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In the old days every craftsman learned his craft as an apprentice. He became a Master by watching a Master and modeling his ways. And when he became a Master he took on apprentices of his own and taught them everything he knew.
It is a great shame that the modern way has forgotten the value of learning by watching and doing. We believe that we can teach people in classrooms. But that is not a natural way for people to learn. Children learn by watching and copying their parents. That is the natural way.
It is also the way that Richard Bandler and John Grinder learned from the master communicators whose excellent behaviour they modeled in the early days when they were developing NLP techniques.
To achieve a high standard in any area of our lives we have to observe the best in action and then we have to practice. It is true that practice makes perfect. But this is only true if we practice excellent behaviour, not if we practice poor behaviour.
