Scott Adams

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And the best way to do that is wait for the environment coincidentally to be in the right situation where your message can slip in. matched

I'll give you an example. matched

Suppose you wanted to make the case that in some domain, 97% of the experts turned out to be wrong. matched

So maybe in this next situation, completely unrelated, it's also possible that the experts could be wrong. matched

It would be useful to point to history and say, look, they used to be wrong back then. matched

Maybe they're wrong now. matched

but not nearly as good as pointing to a current news story that's in everybody's head. matched

If you can find that situation and say, look, look, the experts are all wrong right now. matched

You're living through it. matched

You're seeing it yourself. matched

Why couldn't they also have been wrong in this other example? matched

Now, of course, the two things are not connected, so there's not a logical connection. matched

It just allows the people to imagine it's possible. matched

So you've got to have a situation where people can easily imagine matched

that the thing you're persuading could be possible. matched

If they don't have something in their environment to make it imaginable, it just bounces right off. matched

And that's your lesson on persuasion for today. matched

there you go matched

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