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Hey

What are you best books on " persuasion " or generally understanding what people want, why they behave like they do etc ?

>> No.15109398

>>15109380
not really sure what you ask for, but is alwasy good to read how to make friends and influence people.

Also read the female mind, for understanding women.

>> No.15109410

>>15109398
I heard about the first one, is it that good ?

>> No.15109423

>>15109410
most of the time is old advice to be a nice guy people want to be friends with rather than being an average guy that most people don't want to be friendly.

It's useful if you want to learn make friends with random people.

>> No.15109436

Jane Austen's novels, in particular, "Persuasion"

>> No.15109498

>>15109436
>>15109423
Thank's

>> No.15109513

>>15109380
Freud to start with.
Lacan to finish with.
Zizek for review.

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>>15109513

>> No.15109637

>>15109380
How is this not obvious ?
Anything relate to ego explains 99% of human behaviour , individual or collective ego and its painbody are responsible for it all.
Frame anything you want out of people in a way its similar to what is familiar to them.

>> No.15109650

>>15109380
Everyone who asks this question ends up being a creepy sociopath who shouldn't be given any recommendations.

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>>15109380

>> No.15109702

>>15109380
>The Master Game by DeRopp
>Prometheus Rising by Wilson

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>>15109684
>>15109702
Thank's frens

>> No.15109879

>>15109380
Those are two different questions, yes to persuade people first you need to understand what their values and and why they behave the way they do. But Persuasion is a different skillset in itself which requires taking that knowledge, taking what you want to achieve, and then some how marrying them together.
Who are you trying to persuade? Reading Daniel Dennett or Richard Feymann use totally different means of communicating to their audience as someone like Demosethenes who has a different means of communicating than Lady Gaga or a used car salesman.
I still think Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria is probably your best place to start since what it covers about rhetoric is pretty universal.
Any biography about Lyndon Johnson and Bernie Ecclestone should also be good. Very different approaches, but both marked by a fundamental understanding of leverage and how to use it.

>> No.15110022

>>15109879
Thank you very much I will look further into every one of those characters

>> No.15110115

>>15109398
Machiavelli