October 23, 2014

October 23, 2014

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Behaviorist

Dear Reader,

 

Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) exists and can be easily arranged, but we are not doing that because we don’t know that we can. This author was often rejected by people who refused to talk with him. Only when he gets a chance to talk with people does SVB become possible. However, most people habitually engage in Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB). They want and expect of what they are used to. Moreover, because they can stop SVB without any difficulty with their NVB, they feel that they have power. There is nothing a person who knows about SVB can do to change the person with NVB. The only people who are going to be open to SVB are those who already have a behaviorial history, which prepared them to understand it and to allow it to happen. Those who don’t have such a history can in principle also acquire this preparation, but it is not realistic to expect that they will, because there are no contingencies in place anywhere, where this could reliably occur. 

This writer fully admits that for the most part, it has been a complete waste of time to try to change those who are not open to SVB. Those who were not immediately open to it, never became open to it later. Nobody, as far as this author knows, has come around saying “Maximus, this SVB you were talking about really works...I wasn’t believing it at first, but when tried it, I was amazed by how it impacted me and others.” This author doesn’t think it is impossible, but, based on his knowledge, he considers it highly unlikely. Most people are not open to SVB and will probably never know about it although it is totally possible and very beneficial. 

SVB is all about staying with the facts. The facts are that we are not capable of creating the environments in which we reliably achieve SVB together. Only those who have struggled and have utterly failed are willing to admit that they can’t do it. Those who supposedly succeeded are bound to go on with their NVB unchecked. They can pretend to have SVB, but they cannot be stopped in what they are doing by what someone else is saying. However, those who are troubled, who have tried in vain to overcome their own problems, they have the most to gain. Their motivation derives from their need to somehow decrease their many negative experiences.