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This is the book I've been looking for the last five years without realizing it. It presents a theoretical approach that unifies all of the bits and pieces of the psychology I know. Influence tied a nice little bow around everything -- pretty fantastic.
What I got out of this book was not so much how to influence people, but more how to influence myself, and the lines along which I should expect to be influenced. Every two pages I found myself staring out into space while I tried to connect all t ...more
What I got out of this book was not so much how to influence people, but more how to influence myself, and the lines along which I should expect to be influenced. Every two pages I found myself staring out into space while I tried to connect all t ...more
Brilliant book. How often we make decisions automatically and do things which we did not want to. This book elaborates the automatic procedures in brain which gets triggered and how we can safeguard ourselves from such situations.
Many marketers, politicians, fundraisers, religious, etc. try to persuade us not with arguments, but with tricks. And they can be really good at it. This happens more often than most people realise. This book is the best defense we can get from these exploiters (and sometimes even the best counterattack).
Jan 26, 2014
Hugh Betcha
marked it as to-read
Mar 09, 2014
Anna
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Oct 04, 2014
Kuba Stechly
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May 07, 2015
Zhaslan Doschanov
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it was amazing
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Tanmay Bindal
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