1. What the hack does?

2. How we do it?

3. How can it be used?

What the hack does?

The hack distills a long speech with ratings based on structure such that the learner can focus attention on weak and strong patterns of his or her communication. And then continue to use the hack for specific information on the language patterns used and could have been used.

How we do it?
We use transformational Grammer patterns to identify between Meta Model and the Milton Models of communication. By deciding a frame or window size we determine the predominant model of communication for those group of sentences.

Then we go on to determine other patterns of communication and validate their effectiveness for the specific type of model. This allows us for scoring and ranking the sentences using modal operators, checking for imbedded commands and questions, presuppositions.

We have got the rules for most of the transformation from the books

“Structure of Magic ” – Volume I

“Patterns of Hypnosis by Milton Erickson” – Volume I

How can it be used?

The hack can be used for various educational purposes. It can be a study guide for communicators.

A quick feedback after a speech or any session.

Monitor Collaborative Learning and Momentum in Collective Groups.

Transformational Grammar is quite complex and they are still structures that don’t even have a mathematical syntax. However this is our best effort at mapping human intuition to mathematical representations as studied by  Chompsky, Dr. Richard Bandler, Dr. John Grinder and most importantly Gregory Baeston.

If you want to develop more on this or check the app out, it is available at

git@github.com:nbprithv/Five-minute-mentor.git

Someone I know who is also hacking today was with his girl friend yesterday. He wasn’t obviously very excited about the hack and way less motivated untill the Lady looked straight into his eyes and in a low and pleasant tone at the same rate of his breath spoke words of magic. The guy in a while responds, I am surprised that I am so motivated now and just want to go and do my best hack, it must have been what you just said. To which the Lady responded  that’s because you are much into me!

When I heard this – I went “That’s the simplest explanation of Rapport I have ever heard“. Two individuals in love get Rapport more easily demonstrated than NLP experts trained for years in non verbal mirroring, matching predicates and other techniques.

To the NLP Practitioners – Rapport is all about getting the person “Much Into You” at any given  time so that you can lead them to change their current states . And Pacing is all the process you do to get the other person “Into You” by becoming a Bio-Feedback Loop. So you Pace to build Rapport and when you build Rapport you Lead by becoming a Bio-ForwardFeed Loop

More on the hack, this person is in our team. And we are building a hack based on NLP principles from “Structure of Magic“. To the Practitioner you may have already guessed, its on structure of communication. I will be posting a blog entry on it with more details and  with twitter updates tagged #openhackindia the next 24 hours!

Pray for Us and May the God Give Us Another Great Hack Award

posture, and breathing, even when she’s not loaded. I’m sure all of you
who have spent time noticing the difference between alcoholics and
non-alcoholics also find it easy to make that distinction. She was short,
and although she looked ancient, my guess is she was actually about 65.
I nodded to her and smiled and went about my business. I knew the
woman behind the cash register, and we made a couple of joking
remarks to each other and laughed. This little old lady also laughed
and made some comment which was actually pretty funny, and I
laughed too.
The old lady turned to me as I was leaving and said “You don’t
happen to be going up the hill by the Post Office, do you?” I said “I’d be
delighted to give you a lift home. I’ll wait outside in my car.”

She came out, got in the car, and we started driving. As she sat on the
seat next to me, she was wringing her hands and looking over at me
furtively. It was obvious to me that somehow I’d tapped something
inside of her. Finally she said “Why do you drink?”
I did my best to keep from laughing, because she was obviously
wondering why she drank but making a referential index shift. I said
“Well, personally,  I drink for taste. I drink very fine wines, and I drink
champagnes. I don’t particularly like the taste of whiskey, so I don’t
drink whiskey, and I drink beer when I’m at the beach and it’s hot.”
And then I said “But that’s not really the question you want to ask me.
The question you want to ask me is ‘Why do you drink?’ ” That was
such a good match for her experience that she burst into tears.
Crying wasn’t useful for me, and it wasn’t useful for her, either. I
looked outside and saw a dog walking along. I pointed at it and
exclaimed “LOOK! IS THAT YOUR DOG?” just as a way to get her to
stop crying. Because of the urgency in my voice, she responded con-
gruently to my question. She looked out, then looked back at me
confused, and said “I don’t even have a dog.” But she had stopped
crying entirely, which was the point of the maneuver.
Then I told her a story. “Well, you know, that dog reminds me of this
little dog that I knew—a very small dog—that lived in San Francisco.
This dog believed that nobody in the world understood it. That’s what
the dog told me, and the dog was almost right. Because it was true that
almost nobody in the world really understood her. And the dog didn’t
realize that there is a big difference between no one understanding it
and almost no one understanding her.” She burst into tears again.
We continued driving, and soon she said “You’re right, the question
is ‘Why do I drink?’ ”

“And even that is the wrong question” I said. “Your whole life you’ve
been asked that question, and you’ve been asking yourself the question
‘Why do 1 drink?’ Everybody’s been saying ‘Why do you drink?’ but
you’ve been made a fool of. Not only did you ask me the wrong
question, but you’ve been asking yourself the wrong question for the
last 30 years. Everybody around you has been asking you the wrong
question, and they’ve made a fool out of you by focusing your attention
on that question, because it’s not the right question.”
I pulled into her driveway. She looked over at me, and first she said
“Who are you really?” I just smiled. Then she said “Well, are you going
to tell me what the right question is?”

