YOUR MINDSET: FIXED OR DEVELOPING

The Movement meta-program (#8) contrasts static or fixed thinking with fluid or dynamic thinking. It is the contrast between what is called Aristotelian thinking and non-Aristotelian thinking, which for NLP people should ring a bell since that is the heart of Korzybski’s focus in General Semantics. He started from the scientific understanding that we live in a process universe where there are no absolute “things,” but that everything, down to the sub-atomic elements within an atom are all moving, changing, evolving, growing, and developing. If there are no solid “things” out there in the territory, then we really mis-map things when we use absolute and rigid language. Yet we do and we do so constantly.