Stop Drawing a Blank: How NLP Sorting Patterns Fix Your Memory Have you ever felt like you were absorbing a mountain of information effectively, only to draw a total blank when you were actually called upon to recall it? Perhaps you’ve mastered something complicated...
Recursive Change Architecture: Why "Stacking" NLP Techniques Leads to Permanent Change Most people approach personal change like a home repair: they find a single tool, apply it to a single problem, and hope the fix holds. If they have a limiting belief, they run a...
NLP Time Distortion: How Our Internal Clocks Impact Decisions & Influence Quick Takeaways for Coaches & Communicators: Time Distortion is Universal: Human perception of time is highly inaccurate and easily manipulated by internal and external cues....
Architecting Small Business Excellence: Unconventional Uses of NLP for Growth (Originally published as an NLP IRC Chat Transcript on altfeld [dot] com, on August 2, 1998. Today, 2/26/2026, I've completely rewritten my content, for modern times and considerations.)...
The Missing Engine of EQ: Mastering NLP Emotional State Chaining If you were to ask me a specific question about the state of our field today... "Jonathan, what is the single most important Neuro Linguistic Programming skill that is consistently under-taught and...
The Limited Scope of Myers-Briggs (And Why You Are Not Your Test Score) Editor’s Note: The core concepts in this post were originally published on altfeld.com. This article has been significantly rewritten, modernized, and republished here on February 13, 2026. We...
NLP Strategies & Elicitation: The Evolution into Strategy Pipelines Editor’s Note: Some of the ideas in this post were originally published 2/12/1998 in an online Chat Transcript, on altfeld.com. It has been refreshed, rewritten, and republished here on January...
New NLP Practitioners ask me this question, more than almost anything else: "What’s the right way to structure an NLP session?" And I get why. When you’re new, the temptation is to reach for a script because it feels safe. But in real sessions, scripts make you...
Strategies to Help People Understand, Consciously and Automatically (Or: Learn to “Package” Information So It Sticks, from NLP Training Design techniques) (Originally published long ago at altfeld.com; rewritten and updated for this website's blog!) One of my highest...
In 1997 and 1998, I did a lot of early "chat room" seminars on NLP. This one started the way a lot of my favorite NLP conversations start: informal, half-playful, and about ten seconds away from going deep. This blog entry was originally published as an NLP Chat...
NLP Metaprograms and Time Distortion: The Hidden Filters That Run Your Experience Originally published through a chat-transcript on Altfeld.com many years ago; rewritten and updated for 2026. This blog post explores the relationships between meta-programs and our...
Cold-Reading NLP Metaprograms: How to Spot Patterns Before People Speak Originally published in the early 2000's on our old site (altfeld.com) from an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) Chat Transcript. Its been heavily updated for publication here as a blog entry. A...