Richard Wayne Bandler (born 1950) is an American writer, consultant, and public speaker in the field of self-help. With John Grinder, he founded the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) approach to psychotherapy in the 1970s, which is considered [[pseudoscience] by some, and genius by others. Many very successful athletes and entrepreneurs swear by NLP . Early life and education. Richard Wayne Bandler was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended high school in Sunnyvale, California.: 24 He has stated that he was beaten as a child so badly that every bone in his body was broken.
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