When you were born did you know how to walk? How to ride a bike? How to speak English? Of course you didn't ........ but almost certainly you know how to do all those things now. So how has that happened? Somewhere along the line you have learned the skills involved in performing those tasks.
Can you ride a unicycle, speak Japanese or play the bagpipes? Maybe you can but for most of us it will be a no to all of these questions. For some people it'll be a yes because they have chosen to learn the skills involved. My point is this, if someone can do it, they must have learned to do it. If they can learn to do it, then you can too. Now I'm not saying you can decide to learn to sprint this week and be beating Usain Bolt the next but you could certainly get a whole lot faster if you learned to do what he does by modelling him - by studying how he does it.
In NLP terms, understanding that a skill is made up of a series of steps is one of the first steps to modelling that skill and being able to do it yourself. It's about more than just the physical movements though, it's about the attitude. What is going on in someone's head when they reach peak performance? How can you learn to get yourself into the same state?
The NLP presupposition that encompasses this best is, Possible in the world and possible for me is only a matter of how. I love this because it opens up a whole lifetime of possibilities. It lets me look at my laptop keyboard and see every book that's ever been written; or at a piano keyboard and understand that every piece of music that exists in the world could come from the notes on there.
To me that's mind-blowing. It's also hugely empowering ......... and I don't think I'm alone in that.
Michelle
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