Welsh Institute of NLP
There is no failure, only feedback
When things do not work out the way we hope they would, a common response is to consider that we failed. NLP offers an alternative view. What actually happened is neither good nor bad, but merely information. Think back to when you learnt to drive. You almost certainly crunched the gears at some point. That did not mean that you failed as a driver and would never be able to operate the gearbox, it simply meant that changing gear in that particular way did not produce the result you wanted.You then used that information to improve the way that you changed gears
Among the Presuppositions normally presented at NLP trainings are:
The map is not the territoryChoice is always better than no choice
There is no failure only feedback
The meaning of the communication is the response it produces