NLP Problem in Decision Strategy

Here is some great information on learning strategies. Now you may from time to time have someone who comes to you with a problem in learning. It might be a client or a student or someone that wants to learn something. This can work with kids and we have seen some pretty good results with kids.

These are some things that I think you ought to think about when you’re working with a kid. First of all you want the learning strategy to begin in a positive state. If the student or you think of a time when you succeeded and felt good rather than failed and felt bad, you’re going to have a better learning strategy. Learning is really inhibited by having negative emotions and negative states in the person’s physiology at the time so you want the client, you want the child to access and then you want to anchor appropriate resources.

You want to chunk appropriately. I think you want to chunk down the task that you’re working on to avoid overwhelm. Chunking down means getting specific enough so that we’re not overwhelmed about everything. Like, “Oh I’ve got all this homework to do”. “Well what specifically?” Then chunk down and begin to get with working on each of the segments of the homework. Then recycle or go external till you can represent the smaller chunks so as to sequence and prioritise them.

You want to get appropriate feedback relative to the task being learned, which means the feedback that the student receives needs to be relative to the task that the student is learning. You want to make appropriate comparisons that give one a feeling of accomplishment. Do not make any comparisons to experts or to an ideal person, but to your ability in the past. So always compare your own ideas of ability, your own ability with the past and not to an expert.

There’s a couple of things, you need to avoid the dangers of exiting too soon. When you exit too soon when you’re learning something you get premature closure and I don’t know if you know, but I know a lot of people who’ve attained premature closure on a lot of different things. So exit when you’ve learned enough for now and when you’ve learned something well enough to get your outcome.

I think you also should avoid the trap of chasing clarity where you think, ‘I need to know everything about it and be totally clear about it before I proceed. Remember that all important decisions are made on the basis of insufficient information.

I think you should expect not to understand some things and I think those things that a student doesn’t understand can be set aside and you can come back to them later. I think you should avoid getting trapped in bad feelings about not understanding and remember too that understanding itself is a feeling.

Category : Neuro Linguistics Programming Posted on August 22, 2009