Number 1 Myth About NLP Training
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What is the number one myth about NLP trainings?
There’s this idea of knowing something. What does it mean to know something? What do you actually know?
I’ve been practicing yoga for 10 years. I find it really odd when people ask me if I “know” yoga. When I practiced martial arts people would ask me if I “know” karate.
This always sounded so strange to me because I never thought of these things as knowing them. They always felt like a practice; something I did rather than something I know.
NLP is no different.
The biggest myth about NLP trainings is that you’re going to “know” NLP when you’ve completed the training. It’s good for marketing. We like to be told we’re going to know something if we show up and complete the training, but the truth is once you’ve completed a practitioner training, the real NLP training has just begun.
NLP is no different than anything else you learn. Whether it’s martial arts, a language, or yoga, etc., you’re going to suck at it at first. You’re not going to be good or effective at it until you’ve put in enough practice.
If you were to attend a three or even a four week intensive to learn a language, you wouldn’t really know the language by the end of the intensive. You would know more than you did before the intensive and you would hopefully have enough ability with the language to launch you in the direction of competency.
But if you didn’t make using the language a regular practice, you would lose it.
NLP is no different… well actually NLP is easier to learn than a language, but it still takes regular practice.
Just like a language though, if you practice NLP regularly for years you will reach a threshold where you will know it and you will achieve a level of permanent competency, which means you can stop consciously practicing it for years and still be able to pick it up when you need it.
If you practice NLP long enough NLP becomes part of you and you will use it consciously and unconsciously. You will use it naturally, easily, and effectively especially when you really need it.
Damon Cart
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Damon Cart is considered to be a natural talent by some of the best NLP trainers in the world. His approach to guiding and teaching students brings to their awareness that they've been doing NLP all of their lives without realizing it and he empowers them with skills and resources to thrive and reach their full potential. With the understanding of how Neuro Linguistic Programs create one’s experience a person can then take charge of those programs and create the experience and the life they want. By taking this approach into his own rigorous, daily NLP practice Damon has been able to rapidly accelerate his progress in learning, coaching clients and teaching workshops.