Apologies if there is a more appropriate board for this...

I'm a big fan of Craig Ferguson, and I've been reading some intro NLP material lately. As a result, I noticed something while watching his show tonight, not unique to him, but I think he does it best of the late night talk show hosts.

It seems like Craig is never stuck; he ALWAYS has somewhere else to go in the conversation with a guest. A la Bandler & Grinder: with one option, you're stuck; two options, you have a dilemma; three or more options, now you have a choice in behaviors. It is always wise to have multiple options for any given scenario.

Some specific points that impressed me: Craig would COMPLETELY drop any subject if the conversation took a promising new direction... it was automatic, as if he had no decision to make. Craig it seems would index any topic that was even slightly broached, then come back to one of them when he hit a wall. We all do this, I'm sure; but he does it with such speed, it's impressive. (Talk show hosts get a cheat sheet of topics, but I think that we can derive our own cheat sheets before and during conversation. It's just a matter of indexing.)


The other thing that struck me after reading about NLP is the focus on process rather than content. I believe that this works especially well when you operate at such a fast speed like Craig does. When you speed things up, the brain on the receiving end has no choice but to sense the message process because there is no time to decode the content. So the content can be utter rubbish as long as the process sends the right signal.

I've rarely ever been able to make instant decisions like that when interacting with people. I've always been a "think before you speak" type of guy. Maybe a lot of us are/were like that. Does anyone have any positive experience with this type of technique? Naturally or after studying PU or NLP?

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