It was there that a student of psychology, Richard Bandler, and an assistant professor of linguistics, John Grinder, met to lay the foundations of NLP. Both were interested in understanding why people do what they do.
Both were also fascinated with modeling, which is taking a skill and finding out how it is done so it can be taught to others. They believed that modeling successful performance leads to high achievement. If one can learn how to be great, then it is possible to model that person and use it to teach others to be great as well.
They agreed that modeling would be deemed successful if they could help others achieve similar results by following the model.
Initially, Bandler and Grinder were largely influenced by three people. (more…)
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
I’m introducing to you something that most people do not know about. The ones who have are likely to be sales people or executives who have access to the latest and greatest in self-improvement. NLP was also much more publicly known back in the 1970s and 1980s. It has since not received media exposure. However, many known figures such as Anthony Robbins and other self help gurus use it or the ideas behind it extensively. It has been continuously developed for almost 40 years.
What is NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) all about?
It is a study of how to make someone excellent. It all started with the search for the ultimate question. How can you change someone to become a star performer in life? There has to be some way of breaking down the elements of successful people, and then use these elements to help others.
Look all around you. There are teachers who are far better than most of their counterparts. There are athletes who do not seem human and break records, which were once thought unbeatable. There are business managers who are consistently successful in motivating their employees and achieving financial success. There are absolutely amazing people on television who seem to have that “charisma”. They speak confidently in front of huge crowds. They create cult like followings (ex. Steve Jobs).
Most people think that these people have some type of gift given at birth. (more…)
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