Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Beyond Human PhotoReading & NLP can be detrimental to your life

Ok, I'm telling everyone this out of experience. As we all know anything can be detrimental if not used in moderation. I've done lots and lots of self-development. I've done many many courses, brainwave training and hypnosis. I was so into self-help that I always wanted to learn something and it became like an addiction. This learning caused me to appear slow when interacting with people. Someone would tell me the simplest thing and it would take me like 10 seconds to answer anything someone asks me because I over analyzed the meaning behind what they said before I talk. Over analyzing really hurt me. I discovered that I was being slowed down when my manager that just hired me said that I appear slow. He said he hired me because he thought I was a lot like him and when I was hired on he discovered that i was slower in communication because I was way too over analytical. When my boss told me this it got me thinking....

Hmm maybe it's the self-help. Being very frustrated I decided to type in "NLP is crap" on google and I found articles with people with the same problems. My advice to everyone is that NLP has some good ideas but living by NLP can make you doomed to fail. Always refering to NLP makes you slow. So don't take your time to refer to your NLP stuff. Your conscious mind can only handly 7 + or - bits of info. The good stuff you get from NLP is integrated into your personality anyway after, so don't think consciously about NLP or any self-help course.

For years and years and years you've survived without NLP. If you're a self-help junkie, then you already have all the tools you need. You've listened to NLP so the most beneficial tools are intuitive so it doesn't require you to even think consciously about it. With NLP it's important to only work with the things that work. Remember when you didn't do any NLP I'm sure there were a few things you liked about yourself and were confident about. You've already done more than what the average person does in terms of self-development. It's now time to get out of the self-help trap (which a good number of people who do self-dev are in).

Now that you have all these tools, just be yourself and integrate the stuff that gives you a smooth landing. So I have a questions for you.... How much easier and better would your life be if you didn't have to read or listen to NLP and just live life? That would take a lot off your chest now wouldn't it? It's fun to learn stuff without trying (just go do stuff and you'll learn automatically). You'll automatically know what to model while doing activities and whatever you learn is unconscious. Let's suppose that NLP is off your chest. What kind of fun would you have on your free time? You'll be surprised how many more discoveries you'll make just by being abstinent from NLP. Having fun that involves your body and get out of the always learning mode because if you're always taking in input, then what room is there to output? Have fun and output and do what you feel like.

You've probably heard that if you teach something, then you learn faster than sitting down and listening. That's because learning involves your body, mind and it increases your confidence because people look up to you because of your abundance of information. Can you imagine a teacher that is always on learning mode and not in output mode? The answer is no because they were already on input mode when they were learning in school, right? Now that doesn't necessarily mean that they are never on input mode. There's a time and place for learning. So you've done NLP, right? Use the tools and quit inputing too much. Being one who inputs all the time makes you in effect mode and not cause.

You'll never know everything I've tried, so trust me. I've been from library to library photoreading thousands of books without any kind of satisfaction. I'm more satisfied having fun doing things than photoreading. Don't try knowing anything from a book, the brain only picks up on the STUFF that you need from the book as long as it is in alignment with your purpose.

Want to know more change your purpose so you know other STUFF. Keeping this in mind it's easier to come up with a purpose. Ok so I'm going to use a programming book as an example. Say you want to learn how to use classes. So photoread the book. Then go to the section of the reference that talks about classes and photoread that section again. Then skitter all over the place. Then ask yourself mind-probing questions. What can I do by aquiring knowledge to apply classes? How do I apply the knowledge? Then skitter for your answers. Then as soon as you bump into something you think can help highlight and write it down. In certain concepts there are things people have an easier time doing than other things, so it's important to start with the easy thing to build your confidence of the book, because confidence help build understanding.

Finally, to keep this skill apply it to your programs. You can't become a good programmer by just photoreading. In fact, the best programmers don't learn by reading most of the time. It's trial and error. I remember a time when I haven't done much reading but I was so confident in a topic that I was better than a person who read line by line in a book. Why is that? It's because I was using my genius and creative mind to come up with solutions. Reading is important but it's important to balance your reading with ur own thinking. Ask yourself how much of the info is coming from a book and how much is coming from your creative mind? By using photoreading it gives you an edge, maybe not as big of an edge you were expecting but an edge that makes things easier than before. So don't be dissapointed.