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| Faster, bigger, better? | The faster, bigger, better question -- NLP
for me is the ability to replicate what someone else is
able to experience, a celebration of choice. If I want to
replicate a strategy that doesn't accomplish as much as
the one I presently have, I could do that. I don't. If
someone else experiences a state of bodymind that I would
like to experience, then it's time to get to work. The
presupposition is that this is a better state, and a good
start is normally a happier state. But it may also be a
sense of awe or wonder, a sense of humility, a sense of
peace. All of these can be more useful states. Yet, they
can be slower, smaller, less as well. Useful
to accomplish what? I don't allow myself the lack of
choice in thinking of one goal (goals may be gaols), but
instead I think of a direction. A definition of a
straight line is your starting point and another -- a
milestone or your goal. Many milestones, or many goals,
mean a line that changes direction, but at some deeper
level, the change is always constant. I find it more
useful to think in terms of directions than goals because
the best way of describing a direction often produces a prescription
of the direction -- the "what" and the
"how" converge. Goals do similarly, but they
are also implicitly limiting; goals can be gaols. One
direction allows you multiple goals. In this way, to ask
to what end we are evolving (ourselves?) is to presuppose
something that may well not be useful. To ask whether this is
right, or whether this is true may also be
presupposing something that may well not be a useful part
of your experience. It also seems to me that the driver causes the difference in views here is the assumption that there's some special validity to "truth", and I'm not at all sure that that's the case. I subscribe special validity to "usefulness" because I choose to, not because I've found it useful (although I have), and not because I believe it to be true (I did, but I found that was just a usefully transitory mapping between "true" and "useful"). |
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have suggested we are evolving to make everything faster,
bigger and better. Is NLP a part of this?
Last updated: 26 September 1997 |
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