WHEN YOU’RE NOT CAREFUL

Last week I read a book from a “Master” NLP Trainer which was at times excellent and at times a mess. In parts of the book what he wrote expanded my understandings about things, and in other parts, he made a real mess of NLP. When Geraldine saw me roll my eyes and non-verbally express my astonishment that anyone with any experience in NLP could write such non-sense— she asked me what I was reading and what I was responding to. I told her that the author is “not a careful reader or writer.” When she wanted to know more about what that meant, I said: “I don’t know how he did it— perhaps he was reading the original NLP manual or book to fast, perhaps he is processing globally and cannot see the details and make the distinctions, perhaps his options meta-program is driving him to ignore what was developed, perhaps he thinks he knows better ... I don’t know. All I know is that he has simply got the pattern or the concept extremely wrong.”