[Neurons] 2023 Neurons #58 THE WHAT AND HOW OF THINKING

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2023 Neurons #58

December 18, 2023

NLP A Thinking Model #12

 

 
THINKING: WHAT AND HOW

 

Here's an astounding fact.  Just as you can go through all 12-grades of
school (elementary, middle, and high school) and never learn to actually
think or learn, you can also go to University, even graduate with a degree,
and still not know how to think or how to learn.  Amazing, isn't it?  Well,
amazing in a horrible way.  And how horrible is that?

 

Now, learning what to think, yes that's important, but what if you learn the
wrong stuff?  What if you learn something that is already outdated or that
has been made redundant?  What if you are only learning the prejudices and
biases of your teachers and those who control the pursue strings of the
university?  Then not only is your learning irrelevant, it may also be
actually destructive to you and others.  Every religion, philosophy, and
school teaches you what to learn-actually they have a vested interest in
that.  What they are often afraid to teach you is how to learn and how to
think.

 

This has become clear recently in US Universities that have adopted one
particular presupposition.  While it is an assumption that is
over-simplistic to the point of being ridiculous, yet it is what so many
colleges and universities are teaching.  Namely the idea that- 

"The world is divided into two kinds of people-oppressors and the oppressed.
Oppressors are bad people and deserve whatever they suffer; the oppressed
are good people and have the right to take revenge on oppressors no matter
how horrible or Hitlerian the revenge."

 

Now anyone who has the ability to think can see through that idea as pure
non-sense.  First, a thinker would immediately recognize that this is
Either-Or thinking and how it dichotomizes the world and over-simplifies to
the point of being ridiculous.  Numerous times Maslow wrote, "Dictotomizing
pathologies and pathology dichotomizes."  If only the world was that simple!
If only people were that simple!  But alas, neither the world nor people
are.  Instead anyone or anything that oppresses does so to some degree, a
degree that occurs on a continuum.  There are degrees of oppressing from
very little to a lot.  And those who are oppressed can be oppressed a little
bit or a whole lot.

 

Second, a thinker knows that any relational term like oppressor/ oppressed
indicates that it is a relationship in which both parties plays a role.
That's the way it is with relationships-everyone plays a role to some
degree.  Each is responding and each has a degree of response-ability.
Again, the world is just not that simple.

 

Third, a thinker would also recognize that no matter what anyone has
suffered, what misfortunates has befallen someone, no mistreatment allows,
permits, and authorizes that person to now do the same.  A first bad deed
does not give permission for others to do a second bad deed.  If something
is bad- wicked, evil, inhuman-than it is bad for the oppressed to do as
well.  Being mistreated does not justify reeking revenge.  Revenge is not
justice, it is more injustice.  The dynamic is the same, just the actors
have changed.  When our kids say, "But he hit me first!" we don't say,
"Well, okay, go ahead and hit him back just as hard."  At least if we are
civilized human beings, we don't teach our kids to think and act that way.

 

If you know how to think through something, how to think straight, that is,
logically and rationally, the whole notion that "the world is made up of
oppressors and the oppressed" is irrational.  In NLP language, it is an
over-generalization that arises from having deleted critical information
that results in this distorted premise.  If you know the Meta-Model of
Language, you would be able to ask questions about what's been deleted,
generalized, and distorted and that would let you know that the statement is
an ill-formed belief.

 

Similarly, if colleges and universities were teaching the students how to
think and how to learn, if they were teaching critical thinking skills, how
to reason logically and rationally, most of the so-called "protests" would
not be occurring.  Young people would know better.  And that they do not
seem to know better, this is an example of the failure of schools in
teaching people how to think. 

 

Solution?  NLP trainers training the NLP Meta-Model.  Neuro-Semantic
trainers training Executive Thinking and Brian Camp I, II, and III.  The
solution lies in enabling people to learn how to unleash their critical and
creative thinking skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

(970) 523-7877

meta at acsol.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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