Comments for Antano Solar John

Comment on Practice and Play by Swetha

Swetha — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:51:34 +0000

An eye opener to me too… I’ve never practiced violin, I was just playing violin… Thank god ! I’ve seen this atleast now…

Comment on Judge at Indian Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals (IASAP) by Antano Solar John

Antano Solar John — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:27:39 +0000

Thank you! I am not sure if the loyal ones are more efficient or the efficient ones are more loyal or both But what I meant is if loyalty is an available trait – search for it. Cuts down on communication overheads and style differences. And naturally leads to a more efficient combination as a team.

Comment on Judge at Indian Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals (IASAP) by Harini

Harini — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:08:31 +0000

Nice post. Learning no. 2 was a revelation to me.

What specific pattern did you see between efficiency and loyalty?

Did you mean – the loyal ones also happen to be more efficient?

Comment on Teaming with a Startup? by Jace

Jace — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:35:51 +0000

Walking in the presence of giants here. Cool thniikng all around!

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:21:23 +0000

I’ve read the assumptions on which NLP rests its case. And those very assumptions have been challenged by academics and health professionals. NLP fails to provide adequate evidence of its efficacy as espoused by its creators Bandler and Grinder.

The fundamental question I’m asking is about whether NLP is based on sound scientific theory? The “eye movement” model and the “primary representational system” model put forward by Bandler and Grinder both have little to no experimental evidence. And academics everywhere seem to agree that NLP is not a scientific technique even though its proponents may use scientific terms such as “neuroscience”, “metamodeling”, “micromodeling”, “neurological levels” and so on. NLP is not based on neuroscience and neither is it neurosurgery.

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Antano Solar John

Antano Solar John — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:14:45 +0000

I think I didn’t convey the intended message. I just gave you reference of references for scientific ground of NLP. How can you make a judgement even before you verify them? I agree NLP practitioners make a lot of claim that aren’ t true. But that’s like saying everyone lies! The challenge is distilling the truth from the lies and not generalizing

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:05:37 +0000

Then I shall leave you be. For as far as I can tell, there is no scientific evidence to support the claims of NLP. The experiments by Christopher Sharpley in the late 80s and early 90s show this clearly. The United Stated Research Council has also concluded based on a research committee’s report that NLP has insignificant empirical evidence. It is simply not evidence-based practice. There’s a paper by Norcross et al in 2006 which interviewed mental health professionals and academics in psychology and psychotherapy in the US and of the professionals who had any clue about NLP, all of them agreed that it was “possibly and probably discredited”.

NLP in itself as an approach to psychotherapy is bogus. It is but a pseudoscience. So, the claim that NLP has anything to do with neuroscience or neurology is utterly flawed. NLP practitioners mske very specific claims which demand an evidence-base, and NLP just doesn’t have the science to back it up.

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Antano Solar John

Antano Solar John — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:03:41 +0000

It depends on What in NLP you are looking for a research article on. NLP borrows and uses concepts from many fields. So research articles for things that NLP claim can be found in journals of Neurology, Cybernetics etc. Some of the famous theories which have received scientific awards and are popularly found in research articles that NLP is build upon include double bind, TOTE, logical types and logical levels…

Specific reference to scientific publication can be found in the book – “Whispering in the Wind”

The book also has reference to some interesting experiments in control groups.
And as far as I can tell it is the only book that addresses the position of NLP in scientific context. Every other book focusses only on the skill which is where my attention also is

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:48:14 +0000

I should have been more specific. Apologies. By peer-reviewed research, I meant research articles in scientific journals. I’ve noticed that the evidence for NLP’s efficacy is mostly anecdotal and there is little if any scientific evidence amounting to a statistically significant change in experimental to control groups.

Comment on Neuro Surgery at Warp Speed by Antano Solar John

Antano Solar John — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:35:41 +0000

@Aaron

For Starters – Structure of Magic Volume I (1975) – Makes a compelling case of neurological changes using language. It has been peer reviewed by the famous Gregory Bateson!

Ofcourse Structure of Magic is only represents the Meta-Model which by itself is a very small portion of NLP.

There is more information on NLP and Neurological Changes explicitly in the more recent book by Dr. John Grinder Whispering in the Wind.

Ofcourse Dr.Bandler also states it without saying in his books like Trance-Formation. Since he calls every change a new experience in the neurology.