It’s unfortunate that this book is not marketed better because I believe everyone can benefit from reading it. Who am I to say this? I am not a professional psychologist or therapist — I don’t work in the field. I stumbled upon this book after reading “Introducing NLP”. That book offered me tools to break through situations where I used to freeze up or be inefficient by putting myself in the correct state to get things done. It also gave me tools to communicate more effectively with others by first building rapport and then communicating more in line with the other person’s mode of thinking.
Having benefited from reading about NLP, I wanted to know more about it. The Amazon description for this book says its the seminal work in NLP but doesn’t really say much about what that means or what it can do for you personally. There’s no “look inside” option. Some of the reviews mention this book is for psychotherapists. I want you to know more about it so you can make a more informed decision as to buy it or not.
This book is written for therapists but I understood it without being one. The authors explicitly wrote the meta-model so that anyone can use it. They describe how we as people cannot see the world for how it is because of neurological, social, and individual constraints — we create our own model of the world that we act on. They argue that every individual makes the best decision based on the choices from which they are aware; that successful people have many options to choose from in their model of the world while unsuccessful people have limited options to choose from. So the way to be more successful at doing something is to open up more choices to choose from. How? This is where the meta-model comes in to play.
The authors describe the meta-model as a way of asking questions to uncover what is lost in a person’s model of the world thats preventing them from making effective decisions in their life. We think using language. Often in a way that deletes, distorts, generalizes, presupposes, and nominalizes events, which prevents us from seeing whats really there. The meta-model is a way of questioning our language so that we can work our way back to more raw perceptions of the world so that we can create more options in our model to make better decisions.
There’s a lot more to this book then what I described, but that is the main piece. The authors also included conversations between therapists and clients using the meta-model to solve problems.
This book has had a major impact on me. I’ve used the techniques on myself to work on my problems. I used the meta-model on myself to breakdown my generalizations on my career-outlook and personal life to create more opportunities for myself to achieve my goals. You don’t need to be a therapist or specialized expert to benefit from this book. Anyone can.
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A prerequisite for any act of therapy
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