The Key to a Limitless Life From Jim Kwik — Limitless. I had always felt that there were only two things you can control in your life; attitude and effort. Your attitude is your thinking and thought patterns. It represents your mindsets, beliefs and habits, and they, in turn, express your how you view the world…

One of the most enduring and influential methods of critical thinking and analysis, even today, was developed nearly 2500 years ago, by someone who made no writing of his own and was sentenced to death for his relentless questioning. …

WHY THINGS BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE THE LESS AVAILABLE THEY ARE. NO. 6 SCARCITY Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. 6 Weapons of Influence. Why is it that when something we want or need is difficult to obtain our desire to possess it increases? This is the strange phenomenon of scarcity, a powerful weapon…

NO. 5 AUTHORITY Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. 6 Weapons of Influence. In July 1961 Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, began conducting an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. This was one year after the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, one of the…

NO. 4 LIKING Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. 6 Weapons of Influence. WHY WE BUY MORE FROM PEOPLE WE LIKE AND PEOPLE WHO ARE SIMILAR TO US. A group of researchers studying the Pennsylvanian Judicial system realized that defendants that were better-looking and better presented at court received a more favorable treatment than those that were less well presented and (perhaps) less good-looking. Handsome men received significantly…

How other people tell us what to think. NO. 3 SOCIAL PROOF Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. 6 Weapons of Influence. If you ever thought that “liking” or using a heart emoji was something new and only invented and used by millennials you’d be wrong! In the 1820s two famous Paris Opera “habitues” (regular Opera-goers), Saunton and Porcher, created a phenomenon…

Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. 6 Weapons of Influence. In a recent discussion with my son about the fundamental nature of stories, I made a patently wrong rash generalization. …

A Strategy for Pursuasion and Influence GETTING BACK BIG, BY GIVING SMALL FIRST. Extracted from: Robert Cialdini — Influence. The psychology of Persuasion. In the 1970’s Ellen Langer, a Harvard social psychologist carried out an experiment that highlighted a fundamental human truth. …

The quality of the answer is determined by the quality of the questions. “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. …