“Well, I’ll tell you under one condition. The condition is this: after I
finish telling you, I’ll reach over and touch you on the shoulder. When
you feel my touch on your shoulder, you’ll get up, walk out, go into
your house, and begin to find answers to the question I give you. As
soon as you know what the answer is, you’ll call me.” And I gave her
my friend’s phone number.
She said “OK. I agree.” So I said “Well, the question is not ‘Why do
you drink?’ the question is (slowly) ‘What would you do if you didn’t
drink? ”
Immediately her whole demeanor changed. Different expressions
began tumbling past one another on her face. She went through
breathing, skin-color, and posture changes. That was precisely what
I’d wanted. She’d never considered what else she’d do if she didn’t
drink. She went into a fairly deep trance, and I let her sit there for two
or three minutes, and then I reached over and touched her on the
shoulder. She roused a little bit, got out of the car, and went into her
house.
Five minutes after I got to my friend’s house the telephone rang, and
sure enough it was this woman. She said “Is that really you? . . .  I just
wanted to tell you that you saved a life this afternoon, 1 was going
home to commit suicide. But I decided I just didn’t know how to
answer that question, and I want to tell you that. I don’t know what it
meant to you, but that is the single most beautiful question in the
world.”
I said “I don’t care whether you like the question or whether you
believe it’s the most beautiful question in the world. That’s not my
interest. My interest is in the answer to that question. And you call me
tomorrow with several answers to that question.”
At one point in the conversation she used a perfect idiom. She said

“Well, I just felt like I was going down the drain.” And I said to her
“People don’t go down the drain. Other things do!” And sure enough,
when she called me the next day, she’d dumped all the booze in the
house down the drain. I was there for two weeks, and I know she didn’t
drink again during that period of time,

I consider that a really interesting example of conversational re-
framing. There wasn’t a wasted move in the conversation on either my
part or her part. And what made it work, of course, was my ability to
notice the sensory-grounded responses I was eliciting, and her ability
to do that as well. She was quite sensitive to minimal cues and so forth.
I suppose a person who is about to commit suicide would be, since this
is their last time around.

In this example I skipped most of the steps I asked you to go through
in refraining. However, the essence of what I did was the same kind of
symptom subsititution—”What would you do if you didn’t drink?”
One of the big advantages of hypnosis is that people’s responses are
amplified and slowed down. There’s nothing you can do with a person
in trance that you can’t do with a person out of trance, as far as I
know. I’m able to induce every deep trance phenomenon in the waking
state. However, hypnosis slows the person down enough so that you
can keep track of what’s happening, and stabilize states long enough to
be able to do something systematically. To do it in the waking state
requires sensitivity, speed, and flexibility. With hypnosis, you stabilize
a person in a particular altered state, so that she will stay there long
enough for you to be able to do something.

Richard Bandler and John Grindler in Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis

However below is a script that you can add to the script directory. This will connect to your schema directly. There is a catalystx plugin CatalystX::REPL that uses moose which is far more helpful. However I will update on that once I have tried it.  For now that script to get an interactive shell to play with your models.

use Devel::REPL;
my $repl = Devel::REPL->new;
$repl->load_plugin(‘LexEnv’);
$repl->lexical_environment->do(<<’CODEZ’);
use FindBin;
use lib “$FindBin::Bin/../lib”;
use Cl::Model::Cl;

my $modelconfig = Cl::Model::Cl->config;
my $schema_class = $modelconfig->{schema_class};
my $dsn = $modelconfig->{connect_info}->{dsn};
my $user = $modelconfig->{connect_info}->{user};
my $password = $modelconfig->{connect_info}->{password};

eval “use $schema_class”;
my $s = $schema_class->connect($dsn,$user,$password);

CODEZ

$repl->run;

However today I discovered an easy way to learn chords and specifically barres accidentally.

The technique is not to focus on playing the chords and barres at all

We are talking about two challenges:

1. Shifting Chords
2. Sounding Barres

For a long time I believed that to get smooth transition between chords I need to play a chord make a perfect transition to the second chord and then strum and so on. That is so wrong!

The best way to learn to instantly and quickly shift chords is to practice constant strumming.
You are allowed to miss the chord or even hold it wrong, but not allowed to missing a strum or a beat. Once you shift you practice to hold on to the beat and rhythm, very soon the chords just comes to you naturally. Even when some chords sound muted, or you just cannot transition that quickly, just keep strumming. Your brain will learn even when you don’t realize that it quickly needs to transition and will make that happen. It worked for me.

