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...
The Strategic Value of Confusion: Why Mild Uncertainty is Your Brain’s Greatest Gift (originally written ~2010 on altfeld[dot]com; rewritten and published here in 2026.) In the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), most people are obsessed with "positive"...
The "Silent Killer" of Great Presentations: Are You Speaking with Your Eyes Shut? Every speaker has noticed this in others. Maybe, if we’re being honest, we’ve all done it. A speaker is on a roll. They’re halfway through a signature story or a complex data set. ...
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....
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 Hidden Power of Tonality: How to Develop an Irresistible Voice For nearly three decades, I’ve been known in the Neuro Linguistic Programming community, and well beyond it, as an expert on vocal development. My first voice audio program, Finding Your Irresistible...
Stop Making it Weird: How to Explain NLP to Friends and Family (Originally published on altfeld.com 20+ years ago. Fully rewritten for 2026, here!) We’ve all been there. You come back from a training, or you’re mid-way through a deep-dive into submodalities... and...
The Dance of Rapport: Why Pacing and Leading is the Secret to Real Influence Originally published as an NLP Chat Transcript on altfeld.com (02/23/1998). It's been significantly rewritten and republished here (02/21/2026). Have you ever watched two people who are...
How Best to Learn NLP: The Architecture of Mastery Originally published on April 26, 1998, at my old website altfeld (dot) com, and rewritten 2/14/2026 here. If you ask ten different Master Trainers how to learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), you’ll likely get...
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...
The "Go Corporate" Refrain If I had a nickel for every time someone told me, "Jonathan, you should go after [Big Corporation X]! They pay so much money for training that is lightyears behind what you do," I could retire to a private island. It plays like a broken...
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...