“Managing a creative process is about avoiding doing things yourself unless it’s clear you are the best person to do it. Then you go for it.” – Mark Charmer 2008 P.S. It’s really cool when you know the people who provide your quotes – thanks Mark
Category: NLP
Go ahead be unreasonable!
Progress is due to the unreasonable person. The reasonable person seeks to adjust to the world. The unreasonable person seeks to change it. – George Bernard Shaw
NLP Gems – [6] You cannot not communicate
Human beings are constantly communicating. We are all tied into one another at some social context. We are all tuned in to each other in one way or another. We are forever interpreting our experience of what’s there, whether it is through a look, or a word or two or our behaviour. We also interpret what…
NLP Gems – [5] Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention.
This core presupposition of NLP seems to provoke many a strong reaction in people on their first introduction to presuppositions of NLP. Of all the NLP presuppositions, this one is perhaps the most frequently misunderstood and many people object to this statement. As used in NLP, “Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention” is…
NLP Gems – [4] People already have all the resources they need in order to effect a change and succeed
Most of us have the same nervous system and set of senses to interpret and respond to what is going around us. All that we experience has a structure, and that structure is derived from our senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory or gustatory). Therefore if every experience is composed…
NLP Gems – [3] The meaning of your communication is the response you get
This is one of the core presuppositions in NLP. It drives you to accept full responsibility for results you receive in your communication. If you get a response you are not expecting, then only you can change the basis of your communication. Remember everyone experiences life through his or her model of the world. Richard…
NLP Gems – [2] “Understand that everyone has their own model of the world”
The road to rapport** is based on the knowledge and understanding from the previous NLP gem [1]. You now know that everyone occupies and functions in a world of self defined reality; we need to understand that everyone else in the world is making up the same things. The best part is that you now…
NLP Gems – [1] “The Map is Not the Territory”
Your thinking and your physiology are closely tied together. What this means is that it is your thinking that affects how you feel at all times. Conversely your feelings affect how you think at all times. A good communicator with good sensory acuity can fine-tune their communication, by simply tuning into the way other people…