I started my career as a college lecturer and shaped myself into a trainer. My subjects moved from journalism to electronic media to communication to the whole gamut of personality development programmes, passing through TA, Zen Meditation and what not.It went on as a quest searching for an ideal set of tools which could be flexible enough for applications at all possible levels, at all possible times and for all possible people.
I also started reading books on NLP. But the heaven-sent moment arrived only when I read Ms Sue Knight's "NLP at Work". I felt like Moses with God's revelation.
It is not just a book. It is the modern day Bible. The way Madam Knight has painted the concepts makes it look like the New Book of religious principles that could replace all the existing religious books and principles. She stands like the Knights of yore defending the honour of not only women but the whole of mankind for a change.
I say this because the principles of most of the religions have a divisive factor in the way they are professed and practised. But here is a book that has a power packed formula for human understanding and global amity.
I have been inspired to learn that business can be successfully practised without undermining the interests of the so-called competitors. Excellence has a sort of holiness in the way it is depicted. Success has a friendly face that has the capacity to lead even the not so successful side by side towards success.
The book that I started reading mechanically just like any other book, all of a sudden, transformed itself into to a living book and its living words became my companions throughout the conscious, subconscious and unconscious hours of my life.
The NLP beliefs are enriching beliefs that have the capacity to build up one's confidence, good will, relationships, friendship, capabilities, happiness and meaning of life. They allow ample space for the co-existence and growth of every other human being. They do not promote competition but excellence in everything one does.
Ms Sue Knight has infused life into her words and that is the reason for such an impact. The readers can leave themselves vulnerable to be influenced by each chapter and to experience the effect the concepts have on their lives.
It is my sincere belief that all the trainers of the world ought to read this book so that they are inspired by the concepts and are able to incorporate them in their progrmmes. The principles that the book professes should spread far and wide. NLP should be imparted even to children the way they can take - in convenient doses. Every human being should be enabled to imbibe the concepts by the time they attain adulthood. These concepts should be incorporated in the life skills programmes normally made available for school students.
The style of the author makes the book an interesting read. The concepts are made crystal clear. They flow like a rivulet of pure water from an enchanted island. It has metaphors, parables, anecdotes and chunks of lived experiences, and, of course, life-enhancing concepts.
In my opinion, Ms Sue Knight's "NLP at Work", has the capacity to trigger a process that could make the world a better place.
