I keep going deeper and deeper into the NLP studies and a recent discovery has scared me a lot! So let me tell you what happened. Firstly I will explain how I got to the stage of doing that particular test. In NLP you learn that every person has a different mental map that they use to interpret events in life. The more clear the mental map is, the more of the real world people can perceive. We perceive reality mainly through our five senses. If you lower the threshold of your senses, you will perceive more of what the world is really about. For example, I have recently lowered my auditory thresholds. I did that by having two people clap their hands in a similar way and I with my eyes closed had to tell who clapped when. They clapped from the same place so I couldn't tell who claps by the location. I had to carefully listen for the differences in the sounds of their clapping. That was quite an exercise and I felt exhausted after probably 7-10 minutes. I would say that my hearing sense is

The majority of people have very low standards in life therefore they don't achieve much. They don't dream big because they think it's unrealistic. So they only expect to have an average life and average life they get. It's easy to see how much the person will achieve in life by looking at his standards. If the person hopes to someday own a second-hand car, that shows that he has low standards. Such poor standards will never allow him to see any opportunities for buying a new car. Settling down for the second best should never be anyone's goal. Everyone can and is entitled to get only the best, yet because most people don't raise their standards, they keep experiencing average stuff in their lives.

Raising standards means refusing to accept something that is not what you want. That should by no means be interpreted as pushing against that which you don't want, because that will keep you stuck forever. It only means that you no longer agree to tolerate something that you're not satisfied with and you focus on and