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Psychological Manipulation-4: How to Defend Our Point of View
Certainly, not by shouting, screaming, or throwing ourselves at each other like we see on TV. After all, we are civilized people. The people on television, as primitive as their behavior may be, actually have one goal — to look strong. The non-primitive version of this is having a correct logical flow, an appropriate tone…
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Psychological Manipulation-3: Techniques and Common Types
Today’s post will be a long one. I didn’t want to split it into parts, but for easier navigation, I’ve added a table of contents. You can read the whole thing, or just the parts that interest you. We’ve already talked about examples of manipulation before. Now, we’ll dive into the techniques themselves — not…
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Psychological Manipulation-2: Key Techniques
Sometimes I say to myself, “No, these people can’t be that stupid.” With a bit of logic, they’d see that what they believe is nonsense, that what’s being said is lies. It doesn’t work. Worse still, they start teaching engineers engineering, doctors medicine, biologists biology. In the social sciences it’s even worse. History, sociology, psychology…
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Psychological Manipulation Series – Part 1: Introduction
In the “How to Know Yourself” series, we explored how individuals drifting through daily life can transform into those who know what they’re doing and why. We talked about how we lose touch with ourselves amid everyday busyness and how that distance quietly lowers our quality of life. Finally, we looked at how the questions…
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Navigating Depression This Winter: Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
As winter sets in, it’s not just the flu that spreads like a virus—depression does too. The walls start to close in on you, the clouds weigh down on you, going to work feels like a burden, and even the simplest daily tasks begin to exhaust you. Add financial troubles and social relationship issues to…
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ChatGPT in Coding: Insights and Challenges
I started working as a software engineer in April. For years, I had done nothing related to software. As an electronics engineer, software was something on the side that helped me as much as it needed to—or if we think of it as a language, it was something I had just enough of to express…
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