When will the world start to see NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) for what it really is? 'The new mental technology; the study of human excellence; The modelling of achievement' You must be joking! its hilarious and depressing at the same time.
And there's more... 'The map is not the territory', 'Meta practitioners' 'master practitioners' blah blah blah. last week I met someone who told me he had carried out "extensive research" when doing "my masters" and then talked in a pseudo-academic way about what he knew...."and thats a fact"
Point one - in the world I live in knowledge is tentative not absolute _ so telling me he knew something "as a fact" I found irritating (but I accept thats my problem not his).
Point two - and what irritated me further was that his "masters" was not a two year programme at a University. It was a week-long NLP programme to become a 'Master' practitioner of NLP. Give me a break you fraud. I'm persecuted by this type of nonsense
Derren Brown relates a story of how he didn't attend the course to become a 'Master' practitoner but they still sent him a certificate anyway.
I have no problem with the conceptual notion of NLP and *some* of the techniques, its just some of those charaltans who peddle it as some sort of paint-by-numbers psychology of human change that wind me up.
The guy who was telling me about his research started 'mirroring' me (an NLP technique). When I crossed my right leg over my left he did the same - trying his best to create some stype of subconsious connect and rapport. It was blatant. It was never subconscious. I rubbed my nose- he then rubbed his nose. He became confused about what he should do when I scratched my nether regions.
Perhaps 'How to establish subconscious rapport with a man who is itching his private parts' wasnt part of his 'masters'?
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