Major Presuppositions of NLP

1. Communication is redundant. You are always communicating, in all three major representational systems: visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
2. The meaning of your communication is the response you elicit. Communication is not about what you intend, or about saying the right words; it's about creating an experience in, and getting a response from, the listener. The bottom line is the response you elicit.
3. People respond to their map of reality, not to reality itself. NLP is the art of changing these maps (not reality).
4. Requisite variety: The element in a system with the most flexibility will be the controlling element.
5. People work perfectly. No one is wrong or broken; it's simply a matter of finding out how they function now, so that you can effectively change that to something more useful or desirable.
6. People always make the best choice available to them at the time, but usually there are lots of other better ones.
7. Positive Intention: Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
8. Every behavior is useful in some context.
9. Choice is better than no choice.
10. Anyone can do anything. If one person can do something, it is possible to model it and teach it to anyone else.
11. People already have all the resources they need. What they need is access to these resources at appropriate times and places.
12. There is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Every experience can be utilized.
13. Chunking: Anything can be accomplished (by anyone) if you break the task down into small enough chunks.