THE ART OF PRIMING— PART II
If priming is creating response potential in someone by the way you use language, use semantic space, use metaphors, etc., then priming is also a powerful communication tool for a professional Coach and especially for Meta-Coaches.
If priming is creating response potential in someone by the way you use language, use semantic space, use metaphors, etc., then priming is also a powerful communication tool for a professional Coach and especially for Meta-Coaches.
What makes priming a powerful force in everyday life is that we are making subtle suggestions to a person’s unconscious mind which, in turn, influences his or her subsequent behavior. This was the discovery that Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde discovered when they, as neuro-scientists, modeled the tricks that magicians use in their magic shows. Magicians? Magic Shows? Neuro-scientists?! Yes, it is all in their 2011 book, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic reveals about our brains.
For example, in terms of the speed that your brain can function, here is a set of questions. See if you can answer these questions as quickly as you can: What color is snow? What color are clouds? What color is whipped cream? What color are polar bears? What do cows drink?