What is NLP (Neuro Linguistic Program)?
Posted by Ben TienDec 8
What is NLP (Neuro Linguistic Program)?
Well, there are many definitions about it:
- Richard Bandler’s “NLP is how we use the language of the mind to achieve our specific and desired outcomes”
- Sue Knights “NLP is the study of what works in thinking, language and behavior. It is a way of coding and reproducing excellence that enables you to consistently achieve the results that you want both for yourself, for your business and for your life”
- Oxford English Dictionaries “NLP provides a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behavior and the subjective experiences underlying them”
According to me “NLP is the principles for teaching, learning and personal development that provide you with a variety of strategies for maximizing both your professional performance and business/career potential”
If I am speaking to someone who is adverse to psychology, neurology or new techniques in general! Then regardless of the explanation I provide, they will instantly follow up with a question or statement like “Well those are just words”, “that doesn’t say what NLP does” or “How does NLP do that?” and/or “Where is the proof that NLP works?”
The problem with NLP though is the simple explanation will never really sum up or wanton of a better word; explain what NLP is… it will only ever be a teaser. For the example, Mathematics, well Maths is just learning how to Add up, Multiply and takeaway, for those of you wanting the proper definition of Mathematics it is the branch of science concerned with number, quantity, and space, either as abstract ideas (pure mathematics) or as applied to physics, engineering, and other subjects (Oxford Dictionary).
My explanation or Oxford’s your still none the wiser as to what Mathematics is, what it entails and what it enables us to do. It is only when you start to learn Maths that you start to realise that there are a whole range of techniques; Probability, Algorithm’s, Differentiation, etc, that are to be used in entirely separate occasions to fulfill a specific requirement.
After all its title is Neuro Linguistic programming?! NLP is further disadvantaged by the confusing names it titles its modules; Linguistic Presuppositions, Submodalities, Perceptual Positions… but let me ask you this, what did you think of “Algebra” when you first heard about it?
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