Check out this video (at 4:15), where Tony Robbins claims that he makes someone who stutters fluent after 20 years of stuttering! In my opinion, Tony engages in irresponsible marketing. Having that said, Tony is highly inspirational but he should stick to change the possible and not the impossible. Tony's mission is to change other people's lives, maybe we as a community should change Tony's life and understanding of stuttering. You can create an inspirational moment to kick start and keep up change but you cannot make someone fluent in a day!!
As he is coming to England with this video in 2013, the BSA might be able to report him to the I-cant-remember-the-name agency for irresponsible marketing. NOTE: Maybe we can find this guy called Waschad (spelling?) and get him to "say" a few words.
advertising standards agency
ReplyDeleteI am rashad and i have been given 1000 pounds to act like i have achieved the impossible :)
ReplyDeleteWho is this guy fooling? Not me atleast. His talk can just boost people for a few minutes then our brain goes back again to its normal activity.
Its not easy to change a habit. :)
Same holds for stutters. We can be fluent to a great extent if we practice practice practice.
Here's a video of Rechaud Bell : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rNiWw9IVyc
ReplyDeleteIts not irresponsible marketing. Tony Robbins teaches us that ultimately, the condition of stuttering is deep embedded in our minds. He teaches us how to overcome this by Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP.
ReplyDeleteI agree to some extent about the difficulty in changing habbit, but ulimately what is habit. Its our minds way of programming us. And who programs the mind...our past experiences. Highly recommend you read one of his books, whether you a skeptic or not, to see what I am talking about.
@Anonym: Stuttering is NOT a habit. It is a genetic condition in many cases, and neuroimaging has seen clear differences... You have no clue about the science behind stuttering.
ReplyDeleteTom you have no proof that stuttering is a genetic condition. That literature does not exist and you know it. Stuttering is a habit, a way of coping. Neuroimaging is not evidence either. It is a static test which does not show abnormal wiring in every stutterers brain and also does not show whether this occurred from birth or later as a result of changed behaviours related to a stutter. I thought you were a scientist?
ReplyDeleteI know of people who stopped stuttering without therapy. I was highly sceptical but they have. Some did it by confronting their fears, others through therapy, others it just stopped they tell me. All of which would be impossible if what you falsely promote were true.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous is 100% correct. Stuttering is a 'learned behaviour' it is not genetic.
People who stutter do not have anything physically wrong with their speech. It's
all psychological.
People who stutter are fluent when they are alone, they can say whatever words
they choose without stuttering.
I have recently used Tony Robbins techniques in NLP to overcome my stutter. A
debilitating stutter, I had for 37 years. I concluded that I used stuttering
as a defence mechanism when I was a child to avoid being bullied by my older
brother. I then taught myself that I no longer had to keep the childhood mentality
I had brought into my adult life. I decided to become an adult, to step up and
take responsibility.
In just 2 weeks my life has totally changed. I am 42 years old and I have been
accepted into a Post Graduate Degree in Teaching Information Technology. My
general overall standard of life has also changed. I no longer hide in life.
Instead I step up and do!!
God bless Tony Robbins