在班德勒的新書『Get the Life You Want』(2008）的序言裏面，
他把自己描述成數學家，
這讓我有些疑惑，
他不是學程式設計的嗎？
於是我查了一下英文版的維基百科。
為甚麼是英文版呢？
你猜對了，中文版（不管是台灣的正體或者大陸的簡體）維基百科，
還沒有班德勒的條目。
查詢的結果，我把跟我想知道的部份轉貼如下：
資料來源：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bandler
Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author on modern psychological techniques. He is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a collection of concepts and techniques intended to understand and change human behavior patterns. He also developed other systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).
Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)[1] and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco.
Mr Bandler is considered an important figure in the development of the modern self-improvement movement. Apparently he once was invited by the psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, to attend, record and transcribe a teaching seminar of family therapist Virginia Satir. He was later hired to assist Spitzer edit one of gestalt therapist Fritz Perls' (who had recently died) books, The Gestalt Approach (1973) and to assist with checking transcripts for Eye Witness to Therapy (1973).[2] According to Spitzer, "[Bandler] came out of it talking and acting like Fritz Perls."[1]
While Bandler was a student at University of California, Santa Cruz he also led a Gestalt therapy group. John Grinder, who became one of his students, said to Bandler that he could explain almost all of the questions and comments Bandler made using transformational grammar, the topic in linguistics that Grinder specialized in. They developed a model for therapy and called it the meta-model. It became their first book, The Structure of Magic, Volume I (1975). Bandler was Gregory Bateson's landlord, who taught at UCSC, Kresge College as did Grinder, and had moved to a community on Alba Road near the Santa Cruz mountains community of Ben Lomond. Bateson would have a profound influence on Bandler's future, he introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, which formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming.[3] In 1975 Bandler then formed his own publishing company, Meta Publications, and published Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975).
Bandler and Grinder went on to author The Structure of Magic Volume II (1976), Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II (1977) and Changing With Families (1976), which was co-authored with Virginia Satir herself.
Richard Bandler is the most significant creator of the models and techniques that are now taught in NLP. For example, meta model, Milton model, anchoring, swish pattern, reframing, belief change, nesting loops, chaining states, and submodalities applications.[citation needed]
Bandler also modeled Israeli physicist and founder of the Feldenkrais school of body work, Moshe Feldenkrais, and later published his book "The Elusive Obvious". In many of his classes, he has taught elements of this form of bodywork which he modeled.[citation needed]
Since that time, Bandler's career has focused on developing and presenting NLP and related concepts as an author, publisher, public speaker, and consultant. Audiences include individuals seeking life improvements, and businesses using these concepts and techniques to improve sales.
原來老班今年剛剛好滿六十歲。
從他大學跟研究所的學歷來看，
基本上他是學心理學的，勉強說學了數學或者電腦，
但是丟掉心理學只說數學，這顯然又是老班想要給自己塑立形象的一種努力。
我會這麼說，
是因為我的書架上躺著三本老班這幾年來寫的新書，
Get the LIfe You Want（2008）剛剛翻譯成中文出版了，
其他兩本（Conversations with Richard Bandler（2009）以及Guide to Trance-formation（2008））不知道啥時候能夠翻譯成中文，
而這三本有個共同點，就是老班在書中拼命明示或者暗示，
NLP的哪些哪些是他的創見或者發明。
這種作法大概跟老班和老葛那場官司的協議有關，
他們同意接受承認彼此作為NLP的共同創造者（Cocreator），
同時避免對於對方對NLP的貢獻提出質疑或者攻擊，
呵呵，所以我才認為，老班這兩年的三本書，
像是在為他自己塑造NLP的正統地位與形象所作的努力。
另外，關於老班早年的事情，
這一篇文章非讀不可，Virginia Satir & Origins of NLP。
根據這篇文章的作者Robert Spitzer的說法，
是Spitzer介紹Richard Bandler認識了Virginia Satir，
稍後Spitzer又介紹老班認識了Perls。
至於John Grinder呢？則是老班在大學的時候帶領完形治療的團體，
老葛來湊熱鬧，後來大感興趣，就參一腳，成為那個團體的協助帶領者。
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當然，你或許會質疑說，這些資料都是站在班德勒這邊的，
的確如此，我也想到這個大問題。
所以，如果有人讀過『沿路都是烏龜』或者『在風中低語』的，
歡迎補充老葛那邊的說法。
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