Manipulate your way to Success.

Do you enjoy having power over those around you? Do you like getting your way, always? Then this is going to help you more than you can imagine… read this thing if it is the last thing you do! There are these cool ‘short cuts’ in peoples minds that you can use to get them to do anything you want them to do. You could seemingly control them, and make them do your bidding. One of the tools I use to make my life easier is called cognitive dissonance, it is a wonderful software glitch in peoples heads.

What is cognitive dissonance?
Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The “ideas” or “cognitions” in question may include attitudes and beliefs, the awareness of one’s behavior, and facts. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Cognitive dissonance theory is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognition. This happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. For example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. Noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states. When people’s ideas are consistent with each other, they are in a state of harmony, or consonance. If cognition’s are unrelated, they are categorized as irrelevant to each other and do not lead to dissonance.

A powerful cause of dissonance is an idea in conflict with a fundamental element of the self-concept, such as “I am a good person” or “I made the right decision.” The anxiety that comes with the possibility of having made a bad decision can lead to rationalization, the tendency to create additional reasons or justifications to support one’s choices. A person who just spent too much money on a new car might decide that the new vehicle is much less likely to break down than his or her old car. This belief may or may not be true, but it would likely reduce dissonance and make the person feel better. Dissonance can also lead to confirmation bias, the denial of dis confirming evidence, and other ego defense mechanisms.

Just think of that for a few minutes. You just got a magic bullet to play with, you might not have even realized it.

How can I use this to manipulate people?

This is pretty wonderful. Everyone has a self image, their perception, how they see themselves and most of the time its a very flattering image they see. Almost everyone thinks that they are-

• Smart
• Unique
• Pretty
• Non-generic (variant of unique)
• Endowed with hidden gifts
• Special
• Divine
• Good
• Philosophically Knowledgeable

So what you are going to do is use their perception if themselves as your tool. Cognitive dissonance makes a “good person” do good things, so make (you should get it by now!) the masses do what you want.

What are you saying? You want an example?
Ok. Here is a dialog. Bz is a light skin Brazilian who is beautiful. She is asking me what I do, I do not wish to tell her what I do. So I use cognitive dissonance and I get her to quit asking.

Bz: What do you do?
Badboy: You don’t want to know that.
Bz: why not?
Badboy: Its a boring question, lets let the dull people ask such questions, we are too interesting for such mediocre questions.
Bz: (she flashes the most wonderful smile).

This is a great tool that you can use to get a lot done. Think of all the things you can do with this!