Mindworks: An Introduction to Nlp: the Secrets of Your Mind Revealed

-You have all of the resources you need -Success is the ability to achieve intended results -You can turn failure into feedback -The map is not the territory -There is a positive intention behind every behavior -There are always more choices

My only real complaint about the book is that so much is devoted to theory, and so little is devoted to practical implementation of NLP. You'll find far fewer "exercises" in this book than you will in other NLP volumes.

All in all, this book is a great place to start learning about NLP, and is an excellent reference on basic NLP concepts. If you want to put NLP to work for you in a practical manner though, you'll need to look elsewhere.


Excellent book   July 20, 2003
 6 out of 7 found this review helpful

This as an excellent intro and overview into the field of NLP. Linden has done a great job with this book, though it is a bit slow to get into, the wealth of information that it contains, is well worth the persaverance. It is a shame that it is out of print.

If you are looking for a good book to introduce you to NLP, I suggest this book (if you can find it), and O'Connor's Intro to NLP. Both are excellent choices, that together give a thorough overview.


Big on ambition, poor on delivery   February 8, 2003
 6 out of 10 found this review helpful

Given such a low cover price you might think this was a pretty cheap book - until you discover how poor quality it is, information and accuracy-wise.

For example, this is supposed to be an introduction to NLP, yet it makes no mention whatever of a key feature of NLP - the meta programs (mental filters). And whilst the authors do at least mention the meta model - another key concept in NLP - it gets far too little coverage (just 28 pages in a book 354 pages long).

On the subject of accuracy, the authors invent presuppositions that are not merely unknown in mainstream NLP but actual contrary to NLP thinking, such as:

Genuine NLP presupposition - "There is no such thing as failure, only feedback" (using the cybernetics definition of "feedback")

Mindworks pseudo-NLP presupposition - "You can turn failure into feedback"

How do you turn something INTO feedback if it already IS feedback?

The authors appear to be equally at a loss when it comes to simple matters of fact. For example, they baldly state that:

' "The map is not the territory" is an NLP presupposition that's taken from Noam Chomsky'

Oh really? So why does everyone else (correctly) attribute the epigram to Alfred Korzybski, creator of General Semantics?

To cut to the chase, this book is too long-winded, too inaccurate, and too poorly written to be worth even the original cover price.
Definitely NOT recommended.