What can learning NLP Modelling do for you? And why is it the most important aspect of NLP?
Reminder: Read the article in the voice of the person who inspires you. If you haven’t read part 1 of NLP Modelling series yet, you can read that here first.
To explain this part of NLP Modelling, let me give you an example: Cooking.
When you are watching episodes of Masterchef, some of you might get charged up and excited at the prospect of cooking. Although the excitement might not last very long, you still are excited for a couple of days at the most.
I’m not one of those people. I don’t enjoy cooking.
On occasion, if I’m asked to cook and am given a recipe, I could follow the exact steps and make the dish.
Now, imagine that the same recipe is given to someone who is a good cook and who understands all the nuances of cooking. Who do you think will make the dish better?
It will be the person who is a good cook, right? Not only will they understand the intricacies of cooking in a way I don’t, but they will do better since they know the fundamentals of cooking. They will be able to understand the recipe, will pay attention to colour, texture, smell and all those little details. Just the things I won’t know because I don’t know the fundamentals of cooking.
That, right there, is the difference between NLP Modelling and NLP tools and techniques. Modelling teaches you the fundamentals of human experience. Through modelling you can learn how to recognize core patterns, how human experience works, how people think and behave, how they form their identity and purpose and so much more.
Modelling is learning the structure of human experience.
Once you understand and learn modelling, the way you apply these tools and techniques will be much more efficient. Just the way cooking is done better knowing the fundamentals of it. When you learn modelling you would be able to pay attention to the details that you would otherwise miss if you are blindly following the steps of the recipe.
And not only that, by modelling you will also be able to build your own models that will be more relevant and contextual to your outcomes than to rely on tools and techniques to work all the time.