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Product review:
The Neuro Linguistic Programming Workbook: A Practical Guide to Achieving the Results You Want
by Joseph O’Connor

What is NLP? I hear some of you ask.

NLP is so complicated! - I hear some of you say.

The actual name, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is already by itself difficult enough for many people. And some of the books on the market for the self-learner are indeed full of technical terms that discourage newbies.

So why should I read a review on a book about NLP? - I hear you ask.

Because it is not complicated. Well, some people may make it complicated, but Joseph O’Connor certainly does not. He does a great work in clarifying things and is recommended as a first contact with the world of NLP.

Because, even without the aspiration to become a certified NLP practitioner, you can learn great concepts that will improve your life for good, in any field, be it romance, health, finance, anything. It is a great tool to become an achiever!

The reason supporting such strong statement is that the basic concepts of NLP will facilitate your establishment of goals, keeping track of them, taking the right actions to achieve them and most importantly learning how to become responsible and proactive. Keep on reading – this is interesting stuff.

Chapter 1
What is NLP?

A great question. When I first got contact with some sort of NLP I did not have a clear idea and all the concepts, especially patterns and commands, seemed very strange to me. Cognitive dissonance took place and I closed the NLP materials… for a long time, until I rediscovered the Neuro Linguistic Programming.

O’Connor admits that there are numerous possible definitions to what NLP is. He likes to describe NLP as the study and practice of how both individuals and also organizations can achieve outstanding results. These results can be replicated by teaching others in the “modelling” process.

Is it possible that identical twins living in the same home, same education, same family have completely different views on, say, smoking habits? Or eating vegetables? Of course! We have all seen that.

The reason for that is simple: the external world made of events does not have any absolute meaning. The meaning is created by individuals in their interpretation and association. Under this postulate, NLP studies which are the links inside each of us creating meaning of the external world.

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