The Wild Days. NLP 1972 to 1981

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NLP: The Wild Days is the story of John Grinder's and my adventures during the formative days of NLP. It's not only the story of the outrageous things that Grinder and I did 25 years ago; it's also the story of the spirit in which NLP was founded, has grown, and continues to evolve.

That spirit is basically the belief that anything is possible, and that it's the human mind that makes it so. This idea is much more common and widely accepted now than it was back then; in those days, people used to express the impossibility of something by saying, "There'll be a man on the moon before_happens." Of course, in 1969, putting a man on the moon lost its power as a metaphor for impossibility!

Grinder and I never accepted what most people assumed about the limits of human beings anyway. We always felt that humans were capable of much more excellence, creativity, and success—in all kinds of endeavors—than most people believed. The growth of NLP, and its appli­cation to fields as diverse as physics, pilot training, and sales—vindicates the approach we took.

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