On: Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches

The NLP concepts seem so broad and vague that whatever a socially skilled person is saying might be cast in terms of them. For example, can you imagine a single good public speaker that's not doing any "pacing and leading" or "emotion transfer"?

NLP is just a way of making basic social skills sound more scientific.

also: social skills are just a euphemism for convincing other people that their interests are congruent with yours. manipulation.