This week's interview is with a real innovator in NLP, my old friend and occasional mentor Jonathan Altfeld, international NLP trainer and developer of Knowledge Engineering and many other useful tools and patterns. In the interview, Jonathan shares with us an important distinction that will make you a better coach, therapist or even mechanic: the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning, and when to use each. He also recommends some of the people he thinks are doing really worthwhile and original work in NLP, how working in different cultures makes you a better NLP trainer, and why you need to select your first NLP course and trainer carefully (with a couple of pointers on how to do that). Here's the link to Jonathan's article explaining the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning: How to Rock Two Different Styles of Reasoning, and Why If you are inspired to train with Jonathan, here are his upcoming courses. And for two weeks from the release date of this episode (so until 11pm Eastern USA time, 10 November 2016) podcast listeners can get 20% off Jonathan's superb Creating The Automatic Yes audio programme, in either CD set or downloadable MP3 format, when you use the coupon code 'practicalnlp'. Duration: 48m 17s Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the feed:  https://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/ Finally, it would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks