Model of the World

A person's unique internal representation of reality, constructed from their values, beliefs, attitudes, memories, and sensory experiences. The Model of the World is not reality itself but a map — a filtered, distorted, and generalized version of experience that determines how a person perceives, interprets, and responds to the world. One of the foundational NLP presuppositions states that 'the map is not the territory' — meaning no two people share exactly the same model of the world, and all models are incomplete.