This category includes TPM’s innovative concepts in self-help, social strategies, power dynamics, and general goal-achievement and life success.
Power Protecting: How to Keep Win-Win With High-Value People
Power protecting is specular and complementary to “self-defense”.
But instead of maintaining your own power, you ensure that others get to maintain theirs.
This is how you do it…
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The Law of Optimum Balance
The law of optimum balance states that the peak of effectiveness for many traits is to be found within the extremes, and that many traits that are beneficial at certain levels turn bad, ineffective, or harmful at extreme levels of total lack or oversupply. Many positive traits that people aspire to and work towards follow…
Naive Self-Help: 10 Popular But False Self-Help Myths
Naive self-help refers to self-help authors and products that distort reality, provide sub-optimal advice, and potentially even harm the learner. Here at The Power Moves we know something about self-help.We’ve gone through thousands of self-help products, and we summarize and review hundreds of them. We’ve seen great products, and… Not so great ones. But… How…
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Why Straight Line Seduction Is The Best Dating System
Straight-line seduction is the dating framework of “closers” and successful seducers. The straight-line seduction approach to dating helps you to go from first meeting to intimate faster, more often, and more reliably. So in this post, we will learn exactly how the straight line seduction model helps you seduce better, and more often. Introduction First,…
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Power Intelligence (PI): What Is it, How to Increase It
Power Intelligence is the cognitive skill needed to understand, assess, and influence power dynamics. This article gives you an overview of power intelligence, including how to develop power intelligence. What’s Power Intelligence Let’s start with a definition of power intelligence: Power intelligence (PI), or power quotient (PQ), is the individual’s capability to recognize and influence patterns of power…
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The Judge Role: A Tool For Emotional Control
We talked about the “judge role” and the “judge frames” many times across this website. And for good reasons: judges are central figures of power dynamics -the emotional side of power dynamics-.Judges are relevant in all realms of human socialization, from general social dynamics to relationship power dynamics, to manipulation, to dating power dynamics. Understanding…
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Why Power Dynamics is The Most Important Self-Help Discipline
Power dynamics is the study of power. Including the study of how power affects goal achievement, success, life, status, and how it’s this power is actually negotiated, acquired, or lost. This website pioneered power dynamics as a branch of social skills and life strategies.And this whole website is dedicated to power dynamics (and social power…
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Social Strategy 101: High-Power / High-Warmth
The sweetspot for social effectiveness is high warmth, high power
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