Archive for April, 2008
#32 Language Series 04: Meta-Model – Deletions
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This is the third and last podcast on the Meta-Model in this language series, to be followed by Sleight of Mouth patterns, and the Milton Model patterns, each a small series in itself.
Stumbling On Happiness
Dan Gilberts’ talk at TED on Happiness. Technocrati Tags: dan gilbert, happiness, stumbling on happiness, Radical NLP, brain
Feynman – The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feynman is one of this groups’ favorite poeple, a true genius of our times. Here is an opportunity to watch this man in action and decide for yourself
The Corporation Is Available as a Free Download -
The award winning Canadian documentary ‘The Corporation’ has been released on BitTorrent for free. Filmmaker Mark Achbar just released an updated “official” torrent of it. Everyone is free to download, watch, discuss, and share it. The Corporation received more than 20 awards, including an audience award at the the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The Film [...]
Can the Brain Be Rebooted to Stop Drug Addiction?
If you are a regular on our podcasts/blog, then this is an article that would perhaps be of interest to youCan the Brain Be Rebooted to Stop Drug Addiction?: Scientific American Scientists for the first time have identified long-term changes in mice brains that may shed light on why addicts get hooked on drugs—in this [...]
Happiness Is An Inside Job
ABSTRACT If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Ricard will examine the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead us to a way of looking at the mind itself [...]
#31 Language Series 03: Meta-Model – Distortions
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This is the second in the series of talks on the Meta-Model, where we cover five patterns of distortions: Nominalizations Modal operators of possibility Modal operators of necessity Presuppositions Mind Reading As before, we chose our examples from 3 different areas: Politics Relationship Business operations And we run each pattern through three examples from [...]
Frank Herbert interview. Political prophecy.
Frank Herbert interview. Political prophecy. Prophetic interview with Frank Herbert, the creator of the Dune saga. “Leaders mistakes are amplified by those who follow them without question.” His books were metaphors for oil dependency, pollution, corruption, and govt. control. Technorati Tags: radical nlp, radical change group, frank herbert, dune, political prophecy
#30 Language Series 02: Meta-Model – Generalizations
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The meta-model in neuro-linguistic programming (or meta-model of therapy) is a heuristic set of questions designed to specify information, challenge and expand the limits to a person’s model of the world. It responds to the distortions, generalizations, and deletions in the speaker’s language. The meta-model forms the basis of Neuro-linguistic programming [...] (Wikipedia) What [...]
Neuromarketing is here
Well when brain science meets marketing the level of persuasion changes A LOT. knowing about it is essential in order to use it and defend against it. frontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS neuromarketing: is it coming to a lab near you? by Mary Carmichael For an ad campaign that started a revolution in marketing, [...]