Podcast Episode Details
Back to Podcast Episodes
NLP: Generalisation, Deletion, & Distortion
Episode 117
One on One Video Call W/George
https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meeting
Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US
Transcript:
https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/62205477
Speaker 0 (0s):
Speaker 1 (9s): So ascribing, meaning to events. That's the first one there Generalisation Deletion Distortion here we go. The next key idea is when we learn, we generalize. When we learn, we generalize this color person robbed that person over there. Therefore, all of these colors, people, Rob people, the guy speeding past me. It was in a red car.
Therefore red cars, all speed, the guy and this kind of uniform takes away the bad guys. Therefore the people in these kind of uniforms always take away bad guys. Do you see it? So they call those. That's like a heuristic. It's like a mental shortcut that people do. So they don't have to do long, hard thinking about it. Not because they're lazy, not cause they don't want to do long, long, critical thinking.
It's just a mental shortcut that most people use in order to get on with their day. Right? It's like having the, the doors auto lock instead of having to reach over and lock them yourself. The doors. When I shut my door, they auto lock there for, I don't need to lock the doors. So you got to be in charge of your own thinking and re evaluate and retune the way you think things through generalizations can be good.
They allow us to save time. They allow us to have a big picture and they allow us to have a foundation on which to judge. However, it is those generalizations that at times back us into a corner or it is those generalizations that allow us to be manipulated. Think of the BLM movement. How are people generalizing that? How do you generalize that?
Another key idea is still on Generalisation is Generalisation is how beliefs get formed. Billy's filter all the different stimuli coming in the mind doesn't really get raw information it no longer to get to choose. So if you think about that, think about any event that happens and there's multiple variables and each variable is based on a Generalisation. Doesn't have to be complicated if you take time to think it through and really understand it, then you can do some fine tuning.
However, if you're not going to do that, you can understand how multiple variables variables based on Generalisation can lead you to a, a thought process that is going to persuade you to do something you don't want to do. The next key point Deletion Deletion is when the mind ignores specific sensory input, right? Maybe your, your flying down the freeway.
And you're going to see something up ahead and fill out on a truck so that you have to swerve in this
Speaker 2 (3m 29s): Big WC. What you did in
Speaker 1 (3m 32s): Your mind is deleting the fact that the car next to the U, that you just passed is yellow. It's deleting the input that you're under an underpass. You know, it was deleting the information that you don't need at the moment. Again is another heuristic. And again, it's, it's an effective strategy. That's that's, these are techniques that are hardwired into the majority of us, but can you think of a time when Deletion might not be that well, if there is a subtle detail that you might need to recall, if you think about the process of Deletion, then when you find yourself and critical moments, you will instinctually understand the concept of Deletion and you won't be as susceptible to Deletion.
Does that make sense? Let me just do this for you, because I love ya. The next time you are in a situation, you listening to this right now, we'll be able to recall that situation very clearly without deletion
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago