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Great analysis, Ali.
Could make its own case study.
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That's exactly the problem with always choosing the high-power option: it's not always the most effective option for you. And, paradoxically for those who didn't grasp the basics, not the best way to actually get power/status/respect and everything that's relevant in socialization and life.
And that's why I put it in the opening lesson in PU: your goal is not to always be and behave as high power as possible.
That example you showed, and the issues with it, are a great example of when "high power" is not optimal behavior.
Imagine a junior customer representative entering the room and uttering those words to the more experienced team and his boss. Yikes.
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Thanks Ali I m using it the other way. Adding those 'just' phrases to soften my delivery. Tasking anyone in Australia is a minefield.
Todd Grande: Deepak Chopra's contribution to society is to expose how easy it is to manipulate people.
It's a wake-up call to society. Society needs to promote the development of critical thinking skills
Yep, couldn't agree more.
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how easy it is to manipulate people.
An interesting book on that that I am currently reading is shadow man by Antonhy Napoleon.
A lot of interesting stuff, even if one does not agree with the main premises.
Recommend reading.
Cool channel:
- Street epistemology
Interesting videos on how to change people's beliefs.
Or, maybe as he would put it "how to help people question their beliefs".
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Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on June 20, 2021, 6:07 pmCool channel:
- Street epistemology
Interesting videos on how to change people's beliefs.
Or, maybe as he would put it "how to help people question their beliefs".
This channel is a goldmine!
The socratic method is certainly something I've heard about before, but I haven't seen this approach applied this effective and now totally see the power of it, especially as someone who hasn't much against a heated or even aggressive debate once in a while.
This method is certainly something to be aware of if you want to influence people in a positive way, and especially people you care about I think. Very interesting.
I haven't seen too much yet, but this 6 part series of theory and breakdown videos is quite insightful, as he analyzes and explains what he's doing and what he could have done better himself.
He is quite sophisticated in his approach, and there are a lot of themes from this site applied there as well, like the antifragile ego, power protecting others or a collarobative we-frame instead of me-vs-you, etc.
Thank you for this recommendation!
Coffeezilla
He's done some great work on calling out some manipulation going on in YouTube.
For example:
- TechLead crypto coin scam / manipulation
His style is a bit emotionally over-invested / over the top and derisive for my taste. But that doesn't take away from his work, some of which has been truly fantastic investigative journalism.
For example:
- Various "influencers" pitching money-making online casinos scams
And some good work calling out bling-bling gurus with fake or poor content.
For example:
- Grant Cardone
- Dan Lok
- Tai Lopez
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Playing With Fire
Solid guy with a solid grasp of dating power dynamics.
Was positively surprised to see we share many views, including:
- Some PUAs over-game (he's got a good review on Todd, albeit I think Todd is a great guy to learn from and he over-criticizes him)
- Many red pill coaches bring men up only to a certain level (ceiling effect), otherwise mislead them -especially when it comes to actual game and dating skills: as a rule of thumb: don't learn game from red pill coaches-
I was glad of seeing him highlight some poor mindsets and distance from the red pill and RSD when it comes to actual game
At times I've felt like I was the only one railing -and not making any inroads- on my own.
And more:
- RSD had some good stuff but for sure isn't -and wasn't- the best place to learn game and dating effectiveness
- AMS and many others focusing on "alpha male game" have some really poor dating advice (seen on this forum an example)
- Effective game is generally simple and natural-looking, and based on good social skills
I've been searching for a lot of infields and real-life examples and the guys who strike me as good models to learn proper game and social / power dynamics. And there aren't that many.
He's one of the good ones.
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P.S.:
One of his videos I liked was a breakdown of a text convo.
I thought it was such a cool idea, such a learning opportunity and so easy to do as a video, that I thought I might just do the same.
So if you want a free, personalized feedback on your text convo this is your opportunity.
Anonymize it, remove any names and personally identifiable information, send it, it to me and I'll make a video on it (and you'll hopefully learn a lot from it).
I might propose it to the newsletter later, but wanted to first share it here for the forum community.
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