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For all the flak Paris Hilton gets, deserved and undeserved, I give her credit for one thing; she has basically created a new type of celebrity: the tabloid star. The tabloid star is not the old model of [...]
One of my favorite books of all time for gaining insight on human nature is the The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley. It’s got some great insightful quotes, and I’ve decided to phone one in take this time to share some of them. What follows are Malcolm’s views on various [...]
This one is long, but if I may toot my own horn, it’s so damn good and important that I suggest you take the time and read it all.
This is the final part of a 3-part series. Part 1 is here. And here’s part 2.
This series has been all about compliance, or getting people to [...]
Continuing from this post.
The 3 steps to building compliance, as mentioned before, are:
Believable Authority
Earn-Reward Method
Intermittent Rewards
To get compliance, you first need to establish believable authority. There are many ways to do this, but the easiest way is to just have an authoritative title and position. Owner. President. CEO. Of course that’s not always enough. If [...]
One of the things I like to encourage people to do when analyzing human nature is to avoid compartmentalizing their insights. To compartmentalize an insight means that you have learned a specific insight but are only able to understand and apply it in the original context in which it was taught to you.
For example, [...]
