Richard Bandler
When he was a student in mathematics at the university of California, he was passionate about computer science. He transcribed some audio tapes for therapists like Fritz Perls (the founder of Gestalt therapy) and Virginia Satir. While doing that, he realized that by imitiating those people he could get the same results which made him run a Gestalt therapy group on the university campus.
John Grinder
As a professor of linguistics, John Grinder was impressed by Richard Bandler's skills so he told him once : "If you teach me how to do what you do, I'll tell you what you do.". Then he also inquired the same skills as Bandler just by imitating what he was doing, and by eliminating all what was not important in this method according to him, he was able to determine what was really essential in it.
These two men wrote the first book about NLP : The Structure of Magic. Then comes the work of Alfred Korzybski and Noam Chomsky who underlined a major discovery which is very famous in the NLP community : "The map is not the territory". It actually means that we percieve our environment through our five senses which makes us draw an internal map of the world in our brain. This map is different from the reality but who cares? The objective of NLP is to make you draw an efficient map which will make you realize your objectives in life, not a map which will lead to the truth. But who knows if anybody can ever know what the truth is.
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