Season 5 Episode 6: Everyday NLP Bites...What Are You Saying ? Generalizing

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt In this last podcast of Season 5 I look at comparisons. Comparisons, especially unclear ones, take us down a blind alley. Whether it is willing ou...

20 Feb 20218min

“ʺThey are all the same!ʺ Is the cruelest gallows humankind ever built.” ― Lamine Pearlheart, Author How often to we talk about groups of people with the implication that they are all the same and thi...

13 Feb 20218min

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” Lily Tomlin, Actor Being specific can be exhausting in conversation ….and yet without it there possibilities of m...

6 Feb 20217min

“Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.” Theodor Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist In this podcast my focus is ...

30 Jan 20218min

“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.” Richard Bach Spiritual Writer In this podcast I look our self-imposed rules, when we say we must or mustn’t do something, or that we can ...

23 Jan 202110min

“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.” — Gregory Bateson, anthropologist and social scientist This week’s language pattern is where what is said...

12 Jan 20219min

“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” Andy Rooney Writer and Humorist This week’s language pattern is when we reach a conclusion that do...

19 Dec 202010min