The Book FM Should Have Written
Mar 24, 2018Robert B. Cialdini's book - "Influence: Science and Practice" - is an almost perfect complement to FM's wild evolutionary theories, expressed most thoroughly in CCCI.
FM went on and on about "subconscious behaviour" and how much that governs us - regardless of what we believe.
FM was 100% right about that, and Cialdini has produced the evidence.
It's taken society a wee longer to catch up to FM, but these days neuro-scientists get it. The rest of us are still little breathless about the whole concept…
However, Cialdini - as an empirical social scientist - went out in the world, got his mouth dirty practising, and proved this stuff. Read the entertaining result of all his fieldwork: "Influence" - now it's into its 5th Edition.
Next, read FM's CCCI Part I: remarkable for its prescience, if not its style.
In Cialdini's book he showed - over and over again - how much of our behaviour was being unconsciously triggered by "click - whur" routines; of which we had no awareness. We behave in easily predictable ways, despite believing the opposite.
FM on that:
"All the damned fools in the world believe they are actually doing what they think they are doing."
One tiny example (taken from the book)…
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A line of people waiting at a photocopier.
You rush up and ask: "Can I go to the front of the line?"
A majority of people will refuse it. Proved by multiple trials.
Do it again - different group, multiple trials - and this is what happens:
You rush up and ask: "Can I go to the front because I need to go to the front?"
They say: "Yes, ok."
What? !!!
There is a statistically significant increase in the affirmative response. In all tests.
Because of the "because…" It's that simple.
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When you become a competent ATSuccess Markeacher, you know all these things.
Here's another example of it at work - can you see it?
I'll disclose it tomorrow.
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I was a bit silly earlier this year.
I had a wonderful group of MasterMinders - teachers meeting with me online 6 times a month - and I decided to close it down for March. Because I was overwhelmed and confused - I needed time to DeepThink my future.
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