Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction
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Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction
Take a minute to consider where you fall on the Manipulation Matrix. Do you use your own product or service? Does it influence positive or negative behaviors? How does it make you feel? Ask yourself if you are proud of the way you are influencing the behavior of others.
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Don’t try to manipulate people who run this survival pattern. Remember, their whole system is focused on detecting manipulation and opposing it. They are not afraid of your anger and hatred, but they are…
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Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Manipulation = persuasion where the intention is hidden, and the intention NEEDS to be hidden for the persuasion to “work”
-Simone Grace Seol
rob hardy and added
Once people do not trust themselves, they are subject to easy manipulation.
Joel Kramer • The Guru Papers
The Morality of Manipulation
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
What they do not realize—and what you must realize—is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.”
Brandon Sanderson • Mistborn: The Final Empire
If you want to change someone’s behavior, easier than altering their motivation or changing their actual environment is altering their perception of reality. This third way of manipulating a human is a shortcut—a cheat—made possible by one of human evolution’s best tricks:Delusion.
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
MacIntyre does not shrink from specifying the moral aspect: the large-scale manipulation of individuals. Not just manipulation of the way in which they organise their work, and thus their lives, but, more broadly, manipulation of the way they think about themselves and others.