Matt Caulfield recently wrote a post on his blog about using the Socratic Method to teach NLP. He wrote:
NLP nowadays is often taught as a series of tips or techniques to be used in certain situations. Sadly I think this missing the point and is, to be blunt, the most basic and trivial of uses of NLP. It does not teach the student to THINK, it merely teaches the student the trainers own limitations.
I completely agree with him. It would be like saying that hypnosis serves to make people quack like ducks on a stage. Yes, you can use it to produce that result. But it’s leveraging a fifth of what hypnosis has to offer.
If you perceive NLP just as a means to attract people from the opposite sex or a way to manipulate someone into a sale, you’re short-selling yourself.
As John Grinder once told me: “standing on the back of a whale fishing for minnows…”
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