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NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate: The Pygmalion Effect

4. July 2006

Something came to me so obviously connected with the NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate post that I regret not putting it up. Have you ever heard of the Pygmalion effect? It refers to situations in which people perform better than other people simply because they are expected to do so. In a study conducted by Robert [...]

NLP 101: People Are Not Broken

28. June 2006

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People are not broken In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we believe that people are not broken, and they work perfectly. For example, a phobia is normally considered a ‘bad’ thing, someone who has an irrational phobia of envelopes is considered ‘broken’. But the phobia works perfectly, there is never an instance when the phobia doesn’t work. If you [...]

NLP 101: People are Always Making The Best Choices They Have

24. June 2006

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If I told you that one of the key presuppositions in Neuro-Linguistic Programming was: People are always making the best choices they have you might think I was off my rocker. “Alvin,” you might say, “what about people who abuse their bodies with drugs and alcohol, take it out on their kids, and listen to euro-trance? You can’t [...]

NLP 101 Thoughts: You Cannot Not Change The World

19. June 2006

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I was musing over the last NLP presupposition I talked about; ‘You Cannot Not Communicate‘, when I asked myself this question: ‘what if it was taken to its extreme; “You Cannot Not Change The World” instead?’ Now, I don’t mean this in a kooky, touchy-feely kind of way, but I think it might be an interesting [...]

NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate

16. June 2006

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The obvious follow-up to a post like The Meaning of Your Communication is The Response You Get is this next Neuro-Linguistic Programming presupposition: You Cannot Not Communicate We’re all always communicating, even when we don’t mean to or want to. Remember when I wrote that words only form 7% or so of our communication, the rest is [...]

NLP 101: The Meaning of Your Communication is The Response You Get

14. June 2006

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In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): The Meaning Of Your Communication is The Response You Get Ever have a time when you were sure you were being totally clear, but the other person heard something else? One way to deal with that is to blame: it’s their fault they didn’t get it. But then they didn’t get it, you didn’t [...]

NLP 101: Every Behaviour Has A Positive Intention

9. June 2006

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The most controversial and easily misunderstood of all the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) presuppositions: Every behaviour has a positive intention Widely contested and misunderstood, until you add in this second half that makes it easier to understand: Every behaviour has a positive intention, just not always for everyone else Every behaviour you, I and everyone else engages in, has a [...]

NLP 101: There is No Failure Only Learning Experience

7. June 2006

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Continuing with the NLP 101 series, we come to the next presupposition: There is No Failure Only Feedback (I prefer to say Learning Experience) In NLP we say there is no such thing as success, failure, happiness, depression, good taste (accounts for euro-trance). Not that people don’t feel these things, but that they’re convenient labels we tack [...]

NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory

31. May 2006

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What are The NLP Presuppositions? The most basic and essential parts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) are the presuppositions. Think of the NLP presuppositions as the guiding principles or beliefs holding the NLP model up, like how a programming language maintains an entire computer operating system. Without the programming language, you can’t build the operating system and [...]

NLP 101: How NLP Changed My Life

29. May 2006

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In NLP 101: So Dark the Con of NLP, I said that the most important bit about NLP isn’t if it’s real, if it’s fake, or even if it’s a marshmellow. The most important bit is if it works for you, in your own life. So let me share with you a little bit about how [...]

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NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate: The Pygmalion Effect

NLP 101: People Are Not Broken

NLP 101: People are Always Making The Best Choices They Have

NLP 101 Thoughts: You Cannot Not Change The World

NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate

NLP 101: The Meaning of Your Communication is The Response You Get

NLP 101: Every Behaviour Has A Positive Intention

NLP 101: There is No Failure Only Learning Experience

NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory

NLP 101: How NLP Changed My Life

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