The positive worth of the individual is held constant, while the value and appropriateness of internal and/or external behavior is questioned.

This is one of the many NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.

What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
In short: The person is OK, the behavior might not be. We’re not questioning who you are, but what you do. Basically it says that NLP is free of judgment, we won’t judge you and neither should you. We do work together to see if we can get better results with internal or external behavior. It’s about what you do, not who you are.
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There is a positive intention motivating every behavior, and a context in which every behavior has value

This is one of the many NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.

What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
This is the presupposition that causes the most controversy. If there is a positive intention motivating every behavior, what do you make of all the crime? How’s that positive?

The key to this presupposition is that the positive intention is for the person executing the behavior. The intention is positive in that sense that reality looks better with that certain behavior than without, or it looks better after a certain action than before.

Often you’ll find an addition to this presupposition: “…and once was someone’s best choice.” So given the choices someone had, they executed the choice that seemed the best at the time, and the positive intention to have a better reality (for that person!) was the motivation.
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All distinctions human beings are able to make concerning our environment and our behavior can be usefully represented through the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory senses

This is one of the many NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.

What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
This presupposition is rather long and uses a lot of difficult words. To translate it into easier language: “Humans observe (changes in) behavior and environment by using the five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting).” It’s not exactly the same, but similar and easier to understand (and remember).

The key elements of this presupposition are our five senses, and they are used a lot in NLP. The first three (visual, auditory and kinesthetic - seeing, hearing and feeling) are the ones that are used the most.

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Don’t you just hate it when you have to set goals to get things done? They are an evil way of making sure you have to put in those extra -often unpaid- hours, to accomplish more than you’re hired for. And if you fail, that’s a reason to withhold your bonus, or even your yearly raise.

This is a list with 47 simple words you can use to sabotage goals. Use these words when formulating goals and they are bound for failure, so if you don’t want to get caught not accomplishing goals, make sure you use these words. The more the better!

1. To try
   Try and you will fail. Well, you’re not saying that you’re failing, but you are implying that failure is a very realistic option.
2. To attempt
   Attempting is a more sophisticated way of saying you are going to try. Sounds a lot better, still doesn’t guarantee success.
3. To aim for
   When you aim to achieve a goal, you never said you were going to do anything to accomplish now is it? If you aim an arrow, it wasn’t going to shoot itself at the goal, right?
4. To hope for
   Express that you hope to achieve the goal sounds good. It shows your intention, but you can always blame someone else when the goal is not accomplished. Click to continue »

This is one of the many NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) presuppositions and one of the original 8 of Richard Bandler.

NLP presupposition in full
Feedback vs. Failure - All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are desired outcomes for a given task/context, or not.

What does NLP mean with the presupposition?
Basically it says that you have created everything as far as results and behavior is concerned. It says that no matter what result you get, you can use it as feedback on what to do next or what to do differently. This is important! If you are not getting the response you get, regard that as feedback not as failure. There’s no such thing as failure.

This is one of the central themes of popular movies as What the Bleep Do We Know!? and The Secret. But it is also in different forms part of most self improvement books. A lot of these gurus will tell you that you are in control, and this presupposition is an underlying principle.

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