Owen

I'm seeing someone on Locals.

And it's Steven, just as expected.

I never knew which direction the thing was going to go.

It kept changing.

Every few seconds, it was like almost like a different kind of music.

It's kind of a schoolhouse rock vibe on the video.

Um, well, like at the very beginning, it started again.

So it like played for two seconds and then it started over.

But, um, and then it started from the beginning and played all the way through.

I think it's a great technique.

I think it is very true that when people are coming from a place of identity that they're not going to just be convinced out of it.

And I think I've heard similar techniques like Chase Hughes has been doing a lot of podcasts recently and I've been listening to those because he's talking all about persuasion and how to manipulate people and different things and how to know when people are lying and all sorts of different things.

I think he wrote some kind of book or something.

But, you know, he mentioned something similar.

He said, you know, if you give someone kind of a frame like that, like, I really like that you're this way or that you're this kind of person that all of a sudden they'll kind of conform to that expectation that you just set for them when they might not have otherwise.

And I think that's exactly what Scott was describing was if you can essentially compliment them for being the way that you want them to be.

And obviously, it has to be a positive thing.

You can't be like, I like the fact that you're a Nazi.

But if you can put it in a positive frame where they're like, yeah, that's who I want to be, then all of a sudden, it kind of hijacks the rest of the persuasion stack.

We talked last time about the thoughts and words and beliefs and the different things that kind of cascade into actions.