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A comment on Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches.

Re:Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches by miloshh on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @07:11PM (#355196)
The NLP concepts seem so broad and vague that whatever a socially skilled person is saying might be cast in terms of them. For example, can you imagine a single good public speaker that's not doing any "pacing and leading" or "emotion transfer"?
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Re:Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches by nazgulnarsil on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @07:49PM (#355223)
NLP is just a way of making basic social skills sound more scientific.
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Re:Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches by nazgulnarsil on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @08:36PM (#355264)
also: social skills are just a euphemism for convincing other people that their interests are congruent with yours. manipulation.
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