技師は故障の症状を確かめると、ボイラー室へ入っていきました。しばらくの間、迷路のように曲がりくねったパイプをながめ、蒸気のもれる音に耳を傾けたり、パイプに触れたりしていました。やがて鼻歌を歌いながら、小さなハンマーを取り出すと、小さなバルブをたたきました。それだけで、エンジンは再び快調に動き始めたのです。
この修理の請求書は1000ドルでした。汽船の持ち主はその金額に驚き、修理には15分しかかかっていないではないかと文句を言って、明細を要求しました。送られてきた明細は次の通りでした。
ハンマーで一撃の費用:0.5ドル
一撃する場所を見つけるための費用:999.5ドル
合計:1000.0ドル
NLPの素晴らしい点は、何を、しかもどのように行えばよいかを教えてくれることです。
(「あなたを変える神経言語プログラミング」まえがきより)

There is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship
boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the engineer's description of the problems and asking
a few questions, he went to the boiler room. He looked at the maze of twisting pipes, listened to the thump of and the
hiss of escaping steam for a few minutes, and felt some pipes with his hands.
Then he hummed softly to himself, reached into his overalls, and took out a
small hammer, and tapped a bright red valve, once. Immediately the entire
system began working perfectly, and the boilermaker went home. When the steamship owner received a bill for $1,000 he complained that the
boilermaker had only been in the engine room for fifteen minutes, and requested
an itemized bill. This is what the boilermaker sent him:
For
tapping with hammer: $.50
For
knowing where to tap: $999.50
Total: $1.000.00
What is really new in NLP is knowing exactly what to do, and how to do it. This is an exciting book, and an exciting time.
Richard Bandler
NLP共同創始者ジョン・グリンダー博士認定校
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記事更新日:2022/07/23