I recently did a course on NLP - I came as sceptic, and left the course as a sceptic - but I desperately wanted to believe that it worked - but came away with the opinion that it was nothing more than positive thinking, goal setting, visualisation exercises, body language matching wrapped up in lots of pseudo science jargon.
Its not just NLP, there seems to be glut of people everywhere giving advice on how to be "successful". Goal Setting, “get outsides comfort zones”, The Secret, positive thinking, science of getting rich, Tony Robbins, Scientology, thousands of websites, thousands of people who purport to have answer on how to life your life.
There seems to be an entire creepy culture of people out there using this type of material in the workplace, and in their lives which tends to revolve around goal setting. These type of creepy people are everywhere- and you know when around them.
Bottom line is none of this type of Self Improvement material actually gets down to the nitty gritty, or any level of detail on real people lives, it teaches people to stick rigidly to goals, miss opportunities in their lives and stay in there place. Self improvement material is for the simpleminded.
It prevents people from thinking naturally, doing what they enjoy, being a real person, encourages them to set goals which waste there time and act with a fake personality- You'll find the most enthusiastic Self improver's, NLP types are generally very self obsessed, mediocre, unhappy people. My point is these people read this stuff, and talk and talk - but ultimately don't achieve anything more than they would achieve with there own commonsense- in fact achieve less because they waste time and alienate people around them.
Can anyone give some genuine examples where any self improvement material has worked? I mean real world – PLEASE no self improvement jargon. I am talking about genuine achievements – doing some which very very difficult – no crap like it helped me exercise 3 times a week or quit smoking, or get to work earlier.
exercise
Its not just NLP, there seems to be glut of people everywhere giving advice on how to be "successful". Goal Setting, “get outsides comfort zones”, The Secret, positive thinking, science of getting rich, Tony Robbins, Scientology, thousands of websites, thousands of people who purport to have answer on how to life your life.
There seems to be an entire creepy culture of people out there using this type of material in the workplace, and in their lives which tends to revolve around goal setting. These type of creepy people are everywhere- and you know when around them.
Bottom line is none of this type of Self Improvement material actually gets down to the nitty gritty, or any level of detail on real people lives, it teaches people to stick rigidly to goals, miss opportunities in their lives and stay in there place. Self improvement material is for the simpleminded.
It prevents people from thinking naturally, doing what they enjoy, being a real person, encourages them to set goals which waste there time and act with a fake personality- You'll find the most enthusiastic Self improver's, NLP types are generally very self obsessed, mediocre, unhappy people. My point is these people read this stuff, and talk and talk - but ultimately don't achieve anything more than they would achieve with there own commonsense- in fact achieve less because they waste time and alienate people around them.
Can anyone give some genuine examples where any self improvement material has worked? I mean real world – PLEASE no self improvement jargon. I am talking about genuine achievements – doing some which very very difficult – no crap like it helped me exercise 3 times a week or quit smoking, or get to work earlier.
exercise