Do Not Think of a Pink Elephant, or: Where One Puts One's Attention...

by Roger W. Vaisey

NLP (short for Now lets Play or Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a fascinating set of distinctions for understanding human behavior and building models of excellence and mastery in any field of human endeavor.

One of the basic presuppositions of the model is that everyone lives in their own inner world and that we all build maps of the world out there, beyond our perception, in order to make sense of our surroundings and to live our daily lives. It makes the powerful insight that we do not share the same reality although we think we do.

NLP is about many things and one of the things it is, is an understanding of differences in where we place our attention.