Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head | Derren Brown | TED" video.

@petitio_principii when running across NLP I have seen 2 drastically different meanings. One is about hypnotism and I imagine that is what this Wikipedia article is talking about. The other is about how language and imagery are imprinted on the mind, and this is what is used in marketing. I think Daren Brown made a video in which he got people to make an advertisement for him, except that he predicted the drawing they would make, and he manipulated it all through that latter form of NLP.
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@firstlast-sm6hx There are 2 types of NLP. One is absolute bullshit, and yeah debunked. The other is more a study of how memory and association work and is used primarily in market advertising (commercials not sales people). But it has been fading into obscurity a decade and a half ago, no idea where it is now. It doesn't matter much anymore. Big data is much better at manipulating people than NLP advertising techniques were. Its not so much like it was magic. More just association games. Using certain tones to make catchy jingles, associating food with family, etc. Nothing to be debunked really.
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@jonfromtheuk467 no, I am busy reading other books of my choice. Also as I stated before, there are two different subjects of study called NLP. One is garbage and the other is the study of advertising.
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