STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

I had problems with cash machines yesterday. Five of them, in two cities, refused to give me money either because they were broken or empty. Wondering on the chances of that happening, I hit on a theory: this was clearly an early indication that the SkyNet defence system was becoming conscious. Well, I didn’t . . . → Read More: STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

BODYTALK

One of the ten commandments of NLP is that thou shalt not mind-read. God forbid you should see someone teetering at the side of the road and assume they’re going to cross it, when in fact they may have stopped to open a restaurant. Problem being that we humans have an inbuilt tendency to . . . → Read More: BODYTALK

THINKING ALLOWED

Often at the end of a year, I find myself pondering stuff. This time round, for some reason language is on my mind. And in it.

The particular prompt for this stream of thought was rereading Eric Robbie’s essay, in the Nov 2000 issue of NLP World, on the ordering principle of the Meta . . . → Read More: THINKING ALLOWED