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Summary: Realistic Self Improvement
Review: This text explores various facets of NLP and how it can be used to change your life. The author is the director of an NLP training center in New York City, but the writing style and presentation of the material is done in an easy to understand and conversational style. The book is also packed with examples to demonstrate the concepts, which helps tremendously in understanding how they are supposed to work. At the end of each section are practical exercises that help you apply the techniques covered in that chapter.I really liked the way that the book is laid out in short chapters that could be read in just a few minutes. It made it easy to pick it up when I had a few minutes, read a chapter, read the exercises and apply that technique. I also enjoyed the chapter about changing behavior and working with problems that you have tried unsuccessfully to rid yourself of before. Some of the first sections seemed to spend a lot of time on basic communication techniques, which is a very important part of NLP, but it seemed repetitive to the point of being almost boring. If you find the first sections fascinating then that is great, if you find them common sense and a bit more boring then hang in there as it does get better and provide a lot of useful information before the book is completed. A good book with a lot of basic useful techniques that you can apply yourself, it is a wonderful reference that should be read several times a year to remind you that there are other techniques that you may not have tried which might help you unlock the promise of who you can be.
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