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Acknowledgments.

This book did not come out of theory.

It came out of conversations — in kitchens, in cars, on benches in front of buildings, in the five minutes before sleep. So the thanks go to the people who let me listen, and whose names are not in the book. They know who they are.

Thanks to Graham Nicholls and The Priority Academy — for the course that made me a practitioner, not a reader, and for twenty-five workbooks that gave me structure.

Thanks to Daniel Goleman — for the book about the dark side, the first I read about this, which taught me what no “light” NLP manual says.

Thanks to the people who wrote critiques of NLP. It sounds strange, but without them this book would be an advertisement. A book that does not know its own weakness is worth nothing.

And thanks to those who told me that something in the book did not work. There were more of them than those who said it was good — and they were more useful.