admin June 25th, 2009
Last week we looked at the battle against Mastery. This week we’re going to explore one of the Master Keys revealed in George Leonard’s superb book, Mastery. In this article, we’re going to explore the value of instruction.
My first experience of NLP was through reading a book. It was very interesting, & motivated me to learn more, but when I went on my first NLP course, I was blown away. You see, there were things that my instructor was capable of that could never be conveyed through a book.
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admin June 18th, 2009
Last week we looked at the unsatisfying alternatives to NLP Mastery. But given that Mastery is something we naturally do as small children (eg. learning to walk & talk), why is it so rare that we get on the Mastery as adults & stay there? Why are the Dabbler, the Hacker & the Obsessive so rare? In this article, I’m going to draw back the curtain on the battle AGAINST Mastery.
I was running an NLP Master Practitioner programme a few years ago, & we were playing with the patterns of Sleight of Mouth. We did a number of exercises, & I watched as people in the group started getting conscious competence with the patterns. I explained that if they wanted to truly master Sleight of Mouth, I recommended the following: Continue Reading »
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admin June 11th, 2009
Last week we started exploring NLP Mastery, the “royal road” to the highest levels of NLP skill. But why is true mastery so rare? The answer to that question lies in several “alternative paths” that are all too common in our society. In this article, I’m going to reveal the unsatisfying alternatives to NLP Mastery.
In George Leonard’s superb book “Mastery”, he describes “the Mastery curve”, characterised by occasional leaps in skill followed by long “practice plateaus” where committed practice yields no visible results. Each of these plateaus is followed by another leap in skill, followed by yet another plateau. Leonard says “learn to love the plateau”, because most of the mastery journey is spent there. Leonard goes on to identify 3 alternative paths, which I’ll share with you here.
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admin June 4th, 2009
Last week we explored behavioural flexibility. This week we’re going to start looking at the whole area of Mastery, desired by many & achieved by few. But what is mastery? In this article, I’ll reveal the nature of Mastery, & give you some ideas about why it can be so elusive.
When I was 10 years old, I bought an electric guitar. It hurt my fingers to play it, but I practiced enough to get the basics handled. I could strum the basic chord shapes & play a few songs, but not much else. In my teens, I took some guitar lessons & learned a few more songs, but was still an unremarkable player when I left school at 16. By the time I turned 20, I was the best guitarist anyone in my circle of friends knew. What happened between 16 & 20? I went on a journey.
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