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In theory, leverage is the ability to inflict loss and withhold gain. Where does your counterpart want to gain and what do they fear losing? Discover these pieces of information, we are told, and you’ll build leverage over the other side’s perceptions, actions, and decisions.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
CHAPTER 2: CHOOSE WISELY
Tom Bartow • Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life
Small cards frequently take tricks when attached to long suits (four or more cards in the suit).
Eddie Kantar • Bridge for Dummies
Seduction is a game of psychology, not beauty, and it is within the grasp of any person to become a master at the game.
Robert Greene • The Art of Seduction
The tip is deceptively simple: distinguish between content and process.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
Knowing why and how you will win before you start is critical to know what game you are looking for in the first place.
Walker Deibel • Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
you were already willing to pull an arm, and it has just paid off, that should only increase your estimate of its value, and you should be only more willing to pull it again. And indeed, win-stay turns out to be an element of the optimal strategy
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Inherent in the strategies of the bad guys in the tournament were two mistaken assumptions. The first was that later rounds would be like earlier rounds. Yet many programs, including TFT, paid attention to prior moves and responded accordingly, eventually punishing bad behavior.