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NEW META-MODEL DISTINCTION: Pseudo-Words
6. Pseudo-Words or Non-Referencing Words For clear thinking, reasoning, and communication the ability to distinguish true and false words is critical.
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HOW CAN I TELL IF YOU ARE COLLABORATIVE?
That’s my job this week!
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THERE ARE FACTS AND THERE ARE META-FACTS
If you have been following these articles on facts you know that not all facts are the same.
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NEW META-MODEL DISTINCTION: Either-Or Phrases
3. Either-Or Terms and Phrases If you want to narrow down your mind, your choices, and your creativity, there is an easy way to do it—think and reason in either-or terms.
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Once you have a health skepticism about “the facts” that you are regularly fed by the media, you can prepare yourself to think through those facts to determine their validity…
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Identity / Identification Identification speaks about the factor that Korzybski considered central to sanity and unsanity.
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“Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”
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When it came to the original Meta-Model, I never thought of it as exhaustive or “the last word” so that nothing else could be added to it.
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CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT FACTS
After writing about Media Ethics (#69) last week and writing about “facts,” I decided that I would do some critical thinking about facts.
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NEW META-MODEL DISTINCTION: Static Words
Several sent in questions this past week asking about when and how it came about that I extended the Meta-Model.
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QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MEDIA’S ETHICS
More than 25 years ago, Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and philosopher of Humanistic Psychology wrote several books about social problems.
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WHAT’S UP WITH PROTESTING MANDATES?
Over the past weekend (Oct.
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THE EXTENDED META-MODEL Under / Over Defined Words
You know about the original, classic Meta-Model of Language that was developed in NLP in 1975, that I have been covering in the past articles.
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WHY SELF-HELP BOOKS DON’T HELP
That was the question Geraldine asked.
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PRESUPPOSING DISTORTIONS
Having covered the first four distortions, there is the last one in the original Meta-Model list— presuppositions.
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MEDIA MANIPULATION
The book that took the longest to write was Inside-Out Persuasion.
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GUNS KILL PEOPLE
Here is an idea that gets lots and lots of publicity every time there is a shooting and yet it is an idea that is based on a fundamental confusion between agent and instrument.
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DISTORTIONS ALERT
The ability to twist and distort language so that you can construct new ideas and concepts holds the power to create exceedingly inventive things that can make life a hundred times…
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MY EYES TO YOUR EYES
Some years ago, I think it was when we were doing NSTT in Hong Kong, and we were talking about the ethics of training and some of the guidelines that we have established for…
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FORGET DEADLINES, THEY ARE DEADLY
Many people think that to get things done, to be productive, to accomplish goals, and to achieve their highest and best, they need deadlines.
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POVERTY CREATES CRIME
In an attempt to fight crime, some have taken to the mistaken idea that the cause of crime is poverty.
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AH, THE THINGS YOU HAVE DISTORTED!
If you want to know how people can really create strange, weird, destructive, and even pathological mental maps— look no further than the linguistic distortions.
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You may or may not be aware of the fact that we give certificates to 98% of the participants at NSTT during Trainers’ Training whereas with ACMC we provide 0% Certificates (the…
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Perhaps the most subtle way that people sneak perfectionism into their lives is by giving it different names.
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