Book Review: The User's Manual For The Brain

I'm always on the lookout for good resources for NLP, and these are the best I've seen so far:

The User's Manual for the Brain (Vol 1)

User's Manual for the Brain, Vol. II: Mastering Systemic NLP

With these books on my shelf, I don't really need any other basic NLP books. They are a comprehensive summary and reference for the same NLP concepts, methods and techniques that you cover in your training classes. I like the way they are laid out and the information in them is excellent.

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For those just now learning NLP:
PLEASE NOTE that I said 'summary and reference.' These are text books, not tutorials or substitutes for classes. Just as you wouldn't expect to easily learn calculus from a college calculus textbook (you really need the professor, blackboard and Q&A to learn quickly and productively), these aren't a resource to teach you NLP. NLP is something that you have to learn by doing, and learning by proximity (demonstration) is required to learn all the different levels of things that are going on. You can't learn to swim from a book, and you can't really learn how to do NLP from a book, either. I want to be clear that these books do not replace a two-week master NLP course, even though they contain that level and breadth of material.

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Also, beware that here can be some confusion with the title, as there are several other books out there with very similar titles. Double-check for the author and content before you purchase to make sure they are the right ones.

If you have been trained in NLP and are looking for the set of high-quality reference books that you had been wishing for these last 20 years, these are they. You can tell that I'm delighted with them.