Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99337 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Synopsis
Rich with humor and metaphors from other cultures and disciplines, Turtles develops the characteristics common to the geniuses whose patterning formed the initial body of NLP techniques. You will learn how these skills are readily available for cultivating your own personal genius in a way that is respectful of the power of the unconscious.This book is the documentary, with added notes and stories, of Grinder/Delozier's five day seminar called "Prerequisites To Personal Genius". John Grinder and Judith Delozier get their participants to think about the structure of thinking; how our thought patterns become our beliefs about reality. The limitations of those thought patterns can be overcome, however, when a person is able to expand his/her perceptual filters and model "geniuses" -- this is the process which has been shown in the lives of people such as Einstein, Milton Erickson, and Gregory Bateson.Throughout the book, the authors challenge you to reexamine the structures of your "mind" and the ways that all parts can be integrated in an internal dance.

Customer Reviews

The reference for learning about NLP's "new code"
The term "new code" refers to 1987, when this book came out. At that time, the ideas in this book departed quite strongly from the orginal "mechanistic" NLP framework. Today, some of the messages from this book still aren't "integrated" in mainstream NLP (which is a "buy" reason). Focus of this book lies on perceptual positions; trusting your unconcious (+ focussing your attention), and working with patterns (+ how to interrupt them). These are 3 messages that Grinder still stresses today (in 2001) and that influenced my own thinking when I wrote "7 steps to Emotional Intelligence". Grinder still trains the material of this book on a regular basis in France... reading this book is the "next best thing" if you can't make it to Paris. That said, to mine this book's content, you'd better have studied some NLP first: given that it is a transscript of a typical Grinder/Delozier workshop, structure isn't one of its strongest points...

Really thought provoking...
This is a really good book. I've read literally hundreds of books on NLP and personal development but this is in my top 3. It's quite an involved read, so you need to dedicate a bit of focus to it, although it does keep your interest throughout, with the witty style of writing, in transcript form (sounds weird, but it works well). It's genuinely thought provoking, and easily worth the money. If you're in any doubt and have a solid interest in personal development, take a chance on this book.

Unreadable!!
This may be a great book. That's if you can get past the first 50 pages! I am a member of an NLP group and this book has become a bit of a joke amongst the group since 4 of us have now tried to read it and none of us has made it past page 50! And that's people with a good NLP knowledge and the desire to learn. So if you do give it a go, be warned, you'll have to work very hard to get anything out of it!!