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another thing i experienced in the NLP community is the reactive emotional defensiveness, and inability to deal with critical thought applied to its techniques.
Even Bandler was like this.
If you ask him about when it doesn't work, or where the independent studies are, he would just get reactive and upset, say something like "you should focus on where it does work, and not where it doesn't".
What a lot of folks in NLP don't seem to understand, is that they should be the first to criticize their own work, and do the objective tests to sort the wheat from the chaff. This has not been done.
Instead of embacing critical thought being applied to NLP, the NLPers often just get defensive and reactive.
In my view, this goes back right to errors in NLP's foundations.
I think it also might be due to the lack of scientific training of many of the NLP folks. Instead of becoming a bit more objective about their "theories and techniques", and trying to figure out what works, and what does not work, and why, they often will just dismiss potentially valid criticism of the theory and techniques.
The more i think about this, the more i THINK this is due to the lack of scientific training of most of the folks involved in NLP.
There was no one guiding NLP, and trying to do proper studies to see what works, and what doesn't work.
Also, you have one of the founders (Bandler) trying to sue everyone in the world a while ago, and fighting over the very foundational ideas of NLP itself.
another thing i experienced in the NLP community is the reactive emotional defensiveness, and inability to deal with critical thought applied to its techniques.
Even Bandler was like this.
If you ask him about when it doesn't work, or where the independent studies are, he would just get reactive and upset, say something like "you should focus on where it does work, and not where it doesn't".
What a lot of folks in NLP don't seem to understand, is that they should be the first to criticize their own work, and do the objective tests to sort the wheat from the chaff. This has not been done.
Instead of embacing critical thought being applied to NLP, the NLPers often just get defensive and reactive.
In my view, this goes back right to errors in NLP's foundations.
I think it also might be due to the lack of scientific training of many of the NLP folks. Instead of becoming a bit more objective about their "theories and techniques", and trying to figure out what works, and what does not work, and why, they often will just dismiss potentially valid criticism of the theory and techniques.
The more i think about this, the more i THINK this is due to the lack of scientific training of most of the folks involved in NLP.
There was no one guiding NLP, and trying to do proper studies to see what works, and what doesn't work.
Also, you have one of the founders (Bandler) trying to sue everyone in the world a while ago, and fighting over the very foundational ideas of NLP itself.