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THC 73: Richard Bandler | Neuro-Linguistic Programming & Mental Mastery
Gregory Bateson and the Strategy for Talking Backwards
Bandler recounts an experiment with his mentor, Gregory Bateson, involving a hypnotic subject who was instructed to speak backwards. The subject revealed his strategy: writing the sentence mentally, phonetically reversing the letters, and sounding them out. This anecdote illustrates that complex behaviors are the result of specific mental strategies, similar to how good spellers use visual rather than phonetic strategies.