NNQueen said:
Brother Samurai, very thorough and scientific explanation. I've heard of NLP and have also heard that it's great for detecting when people are lying.
Precisely. It's good for identifying and referencing a host of human behavioral traits, from the people that you interact with on different levels.
I think you may be on to something when you suggest that NLP can help us to improve our listening skills. The challenge would be though (or is) that most people may not think they have a problem listening so they will never seek new information like NLP. These people fall into two categories: 1) Those that think they know and don't; and 2) Those that don't know they don't know.
This is why self-evaluation is so critical to personal growth and development.
So many people live out their entire lives acting, thinking, saying and doing things totally wrong and backwards, or at least counter-productive a healthy, happy, productive lifestyle, and never realize that they are doing anything wrong. Most of them them that they are doing everything "right", but never understand, or can draw the correlation as to why things in their lives (health, job, relationships, etc) are failing, despite all of their "best efforts".
The problem is all the more exasperated, when generations of people continue to teach these same faulty ways of thinking, and modes of operation to an unknowing new generation, making the failure all the worse.
Such is the condundrum that our people find themselves in.
Worshipping Jesus is not enough. Not eating Carbs is not enough. Driving a nice car, and buying a nice home is not enough. Voting at the elections is not enough. Saying that I'm "proud to be Black", or "our people need to rise up" is not enough.
All you are doing with that stuff, is akin to spraying a bottle of perfume on a person that hasn't taken a bath in 400+ years. You're only making the problem worse.
It was a systematic agenda that landed our people in the predicament that we are in, and it is ONLY going to be a systematic agenda that will get us out.
The tools are there, whenever we are ready to use them. Some of us have already put the tools in use, and we are ready to help others as they ask of us.
PEACE