Sorry you had a bad experience with Tony's stuff. I've only read his books and used his PPII. I have found them both to be good tools for pushing yourself out of "the box".
As far as NLP, Mastery University may be a waste of money and time. I have no idea. If it didn't work for you than it didn't work for you. I believe it is suffice to say, Mastery University in no way is representative of all of NLP, its trainers, or the many thousands that find it worthwhile for making their lives better and better understanding how to acquire or refine their own skills.
Understanding the patterns of NLP is not NLP. NLP is an attitude of curiosity that leaves a "trail of techniques" and patterns. NLP is, at its core, a (not the only) way of modelling the skills of others. Eliciting the skills from someone else is about becoming excellent at anything you do in life.
Anyway, I was a little offended by your post. But, I probably shouldn't be. I don't defend the choices I make - I'm just happy that I learn from my mistakes.
Good luck in your ability to cut out parasites in your life. I wish you well in your journey.
Good luck, and...
CommonSense
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Originally posted by LordOfEarth:
Not to blast anything posted here but I didn't even understand the first thing about NLP (even after going to Mastery University, which was a complete waste) until I got the Illusion Conclusion Course by Jerry Stocking- www.jerrystocking.com and coincidentally I'm selling mine on ebay because I'm done with it. Using nlp to "GET" something is pretty much useless but using it to learn about yourself and how you think so you can start to strip those useless thoughts away, it's pretty good for that. What Tony Robbins does is "self-get" not "self help." If you really wanted to help yourself you would throw out all the useless junk in your life and enjoy the space created, not clutter your mind with more garbage that takes up more room and creates more pressure than was there in the first place. The best thing about NLP is the "Patterns" thingy. All the other stuff is for GETTING stuff but you all know already that to get PR to work you have to strip away the 90% of the book that you don't want. Do that with life too. Kick the morons out of your life, and you have a pretty good life without having to do anything, don't you?
"Thinking Clearly" by Jerry Stocking is a pretty cool book as is his Illusions course. I've getting into his advanced stuff now in the time I have when I'm not throwing another parasite out of my life. As you can tell, I've almost thrown the internet out too but I figure a day a week won't kill me.
