About this episode

Zoë explores the use of NLP in military training and its effectiveness in turning soldiers into expert marksmen.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army was in a weird place. So weird, it was willing to hire Richard Bandler and Tony Robbins to try to turn ordinary soldiers into expert marksmen in just a few days with NLP. Zoë hits the shooting range with an NLP expert to see if she can become a sharpshooter. Plus, the little-known NLP backstory behind another psychological technique the military still actively uses: EMDR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Zoë, Richard Bandler

Topics covered

• military training
• NLP
• psychological techniques
• expert marksmen
• 1980s history

Keywords

• NLP
• EMDR
• U.S. Army
• Tony Robbins
• Richard Bandler
• military training
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Army

Books & works: NLP, EMDR

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