NLP Generalization

The third process in the NLP Meta Model is NLP generalization, also directed to Limits of the Speaker’s Model. Where we draw global conclusions based on one, two or more experiences what we call the process of NLP generalization. At its best, NLP generalization are one of the ways that we learn. We take the information we have and draw broad conclusions about the world based on one or more experiences. At its worst, generalization is how we take a single event and make it into a lifetime of experience.

The last part of the Meta Model: Generalization

Normally the conscious mind can only handle seven plus or minus two, items of information at any given time. Of course, many people can not even handle this number. Try this: Can you name more than seven products in a given product category: for example, cigarettes? Most people will be able to name two, maybe three products in a category of low interest, and usually no more than nine in a category of high interest. There is a reason for this. If we did not actively delete information all the time, we would end up with excessive amounts of information coming in. In fact, you may have even heard that psychologist say that if we were simultaneously aware of all of the sensory information that was coming in, we would go crazy. NLP generalization

Generally Speaking - Limits of the Speaker's Model.

Generally speaking, NLP Generalization has four wheels. You have been carried in or driven one. Despite the various different models that exist, when you come across one you know what it is. So in that sense NLP generalizations assist us. The flavors we can recognize in the NLP generalizations are:

Universal Quantifiers
Modal Operators of Necessity/Possibility
Presuppositions.

Last but not Least

Remember, to increase your efficiency as a NLP Practitioner, know your positive intention for the message you want to convey, build rapport and pay attention on what and how you use language. Leave people and business in a better place that where you found them, every day! Limits of the Speaker’s Model.

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