Staying true to the transformational power and foundation of NLP, there are lots of different ways we can use questions (on ourselves and others) to solve a myriad of problems. The Unsticker is a useful and fun tool to change the representation of a problem.
How does The Unsticker work?
The Unsticker is a tool for personal or group problem solving. You can use it by yourself, with your friends and family or in a group problem solving session at work.
There are 200 questions (303 in the book) which are displayed randomly. Unless your problem is that you can't work your computer, your problem is outside of your current environment, therefore you are carrying around a representation or model of it. Solving the problem does not mean changing the situation, it means changing your model of the situation. What then happens is that, in the reality of the situation, you behave differently because you feel and think differently.
Most people report that after 4 or 5 questions, either their perspective of the problem has changed dramatically, or the problem seems to be 'solved' altogether.
When a coach asks a client a question about a problem, the coach is trying to figure out the problem and ask a relevant question, which means that the problem sets the ground rules. The question, and all possible answers, will always be constrained by the problem because they at least presuppose that the problem exists as the client has described it.
It is impractical for a coach to ask random questions, because their train of thought will inevitably be influenced by the problem.
The Unsticker generates questions that are random in sequence but very specific in purpose.
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