Last week I wanted to fix my long due challenge with Barre chords. But I had a compelling reason to work on my strumming instead! So I ignored the muted strings and just focussed on the strumming.  I continued to work on the rhythm like everything was fine. And today I am surprised to notice myself barre effortlessly!

I had actually discovered and forgotten this technique when I had initially overcome my challenges with quick chord transitions. I owe a lot of thanks to Ashish. His methods of teaching was to get me to continue strumming and maintain the rhythm even when my chords where not sounding perfect and even when my  left hand couldn’t keep up with the right.

When you are chatting with someone. You never say, hold that thought, let me go perfect it and we can discuss this again. And that is what makes conversation interesting allows for a natural flow. Like I have taken less than 2 minutes to type this! This is not structured message. But I have got the thought out! I can perfect it another day if it really matters

This is quite contrary to what I initially thought. Set aside 10 – 20 minutes to write once in x days. The key is to make it happen instantly that you are not setting aside time, but posting it as and when it comes to you.

If there is someone searching on the discipline of blogging, I hope this helps you.

Believe it or not, the left thumb position as I realized yesterday is very critical to being comfortable and fast at transitions! So how not to hold a Guitar? Don’t hold it a position that requires wrist movement for transition between neighboring chords. For example if you have to switch between G and D and you have to turn your wrist, then you hold is definitely not correct! Afterall, it is this shift that was hurting and very slow especially between open chords and Barre that led me to reconsider my position.

So how do you hold the guitar in a way that allwos you to just move your fingers and still transition between chords. There are few guidelines that I have learned that should be useful

• Your left thumb must be just a little below the top of the Guitar. Above the curve
• It is desirable that the thumb is straight and aligned with ring finger
• You need to twist your wrist forward such that the fingers are perpendicular to the fret
• There must be space between the palm of the hand and the neck of the guitar. That is it is better as much possible that the palm of the palm doesn’t touch the guitar
• If you let go off the guitar, the left hand should look like you are holding an empty bottle
• The thumb should relax and let the rest of the fingers work
• Even for a open chord shift to a barre chord, the wrist movement has to be minimal

It may take a little practice, to unlearn and learn if you have been like me holding it differently.

Last Sunday I had a wonderful time at church. It is so pleasing to experience true leaders share their message.  It started with the passage
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of craftsmanship“. Exodus 31

Note, the Lord is speaking not of a goldsmith, nor a silversmith, nor of someone who works with wood. But of someone who can work in all of them! To make artistic designs! Now this man was a slave who was making straw and bricks with the rest of the crowd in egypt and yet here  he is with a calling to build one beatiful masterpiece – the tabernacle!

When the Lord anoints  you with his Wisdom it makes people wonder where you have learnt what you know and demonstarte! Afterall the Pharisee did ask about Peter -“Where have these man this knowledge, seeing that they were uneducated”.  Similar questions were asked about Jesus. In modern days, you don’t have to be a business graduate or an engineer for God to bless you with skill in any such field. Such Learning is beyond any form of teaching. You are not just the best among the crowd but exceptional beyond comparision! Like Joseph, Like Daniel, Slaves and Captives who became the most powerful men of their times. Daniel learnt all knowledge and skills of the egyptians just like the other scholars, yet he was beyond comparision and the King’s counselor. Something made him special and that’s the anointing of the Spirit!

I know I can have the best mentor and coaches for the fields I like to learn! But its the anointing that is going to make the difference. I feel so shameful that I have tried to justify my learnings with books I have read, teachings I have heard, methods and principles  when all the while it was the Spirit guiding me. For clearly David says  – “I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word” Psalm 119:99

You reap a hundredfold when there is famine and thats your minimum standard! You are called to split the red sea, still time, break through barriers. A person who has experienced such blessing cannot be satisfied with mediocrity success. As the pastor spoke, I began to realize that I have been moving away from the trust in God to my own attained knowledge and learning in recent years. And though by human standards I am doing well, from the standards the Lord has clearly shown me before, I know its mediocrity that I am living with. And that I can do so much more with His strength. For it is our right to move with force and break all barriers, afterall it is written again – “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us” – Romans 8:37

Clearly such Calling is from the Lord and it is for everyone who desires.

“And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” Acts 2:14

A successful man means nothing to me as much as I credit my own success to just chance and grace. I know and I am honest when I say I have not done anything that makes me deserve what I have seemingly earned.

My delight is rather in knowing and discerning a skillful man! For it is written, “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men“. I know of a certain man whom every HR failed but every CEO longed to own.

It marvels me over and over again, that we are re-learning in leadership lessons to recognize capability and not merely accomplishments when scriptures  prophetically have quoted them centuries ago!