September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
If you’re serious about resisting other people’s manipulations and thinking for yourself, it helps to be alert to how they’re trying to influence you. If you can spot it, it’s much easier to resist. So next time someone seeks to persuade, convince, cajole you round to their perspective, think about the strategies they’re using. Generally speaking, they’ll use emotion rather than logic. Your job, as a clear thinker, is to resist.
From the other person’s perspective, empathy is a good starting point. If someone can convince you that you both feel the same way, it seems like a much shorter step to thinking the same way. So a natural persuader will try to convince you that you’re both coming from the same ...