Which book had the biggest impacted in your life?

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Originally Posted by Agent Smith

There is an old saying about this that goes something like, "The burden of communication is on the person communicating".

That will work too.

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye

Milton, or other serious students of NLP:

In the forward to Hall's The Spirit of NLP, he mentions the NLP Communication Guideline as being "the meaning of your communication is the response you get".

Can someone comment on or clarify Hall's statement?

What is your take on this Gary?

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Originally Posted by SalesCoach

What is your take on this Gary?

I agree with both comments, but I don't think that they are in the context of what Hall is talking about regarding meaning. Hall uses the term "meaning creator", and he explains how meaning is framed in the mind and how those frames manifest in the external world. He has more than once referred to the often used biblical text, "As a man thinketh in his heart..." But I don't think Hall is going the New Age route of "thoughts are things". Instead, he's keeping with his correlation of external behavour and internal significance.

Is it a matter of taking responsibility for our communications? Yes--I think so--but more in the context of taking responsibility of understanding our communications and in obsrving how their meanings travel both inductively and deductively.

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye

Is it a matter of taking responsibility for our communications? Yes--I think so--but more in the context of taking responsibility of understanding our communications and in obsrving how their meanings travel both inductively and deductively.

That is over my head. What does all of this mean?

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Originally Posted by Thomas

That is over my head. What does all of this mean?

Not at all, Thomas. It's over my head...and I've read Hall's stuff. I'm not qualified to clarify. Simply trying to understand the writings of Michael Hall. I making some slow progress.

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye

Not at all, Thomas. It's over my head...and I've read Hall's stuff. I'm not qualified to clarify. Simply trying to understand the writings of Michael Hall. I making some slow progress.

At least I'm in good company.

Life Changing Books I've read:

1. the dictionary [age ten]
2. Hardy Boys series [young teens]
3. Roget's Thesaurus [twenties]
4. Poetry of Emily Dickenson [twenties/thirties]
5. "You Are The World" by J. Krishnamurti [forties on]
6. "High Probability Selling" by Jacques Werth [fifties]

Following those few selected fifty+ books of poetry; studies in ancient Asian thought/physical & mental development systems.

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Originally Posted by Gary Boye

Is it a matter of taking responsibility for our communications? Yes--I think so--but more in the context of taking responsibility of understanding our communications and in obsrving how their meanings travel both inductively and deductively.

Can you expand on this Gary?

Many Masters, Many Lives by Dr. Brian Weiss.

Not kidding.
It is the beginning of a spiritual awakening.

I'm hoping the book that has the biggest impact on my life, turns out to be the one I wrote, though.

It's just published, not available to the general public yet. I'll post a link to Amazon when it's available now, or if you are intersted in knowing more - send me a message and I'll forward my publisher's link.

Which book had the biggest impacted in your life?

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