Psychology

Do you think being persuasive is a matter of personality or skill? Does persuasion come naturally to you? Some people owe their persuasion powers to their personality—it comes naturally to them. If that’s not the case for you, don’t panic! According to Scott Adams, persuasion is a skill that can be developed through practice, just like anything else. No matter whether you are taking the logic or the emotion route, the following persuasion principles hold true for both.

Do you want to improve your persuasion skills? What tactics do master persuaders use to sway people to their point of view? If you want to level up your persuasion game, there is no shortage of methods that teach you how to exercise your skills. The following persuasion tactics are taken from Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter. Here are some tactics every aspiring persuader should know.

Do you tend to appeal to logic or emotion when trying to persuade someone? What’s the best method to convince someone to make a decision or come over to a point of view? There are broad categories of persuasion methods, ranging from logical reasoning to appeals to emotion. In his book Wing Bigly, Scott Adams considers some persuasion methods to be terribly weak and others to be formidably strong. Here’s an overview of Scott Adams’ persuasion methods in the descending order of effectiveness.

Are humans more rational or emotional in their decision-making? Do you think you tend to make decisions based more on logic or emotion? Many people would say that their decisions are ruled mostly by reason and logic. But the truth is most people actually make decisions more irrationally than they realize. We are all subject to biases and cognitive heuristics and pulled by our emotions. We make decisions first, and rationalize them after the fact. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most common cognitive heuristics and demonstrate how they manifest with real-world examples.