Something’s better than nothing - short changing due to fear, ignorance, rationalising needs …

National Research Council evaluation
In 1988 at the request of the US Army, the National Research Council evaluated several highly marketed "New age" human performance enhancement technologies.[12] Druckman, one of the evaluators, said that "we found little if any evidence to support NLP’s assumptions or that it is effective as a strategy for social influence."
(Note that Tony-Robbins is NLP practitioner)
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Comprehensive NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming

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