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The Compliance Recipe, Part 3: Intermittent Rewards

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This is the final part of a 3-part series.  Part [...]

The Compliance Recipe, Part 2: Believable Authority and Earn-Reward

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 [...]

The Compliance Recipe, Part 1: Compartmentalized Thinking

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, [...]

Pimp Week 3: Iceberg Concluded

This is the final installment of Pimp Week. For this, it’ll be a straightforward post. I’ll be finishing the story I started in these two posts here and here.
When last we saw the pimp Iceberg Slim, he was being tested by his newest, prettiest whore in front of the rest of his stable of older, [...]

Pimp Week 2: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene Interpreted

This is a follow-up analysis post to this post, which VK, Des and Roissy did a ridiculously good job taking apart in the comments section. Maybe this one was too easy (or the commenters are just too damn good). Anyways, let me see if there’s anything left for me to add. To save you the [...]