"Festina Lente"
The Key to Remarkable Skills.
Tom O'Connor
Special Forces operators have a slogan when it comes to mastering any skill:
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."
It’s a variation of a motto adopted by Rome’s first emperor, Cesar Augustus, who built a great empire around a saying:
“Festina Lente”
Or “More haste, less speed.”
Sounds like a double bind, doesn’t it? But it’s not.
Here’s how this applies to us:
Many students want to get good with NLP as quickly as they can – so they hurry.
It’s feels good to rush in and consume study everything.
But the problem is that in hurrying, we fail to build strong foundations. We get exposed to a lot, but in truth know very little. Absent of deep tacit knowledge of how different elements of the tech work together as ONE coherent whole, we struggle to create the outcomes we want.
Sound familiar?
Fear not.
Most NLPers are never exposed to how the technology of NLP really works … for example how language, submodalities and strategies work together. As a result, they struggle to apply the techniques they learned (in the training room environment) into real-world contexts.
And when they do try – typically their NLP “smells and sounds” like NLP.
Thankfully there’s a way to fix that as master trainer Michael Breen demonstrates in this video:
Festina Lente – slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Acquiring NLP so you can use effortlessly in real-world business contexts isn’t something you get by doing a traditional NLP training. Or reading one or even a 100 NLP books.
Believe me, I tried for years doing that and invested a small fortune. Since then I’ve heard this pattern of failure from many thousands of NLPers - from novices to master trainers – ALL experienced the same mis-takes.
That’s when it hit me.
Being truly excellent with NLP requires you to unlearn what you think you know. Because it’s our current thinking, about how we think NLP works, that keeps students stuck – having to accept at best, mediocre results…
…when so much more is possible.
Thankfully, when you learn NLP in the right order and acquire the deep knowledge (almost everyone misses), you soon discover you can start to use NLP quickly, fluidly, and so naturally – colleagues, friends and clients can’t even detect when you are using it.
This isn’t some magical fairy thinking.
It’s a reality for all of those who have taken the journey to learn-unlearn-and-relearn NLP.
And in truth, this kind of commitment to excellence never stops. It’s incredibly fun.
For decades, Michael Breen has led the way in teaching other how to apply NLP in business. He has taught thousands of students how to use NLP expertly through his Business NLP Practitioner and Master Business NLP Practitioner courses.
If you were lucky enough to be able to afford and could get a spot on one, you know how amazing and eye-opening these trainings are. However not everyone can afford to pay over $5,000 to learn the secrets of applying NLP in professional contexts.
That’s why tomorrow I’ve got a very cool announcement for you.
Keep an eye on your inbox for a message from me then.
To your success,
Tom
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