Frogs into princes

John Grinder, Richard Bandler · 1979

Programming Psychology & Behavior

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DamagedPropertyApr 2011
I have found a lot of books on the subject but most rightly titled books seemed to have only tips and tricks. Some are really good but don't really hit the sweet spot for me.
This book is good but and example of what I am talking about. http://www.amazon.com/Accelerated-Learning-21st-Century-Mast...
But the ones I have had the most success with are the Neuro Linguistic Programming books by John Grinder and Richard Bandler.
http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Magic-Vol-Language-Therapy/d... http://www.amazon.com/Frogs-into-Princes-Linguistic-Programm... http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Hypnotic-Techniques-Milton-Er... http://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Sub-Modalities/dp/09169... http://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Prerequisites/dp/...
Also this is great for learning how to digest technical and college books.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Smart-Students-Know-Learning/dp/0...
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carapaceSep 2017
Early on I got into a box of my dad's old NLP books (not Natural Language Processing, the other NLP.)
"Structure of Magic" vols I and II, "Frogs into Princes", "Trance-formations", and a couple of others.
NLP grew out of the application of Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to recordings of very effective psychological therapists. (Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton Erickson.) By the way, this is the same Transformational Grammar that leads to the Chomsky Hierarchy of languages. Neat, eh?
Anyhow, the NLP people rapidly developed a powerful model of subjective reality and replicable results in theraputic settings (e.g. the "Five-minute Phobia Cure" algorithm, among many others.) The capability to reprogram belief structures engenders a change of self-definition even if you don't use it.
"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
"System design from provably correct constructs : the beginnings of true software engineering" about Dr. M. Hamilton's Higher Order Software.
Everything by Robert Anton Wilson. (That's not a title, I mean everything he wrote.)
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