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The Compliance Recipe, Part 3: Intermittent Rewards

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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, [...]

Wish I Wrote This

Every now and then I come across something that I wish I wrote.  This piece from Craiglist’s “Best Of” section is a perfect example.  It’s called “Myths and Truths,” and I’ve reproduced it in full below.  I’m sure a few people will call it jaded and cynical, and it probably is, but that in no [...]