Chapter
7 - The Syntax Of Success
The
meaning of an experience is determined by the order of the signals provided to
the brain.
We'll use the word STRATEGY to describe the combinations of all the factors that create any result: kinds of internal representations, the necessary submodalities, and the required syntax.
We have a strategy for producing just about anything in life: the feeling of love, attraction, motivation, decision, depression, whatever.
If we discover what our strategy for love is, for example, we can trigger that state at will.
A nice metaphor for the components and use of strategies is that of baking. If someone makes the greatest chocolate cake in the world, can you produce the same quality results?
Of course you can, if you have that person's recipe.
A
recipe is nothing but a strategy, a specific plan of what resources to use and
how and when to use them to produce a specific result.
Now the baker may have worked through years of trial and error before finally developing the ultimate recipe.
You can save years by following the baker's recipe, by modeling what the baker did.
In the "baking" of human experience, the ingredients are our five senses and the amounts of the ingredients are the submodalities.
In a recipe, though, you also need to know in what order to add the ingredients - that's the strategy.
The
building blocks of syntax are two different levels of sensory input: internal
and external.
For example, what you see in the outside world is visual-external (Ve).
When
you picture something in your mind-a favorite beach scene, for example, it is a
visual-internal (Vi) experience.
A
train whistle you hear is auditory-external (Ae), a voice you hear in your head
is auditory-internal-digital (Aid)-the sound itself of your voice would be
auditory-internal-tonal (Ait).
You can feel the texture of the armrest of the chair, or the heat of the sun on your body kinesthetic-external Me), or you can have a deep feeling of emotion inside that makes you feel good or bad-kinesthetic-internal (Ki).
If you wanted to model an expert skier, for example, but couldn't actually meet him/her to ask the appropriate questions, you could watch the skier to see what his/her technique is (Ve), and then you might move your body in the same motions (Ke), until they feel like part of you (Ki). Next, you would want to make an internal picture of an expert skier (Vi). Then you would make a new visual internal image, this time a disassociated image of yourself skiing (Vi). Next you would step inside that picture and, in an associated way, experience how it would feel to perform the same action precisely the way the expert skier did (Ki).
One crucial area where understanding strategies and syntax can make a major difference is teaching and learning.
Why can't some kids learn? I'm convinced there are two major reasons.
First,
we often don't know the most effective strategy for teaching someone a specific
task. Second, teachers seldom have an accurate idea of how different kids
learn. Even so-called "learning-disabled" kids are often
"strategy-disabled."
One teacher I worked with found that 90% of her "disabled" kids had auditory or kinesthetic spelling strategies. Let me explain why those are poor strategies for getting the result of spelling well.
If you're not spelling effectively, the problem is the way you're representing words to yourself.
So what's the best strategy for spelling? It's certainly not kinesthetic. It's difficult to feel a word. It's not really auditory, because there are too many words you can't sound out effectively. Spelling entails the ability to store visual external characters in a specific syntax that can be easily accessed at any time.
Another aspect of learning is chunking.
Generally, people can consciously process only five to nine chunks of information at once.
People who learn rapidly can master even the most complex tasks because they chunk information into small steps and then reassemble them into the original whole. If you wanted to spell a word like "Albuquerque," you need to break it down into three smaller chunks like this: Albu/quer/que.
TEACH YOURSELF TO BE A GREAT SPELLER or install any other strategy by modeling the syntax as well as the submodalities of someone's internal representations
DR.DENNIS EKWEDIKE:
ReplyDeleteThe meaning of an experience is determined by the order of the signals provided to the brain.
Strategy is the combinations of all the factors that create any result; kinds of internal representations, the necessary submodalities,and the required syntax.
There is a strategy for producing just about anything in life ;for example the feeling of love,attraction, motivation, depression etc and if we discover what our strategy for love is, for example,we can trigger that state at will.
DR.DENNIS EKWEDIKE:
ReplyDeleteThe meaning of an experience is determined by the order of the signals provided to the brain.
Strategy is the combinations of all the factors that create any result; kinds of internal representations, the necessary submodalities,and the required syntax.
There is a strategy for producing just about anything in life ;for example the feeling of love,attraction, motivation, depression etc and if we discover what our strategy for love is, for example,we can trigger that state at will.
The man who gets the right strategies for living life is always a conqueror and an achiever
DeleteThis chapter teaches us that
ReplyDelete1. The meaning of experience is determined by the order of the signal provided to the brain.
2. The order of doing things in life has to do with the way we communicate with both internal and external representation.
If we discover what our strategy for doing anything in life and perfects it, it becomes easy for us to accomplish that thing.
3.The building blocks of syntax are two different levels of submodalities or sensory inputs, namely, internal and external.
Each of us need to learn the strategy to develop our own syntax to be able to learn easily and successfully.
Dr. Semiyu Olagolden
If we want to learn a new skills, we don't necessarily need to follow all the step by step method listed, we can easily catch up with what someone else have done by following their shortened pattern.
ReplyDeleteAchieving success in life requires a particular strategy unique to the individual, which is usually different from the believed ideal way of doing things
The experience we have in life is only but certain signals registered in the brain that comes up anything we need them.
Chukwuebuka Asadu
Good
Delete1.There is always a strategy for producing anything in life.
ReplyDelete2.We can only our goals when we have a specific plan of what resources to use and how and when to use them to produce a specific result.
3.In the baking of human experience,the ingredients are our five senses,and the amounts of the ingredients are the submodalities
There's always a strategy in performing any task.
ReplyDeleteIf there's a known way of performing a function, there's no need going through the rigors of redeveloping a pattern. Simply apply the strategy using your internal representations
Learning via splitting information into bits is effective in mastering such information.
EWA ANTHONY OBI