Self-Learning it's Never Ending

byDBCrist

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5 years ago

Why Do We Want To Learn

Traditional Education is broken. It's a joke now to be taught by someone who has never made a dime in the private sector. I just took a couple of weeks off to take an on line course. I wanted to improve my communication skills so I took a NLP Course. My WA rank fell from 6898 to 10170 but I'm not here for the rank.

Subjective not Objective

For those of you that don't know what NLP is it stands for Neural Linguistic Programming. The study of the Structure of Subjective Experience and what can be calculated from it. Founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in 1976.

NLP believes People Are Inherently Good

To understand the basics you first should look at NLP pre-suppositions. When I first started reading these, it immediately brought to mind, the theory X and Y Management Styles that I learned back in the eighties. Simply put a Theory X manager basically thinks people are bad and inherently lazy, thus they must be managed with a strong hand. Theory Y on the other hand believes people are inherently good and want to do a good job, they can be managed with a more enlightened attitude. While theory X is productive in the short term it doesn't age well and causes problems down the road. Theory Y is preferable but can go to the other extreme with people taking advantage.

Now lets look at the pre-suppositions

• Each behavior was the best choice an individual had at that particular time.
• Behind every behavior lies a positive intention
• There is no such thing as failure only feedback exists
• If what you do doesn't work try something different
• The map is not the territory, perception is projection
• The individual with the most flexibility wins
• You cannot not communicate/manipulate
• Everyone already has the needed resources available to achieve desired results
• there are no incapable people only incapable states.
• The body is the mind
• The past is not equal to the future
• People aren't broken
• Everything is achievable
• Empowerment comes via responsibility
• People respond to perception not reality

Should Be Taught In High School

I think anyone reading these would have to agree that they are very humanistic assumptions and I wonder why they are not taught in Colleges and Universities and given as management classes within organizations, more consistently. It's about forming dis-empowering beliefs, they feel that all beliefs are limited by nature, and that we don't know what we don't know. When we respond to opinion, feelings and thoughts it's because of limiting beliefs.

We Eliminate More Than We Take In

They incorporate Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and how the brain filters external information coming in based on our inner perceptions our story, ( taking from Norm Chomsky 1957), the brain actually eliminates 80% of the data flowing into it. Scary huh?

Locus of Control

Life manifests itself from the inside out. It starts with our thoughts then to our attitudes, through our beliefs, and finally our feelings. Just a little to get you interested, stay tuned for my next post, where I'll cover the five ways we experience life and a lot more.

As always, thanks for visiting. Dave