Scientific Definition
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
Plain-English Definition
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
Feynman Explanation
Tell it what to do clearly enough, often enough, and it will. For better or worse.
Core Principle
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
Mechanisms
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The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
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Habit installation, performance routines, persistent behavior change.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Tell it what to do clearly enough, often enough, and it will. For better or worse.
Examples
- Codified in NLP practitioner training; underpins anchoring and reframe work.
- Habit installation, performance routines, persistent behavior change.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Audit what your environment and self-talk are quietly directing.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Audit what your environment and self-talk are quietly directing.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Thinking about one's own thinking.
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a micro-intervention to insert a gap between stimulus and response.
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Wallace J. Nichols: proximity to water reliably shifts the nervous system toward a calmer, more creative state.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).