Sangram Takmoge

“NLP is not a model of psychopathology (study of mental illness). NLP makes no diagnoses about a person’s mental health or illness. Its focus is purely on results. It proposes that people are not broken – they work perfectly to produce the results they are getting even if the results are not desirable. If a person doesn’t like the results they are getting, NLP provides tools to help them get the results they desire.”
― Neil Shah, A Practical Guide to NLP: Turn Negatives into Positives

“NLP has been described as part of the next generation of psychology. However, it has not yet been accepted by mainstream academia, and is not seriously studied as a branch of psychiatry or psychology.”
― Neil Shah, A Practical Guide to NLP: Turn Negatives into Positives

“With complex issues, it can be ridiculously hard to pin a particular cause on a given effect. Did the assault-weapon ban really cut crime—or was it one of ten other factors? Did the economy stall because tax rates were too high—or were the real villains all those Chinese exports and a spike in oil prices?”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“It isn’t only that we know less than we pretend about the outside world; we don’t even know ourselves all that well. Most people are terrible at the seemingly simple task of assessing their own talents. As two psychologists recently put it in an academic journal: “Despite spending more time with themselves than with any other person, people often have surprisingly poor insight into their skills and abilities.” A classic example: when asked to rate their driving skills, roughly 80 percent of respondents rated themselves better than the average driver.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak