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Hello friends. Today we will talk about one basic presupposition of NLP: "The map is not a territory."
"A map is not a territory, a model of the world is not the world itself, but a map is structurally similar to a territory, and this is its usefulness."
By "map", the author of these lines, Alfred Korzybski, understood all possible descriptions of the world, reality, and being. By "territory" - the world itself - incomprehensible and unknowable.
There are no cards that are correct (well, except mine), just as there are no cards that are absolutely wrong. The truth is that all cards are equal! Any map that describes the world and helps (manipulate) interact with it - somewhere it works and in some way it is correct.
"Everyone sees, hears, feels and thinks in their own way."
If you accept the idea that everyone has "their own cockroaches" in their heads - and they are the best and most correct, then life becomes easier. If you accept the position of your interlocutor, while not renouncing your own, then your communication becomes much more productive.
Over time, the truths you have championed with such passion can also change.
And this is an indicator that you are developing. After all, there are not so many people who remain conserved in their beliefs all their lives.
For each of us, our own experience is the most correct.
Here's an example for you: the ancient Slavs were convinced that if a person feels fever and chills, it means that he was attacked by thirteen Likhomanki sisters living in a swamp.
Modern medicine says that when a person feels fever and chills, his body is attacked by germs or viruses.
Both cultures have ways out of this situation. Both paths are aimed at healing.
So, most of the problems arise when a person tries to fit the world (territory) to his map, instead of “redrawing” his map so that it would be more successful for a given territory. You don't take a map of Tyumen when you go to Paris, because you understand that in Paris you won't get anywhere with this map, why in life situations are people more often rigid?
Here's a simple exercise:
1. Remember 2-3 cases from your life when some truths that you considered unshakable have changed over time and quite dramatically.
2. When trying to convince someone of your point of view, try to imagine for a second that it is possible that after a while you will think completely differently.
3. When arguing, remember that the other person has their own experience. Therefore, he has convincing, from his point of view, reasons to think this way and not otherwise.
If the presupposition of NLP “The map is not your own territory” will become one of the rules of your life - you will save a lot of energy and time. And there is always a reason to use these resources!
Yes, one of the tasks of NLP is to help a person learn to "navigate the terrain", change his map, be more flexible. Many techniques of change in NLP are associated with finding a broader view of the situation - if we have a problem, then the solution is somewhere outside our map of the world, and in order to find a solution, we need to go beyond our map , ie "expand the map" so that this very solution gets into it.
"A map is not a territory, a model of the world is not the world itself, but a map is structurally similar to a territory, and this is its usefulness."
By "map", the author of these lines, Alfred Korzybski, understood all possible descriptions of the world, reality, and being. By "territory" - the world itself - incomprehensible and unknowable.
There are no cards that are correct (well, except mine), just as there are no cards that are absolutely wrong. The truth is that all cards are equal! Any map that describes the world and helps (manipulate) interact with it - somewhere it works and in some way it is correct.
"Everyone sees, hears, feels and thinks in their own way."
If you accept the idea that everyone has "their own cockroaches" in their heads - and they are the best and most correct, then life becomes easier. If you accept the position of your interlocutor, while not renouncing your own, then your communication becomes much more productive.
Over time, the truths you have championed with such passion can also change.
And this is an indicator that you are developing. After all, there are not so many people who remain conserved in their beliefs all their lives.
For each of us, our own experience is the most correct.
Here's an example for you: the ancient Slavs were convinced that if a person feels fever and chills, it means that he was attacked by thirteen Likhomanki sisters living in a swamp.
Modern medicine says that when a person feels fever and chills, his body is attacked by germs or viruses.
Both cultures have ways out of this situation. Both paths are aimed at healing.
So, most of the problems arise when a person tries to fit the world (territory) to his map, instead of “redrawing” his map so that it would be more successful for a given territory. You don't take a map of Tyumen when you go to Paris, because you understand that in Paris you won't get anywhere with this map, why in life situations are people more often rigid?
Here's a simple exercise:
1. Remember 2-3 cases from your life when some truths that you considered unshakable have changed over time and quite dramatically.
2. When trying to convince someone of your point of view, try to imagine for a second that it is possible that after a while you will think completely differently.
3. When arguing, remember that the other person has their own experience. Therefore, he has convincing, from his point of view, reasons to think this way and not otherwise.
If the presupposition of NLP “The map is not your own territory” will become one of the rules of your life - you will save a lot of energy and time. And there is always a reason to use these resources!
Yes, one of the tasks of NLP is to help a person learn to "navigate the terrain", change his map, be more flexible. Many techniques of change in NLP are associated with finding a broader view of the situation - if we have a problem, then the solution is somewhere outside our map of the world, and in order to find a solution, we need to go beyond our map , ie "expand the map" so that this very solution gets into it.
