Archive for the 'Model of the World' Category
Roots Have you ever been looking forward to a nice, easy, Saturday afternoon, doing nothing but reading the paper and watching whatever happens to be on TV, only to have your most well thought out plans for laziness destroyed by a friend in need? Rides to the airport, helping somebody clean out their garage, and [...]
April 27th, 2010 | Posted in Flexibility, Metaphor, Model of the World, Patience, Perception, Stories | No Comments
NEXT! The other day I was talking to a friend of mine from high school about this problem that she’s been having with her next-door neighbor and her daughter. She thinks that because they are not as quiet as they used to be, then that means that something has happened, and she is taking it [...]
April 21st, 2010 | Posted in Decisions, Metaphor, Model of the World, Social Skills, Stories | 1 Comment
Remember Who You Are Once there was this guy who lived in the sewer. He didn’t really mind living in the sewer, as it allowed him to live a life free from the worries of most day-to-day frustrations and anxieties. He didn’t have much money, but he didn’t really need anything. This particular sewer that [...]
April 20th, 2010 | Posted in Charisma, Choice, Fears, Metaphor, Model of the World, Mythology | No Comments
Where Am I? So what do you do when you suddenly find yourself lost? That’s what happened to me once. I heard from a friend of a friend about this magnificent party, and he’d heard from another friend some convoluted directions to get there. Both of us, and the friend, had only been living in [...]
April 19th, 2010 | Posted in Focus, Hypnosis, Life Skills, Memories, Memory Skills, Metaphor, Model of the World, Perception | No Comments
Pistols At Dawn I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and I noticed something interesting about her speech. She had always spoken like that, but I hadn’t talked to her in quite a while. Last time we spoke was before I had become interested in language, having read several books on linguistics and [...]
April 18th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Language, Metaphor, Model of the World, NLP Tips, Social Anxiety, Social Skills | 1 Comment
Which Strategy Do You Prefer? Last week I was wandering around downtown, and I came across an interesting situation. There was a vending machine and next to the vending machine was a trash can overflowing with vending machine food and wrappers. On top of the machine was a crow, and next to the trashcan was [...]
April 15th, 2010 | Posted in Evolution, Flexibility, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments
Finders Keepers So I went down to the video store the other day to return this DVD that I’d forgotten about. It was about three weeks overdue and I thought I might get into big trouble, or at least have to pay a big fine. I really should look into netflix or something similar. So [...]
April 11th, 2010 | Posted in Flexibility, Focus, Goals, Metaphor, Model of the World, Stories | No Comments
Captain, That Is Illogical Here’s an interesting mind experiment. Ready? Here is the situation; you have four cards, with the following faces showing. D, 7, 3, F. You are told that each card has a number on one side, and a letter on the other. Now you are given a statement: On every card that [...]
April 9th, 2010 | Posted in Body Language, Body Language and Flirting, Brain Power, Conversation Skills, Covert Persuasion, Evolution, Language, Model of the World | No Comments
Wrong Turn The other day I went out for a walk, and since I’m living in a new neighborhood, I wasn’t quite sure where I was going. When I started out, I looked around to make sure I could see some big landmarks, in case I got lost, I could find my way back. I [...]
April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Flexibility, Hypnosis, Metaphor, Model of the World, Stories | 1 Comment
Definitions I remember when I was a kid, I showed up to school (it was second or third grade) and my friend had this great puzzle that he couldn’t wait to share with me. It was one of those mind puzzles that is designed to trick you into answering one way, when in reality the [...]
April 1st, 2010 | Posted in Flexibility, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments