This summarizes the heart and passion of NLP: modeling, searching for processes and the “how,” and disdaining the “why,” and focusing on experiences of excellence rather than the cases of pathology.

how and why

Psychology for a hundred years had operated from a completely different orientation. Based on the medical model and physical “hard” science model, it looked at pathology (at distortions, perversions, pain, distress, etc.), seeking to understand the source (”where did this come from?”, “why is this so?”), and wanting empirical, external proof.

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