NLP Mastery: The Meta Programs (Practical & Illustrated Guide) Paperback – April 29, 2010

Thanks to Shlomo Vaknin.A solid template on Metaprograms.Hopefully future NLP writers can go further by showing NLP practitioners and enthusiasts the how to usage in real world application and the amazing results it could generate.

A complete guide. Thanks Mr. Vaknin.

I have the "200 Patterns" book and it is so bad I won't buy another by this author. The good news is that he apparently hired a translator to help out with this one. It shows. It reads much better than his previous work. OTOH, the editing seems just as bad (going by the preview offered). I found grammatical errors on most pages in the short preview. (I'm at a loss to understand why editing is a dead art these days. This book is far from the worst example I've seen. The Hall books are a real dog's breakfast!)As to the material itself, I'm not sure what use I would make of it. It is another "laundry list", much like the "200 Patterns" book. It is most useful to present metaprograms in a framework of how they are implemented with particular strategies and how one might alter the strategies to produce variations of those metaprograms.Yes, I find it useful to be able to quickly decide that a person is a "mismatcher" and works in "large chunks" ... that kind of identification does help with communication and for those who have not read the other works in this field on this subject (Hall, Dilts, Grinder, etc.) it might be useful to have this kind of "laundry list". (It is probably most useful for sales persons who are only interested in the key factors to use in persuasion.) In the area of coaching or therapy, it is probably more useful to get into what strategies are in place to form and support the metaprograms. IOW, it is fine to know that a person is a "mismatcher", but what sequence of steps does he use to decide to "match" or "mismatch" THIS TIME? How might material be presented to get him to "match"? What is the crucial point at which he chooses his path? (If you hop on over to Dilts' site you can view his Encyclopedia article on metaprograms -- he does a nice job of analyzing how a metaprogram works with the TOTE model.)In summary, my criticism of this work is much the same as with the "200 Patterns" book. Building a big "laundry list" is contrary to the spirit of NLP which focuses on the individual and how he operates in the world in his own unique way. The approach in this book would seem to appeal to those who don't really get NLP, or don't want to do the hard work of gaining deep understanding of how people really operate in the world.I'm left to wonder if there are any really NEW books on NLP out there. It seems that the more I come across the more I seem to be rereading the same material in slightly different words.