Self Improvement
My Thoughts On “Winning” People Over Techniques
“Judge actions by their consequences; judge people by their intent.”
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3 min readDec 31, 2019
I actually have read a couple of books I would classify as teaching you techniques to “win” people over. The most famous example, of course, is this one:
And the most recent one I read:
They teach you all kind of techniques most people would call manipulative and I agree. But really, when do you consider something manipulative? Is wearing makeup or adding a filter to your Snap picture considered manipulative too?
I believe the question shouldn’t be “Is it manipulative or not”, instead, it should be “Is it, relatively seen, good or not?” I even made a chapter about relativism while applying it to my…
