"The Wild Days. NLP 1972 to 1981" - читать интересную книгу автора (McClendon Terrence C.)

Foreword

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.

After all this time, it's still exciting for me to look back at those early days. The perspective of 25 years shows us that while what we were up to back then may have seemed wild and crazy, what's really outrageous, at any time, is to reach the boundaries of human knowledge or capability and not be afraid to move beyond them.

Terry McClendon has admirably captured the spirit of this singular adven­ture that NLP offers people. More and more people all over the world are realizing that neither deep space nor the ocean are the "final frontier"; the real frontier is to gain control over cognitive evolution, so that individuals, groups, nations, and all humanity are truly prepared for the stern challenges that lay ahead.

Terry's book brings back a lot of pleasant memories of funny things that happened during those early NLP days. Of course, Terry's recollections of the now-long-ago past may not match in every detail those of other people who were there. In some cases, they don't match mine exactly. But that's not the point. What he has captured, beyond dispute, is the spirit of adven­ture that gave birth to NLP and that continues to energize it. As long as that spirit survives, NLP will continue to push out the boundaries of human potential into uncharted, but very stimulating, waters.

Thank you, Terry.

Richard Bandler