Dark Psychology Secrets
Daniel James Hollins
Summary
The dark secrets of psychology those in power don't want you to know about. This is how we're all being manipulated and the tactics governments, politicians and people use to brainwash you
Rating: 3/5
Notes
Covert emotional manipulations where one gains control over another’s mind without their knowledge by making conversations with the listeners subconscious
Initial step is build a connection
Complement strangers or laugh at their jokes
Next step is to switch off the listener’s conscious mind ‘What if…’ or ‘Imagine this…’
Mirroring gets some to like and agree with you by copying their body language
When being manipulated, call it out and assertively point at how
Dark psychology within your own mind is unpredictable
Dark psychology assumes all people have the potential for violence
Distraction is an essential element of social control by flooding populations with trivial information to divert attention from problems and important changes decided by political and economic elites
Puppet masters don’t want to activate people’s thoughtful sides but rather stir up emotions and reach people’s unconscious
Make the individual believe he/she is a culprit of their own misfortune so they doubt their intelligence, ability and efforts
Play subliminal messages during sleep
Methods of persuasion:
- Create a need
- Appeal to societal needs
- Use loaded words and images
- Get your foot in the door with a small request
- Go big then go small
- Utilize the power of reciprocity
- Create an anchor point for negotiations
- Limit your availability/introduce scarcity
Don’t fall into manipulative people’s traps
Steer clear of manipulators wherever possible
Call them out on their behaviour
Ignore everything they do and say
Trust your judgment
Try not to fit in
Never ask for permission
Keep taking new opportunities
Let go of harmful relationships
Always follow your gut when cutting people out of your life
Do hard things and keep doing them even when you think you can’t
Give yourself positive self-talk throughout the day
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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