Let's Talk About Modeling
"Practice is the best master." - Latin Proverb
Unless you're new to the Performance Zone you'll recall that I spent a good portion of last year studying and becoming a Master Practitioner of that system made famous by Tony Robbins, Neuro-Linguistic Programming or as it's best known - NLP.
One of the concepts that is at the heart of NLP is modeling. NLP is the study of excellence, and modeling is the process that makes explicit the behavioral patterns of excellence.
What are the behavioral patterns of successful people? How do they achieve their results? What do they do that is different from people who are not successful? What is the difference that makes the difference?
The answers to these questions have generated all the skills, techniques and presuppositions associated with NLP. Modeling can be defined as the process of replicating human excellence.
Explanations of why some people excel more than others usually cite inborn talent. NLP bypasses this explanation by exploring how we can excel as quickly as possible. By using our mind and body in the same way as a peak performer, we can immediately increase the quality of our actions and our results. NLP models what is possible, because real human beings have actually done it.
There are three phases in the full modeling process.
The first phase involves being with your model while he is doing the behavior that you are interested. During this first phase, you imagine yourself in his reality, using second position skills, and do what he does until you can create roughly the same results.
You focus on what he does (behavior and physiology), how he does it (internal thinking strategies) and why he does it (the supporting beliefs and assumptions). The what you can get from direct observation. The how and why you explore by asking questions.
In the second phase you systematically take out elements of the models behavior to see what makes a difference. If you leave something out, and it makes little difference, then it is not necessary. If you leave something out and it does make a difference to the results you get, then it is an essential part of the model. You refine the model and begin to understand it consciously during this phase.
This is the exact opposite of traditional learning patterns. Traditional learning says add pieces a bit at a time, until you have them all. However, this way, you cannot easily know what is essential. Modeling, which is the basis of accelerated learning, it's all the elements, and then subtracts to find what is needed.
The third and final phase is designing a way to teach the skill to others. A good teacher will be able to create an environment so her students learn for themselves how to get the results.
Models are designed to be simple and testable. You do not need to know why they work, just as you do not need to understand why or how cars work to drive one. If you're lost in the maze of human behavior, you need a map to find your way around, not a psychological analysis of why you want to find your way out of the labyrinth in the first place.
Modeling in any field gives results and techniques, and also further tools for modeling. NLP is generative because its results can be applied to make it even more effective. NLP is the "bootstrap program" for personal development. You can model your own creative and resourceful states, and so be able to enter them at will. And with more resources and creativity at your disposal, you can become get more resourceful and creative...
If you model successfully, you will get the same results as your model, and you do not have to model excellence. To find out how a person is creative, or how he manages to become depressed, you ask the same key questions. "If I had to stand in for you for a day, what would I have to do to think and behave like you?"
Each person brings his own unique resources and personality to what he does. You cannot become another Einstein, Beethoven, or Edison. To achieve and think exactly like them you would need their unique physiology and personal history.
NLP does not claim anyone can be an Einstein, however it does say that anyone can think like an Einstein, and apply those ways of thinking, should he choose, in his life; in doing this, he will become closer to the full flower of his own personal genius, and his own unique expression of excellence.
In summary, you can model any human behavior, if you can masterthe beliefs, the physiology and the specific thought processes, that is, the strategies that lie behind it.
Before going on to explore these in more detail, it is worth remembering that we are only touching the surface of a domain as fast as our own future potential.
The Best is yet to come!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
PS - Email me at info@empowermax.com to schedule an exploration into your current core Values. Write down 3 questions and make sure you're ready for the answers!
Unless you're new to the Performance Zone you'll recall that I spent a good portion of last year studying and becoming a Master Practitioner of that system made famous by Tony Robbins, Neuro-Linguistic Programming or as it's best known - NLP.
One of the concepts that is at the heart of NLP is modeling. NLP is the study of excellence, and modeling is the process that makes explicit the behavioral patterns of excellence.
What are the behavioral patterns of successful people? How do they achieve their results? What do they do that is different from people who are not successful? What is the difference that makes the difference?
The answers to these questions have generated all the skills, techniques and presuppositions associated with NLP. Modeling can be defined as the process of replicating human excellence.
Explanations of why some people excel more than others usually cite inborn talent. NLP bypasses this explanation by exploring how we can excel as quickly as possible. By using our mind and body in the same way as a peak performer, we can immediately increase the quality of our actions and our results. NLP models what is possible, because real human beings have actually done it.
There are three phases in the full modeling process.
The first phase involves being with your model while he is doing the behavior that you are interested. During this first phase, you imagine yourself in his reality, using second position skills, and do what he does until you can create roughly the same results.
You focus on what he does (behavior and physiology), how he does it (internal thinking strategies) and why he does it (the supporting beliefs and assumptions). The what you can get from direct observation. The how and why you explore by asking questions.
In the second phase you systematically take out elements of the models behavior to see what makes a difference. If you leave something out, and it makes little difference, then it is not necessary. If you leave something out and it does make a difference to the results you get, then it is an essential part of the model. You refine the model and begin to understand it consciously during this phase.
This is the exact opposite of traditional learning patterns. Traditional learning says add pieces a bit at a time, until you have them all. However, this way, you cannot easily know what is essential. Modeling, which is the basis of accelerated learning, it's all the elements, and then subtracts to find what is needed.
The third and final phase is designing a way to teach the skill to others. A good teacher will be able to create an environment so her students learn for themselves how to get the results.
Models are designed to be simple and testable. You do not need to know why they work, just as you do not need to understand why or how cars work to drive one. If you're lost in the maze of human behavior, you need a map to find your way around, not a psychological analysis of why you want to find your way out of the labyrinth in the first place.
Modeling in any field gives results and techniques, and also further tools for modeling. NLP is generative because its results can be applied to make it even more effective. NLP is the "bootstrap program" for personal development. You can model your own creative and resourceful states, and so be able to enter them at will. And with more resources and creativity at your disposal, you can become get more resourceful and creative...
If you model successfully, you will get the same results as your model, and you do not have to model excellence. To find out how a person is creative, or how he manages to become depressed, you ask the same key questions. "If I had to stand in for you for a day, what would I have to do to think and behave like you?"
Each person brings his own unique resources and personality to what he does. You cannot become another Einstein, Beethoven, or Edison. To achieve and think exactly like them you would need their unique physiology and personal history.
NLP does not claim anyone can be an Einstein, however it does say that anyone can think like an Einstein, and apply those ways of thinking, should he choose, in his life; in doing this, he will become closer to the full flower of his own personal genius, and his own unique expression of excellence.
In summary, you can model any human behavior, if you can masterthe beliefs, the physiology and the specific thought processes, that is, the strategies that lie behind it.
Before going on to explore these in more detail, it is worth remembering that we are only touching the surface of a domain as fast as our own future potential.
The Best is yet to come!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
PS - Email me at info@empowermax.com to schedule an exploration into your current core Values. Write down 3 questions and make sure you're ready for the answers!
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