Reddit reviews Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)

Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan. This was a great book on the importance of mindfulness and emotional intelligence.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. Helped me get on the path to decluttering my life.

No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert Glover helped me to stop seeking approval from others and insuring my own needs are met.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini. A good introduction to social psychology.

These are just a few I've read in the past few years that have helped me. Good luck!

Thanks for the recommendation. Three non-fiction books that I like that might appeal to others who enjoy HPMOR:

Influence, Robert Cialdini. This is like a handbook of ways that people may try to short circuit your rational thinking. And it is written well enough for casual reading, not totally textbook style. Favorite quotes:

• "[P]eople at the racetrack: Just after placing a bet, they are much more confident of their horse's chances than they are immediately before laying down the bet."
  
  
• "[I]t is apparent that good looking people enjoy enormous social advantage in our culture. They are better liked, more persuasive, more frequently helped, and seen as possessing better personality traits and intellectual capabilites" [i.e., why it is worth paying attention to your appearance]
  
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  Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means, William Vollmann. The title pretty much explains it. Quote:
  
  
• "The simple law of might accords respect to an armed individual [...] another way of saying that security is a precondition for autonomy. One long-standing labor unionist and civil rights activist had to contend with the active hostility of American police. In a certain town, Ku Klux Klan recruiting posters adorned the police station. The activist recalls:
  "I am convinced that I'm alive today because I traveled with firearms -- and that this fact was generally known." "
  
  I enjoyed this book more for the "true facts" aspect of historical accounts of the use of violence than the attempt to create a moral calculus. I only have the abridged version.
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  Bargaining For Advantage, G. Richard Shell. This is a straightforward pretty short (~250 page) book about bargaining/negotiation. It is about identifying the situation you are in, evaluating the other parties, evaluating your own tendencies (and if it might be better to delegate), and conducting the business. amazon

It's good you are trying to do things as an individual, and should continue. However, it's really like taking a drop of water from the ocean. Pretty much unnoticeable. But it's still important so don't stop. At the very least you become a role model and your activities will create conversation with others.

1. Beyond your individual efforts - join a group. Become an activist. Mobilize. Three of the below are youth based. I'm not sure of CCL has a youth group, but they need to if they don't. Be active in these groups.
   
   https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-xr-youth-network/
   
   https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
   
   https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/
   
   https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
   
   
2. Are your friends concerned? Make them concerned if they aren't. Not a convincing person? Read a book called "Influence" by Paul Cialdini and Google search "Monroes Motivated sequence". At the teen level you can do this, and the skills you will learn from those two items will be invaluable for the rest of your life. Convince your friends. Make them activists. Mobilize. Protest.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials-ebook/dp/B002BD2UUC
   
   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMb65w9nLyo
   
   
   
3. Convince the voting age adults around you, and get your now activist friends to do the same. Afraid they won't listen? Well, after step two you should have skills. You have a better chance of convincing them than other adults even without that great persuasion experience you now have https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/
   
   
4. Continue. Recruit more people. Get your recruits to recruit more people. Mobilize. Protest. Repeat. Don't give up. Don't stop. Keep going.

The Master of Influence who worked with her has a chapter in his first book that says "censoring a source makes it appear more credible".

Apparently she didn't listen. What a dumbass.

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials-ebook/dp/B002BD2UUC

Robert Cialdini wrote it to try to protect customers from various sales tactics, but it backfired and mostly sold to salesmen lol...

> There are so many offers and specials for ebooks outside of the Amazon marketplace that you will not notice any difference.

Can you provide some pointers? I usually see the best deals on Amazon (such as $2.99 for this book in today's daily deal) and I thought those couldn't be beat.

Are you giving away a story free to subscribers? Where in your front matter / back matter do you put your CTA (Call to Action) to entice them to sign-up? Do you use images or just text? For every 100 books you sell (or give away free), how many subscribers are you getting on average? It's work, but it's soooo worth it.

ETA: Throwing some power words into your CTA/headline might help too. The Lust column on that page, for instance, has some juicy words to use for your CTA/headline. Have I mentioned the importance of your CTA/headline enough yet? ;)

ETA TOO: If you want some homework, read Influence by Cialdini and/or Tested Advertising Methods for some basics on marketing. For even more author-specific newsletter tips, check out Mark Dawson and/or Nick Stephenson.

I recently read Influence by Dr. Robert B. Cialdini and based on that reading, yes, absolutely.

There's a chapter on the concept of Social Proof, which basically boils down to saying that when people are making decisions, they are strongly influenced by what other people are doing. Have you ever gone to a party and asked a friend what he's planning to wear because you aren't sure how to dress appropriately? Have you ever asked a waiter what dish is the most popular? Have you ever followed a crow, assuming that they know the way to an exit? Those are all examples of social proof.

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Coming back to fantasy novels, reviews and recommendations are social proof that we all use in making decisions. The appearance that a book is widely read and well liked makes us more likely to read it ourselves. Some books reach critical mass and snowball in popularity because they're already popular and therefore are considered a safe pick for someone who doesn't pride themselves in finding a diamonds in the rough. We pick books based on best-seller lists, editor's choices in book stores, and recommendations from friends, bloggers, and social media.

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So in general, yes, a book which has accumulated a sufficient number of positive reviews has gathered enough social proof that it becomes easier to market. It will be less common for a book to become popular due to a single review, but books can get a bump from an enthusiastic, popular blogger.

Ugh, this should be higher up the list. Not sales specifically, but the skills translate frictionlessly and also useful in life. In this same category I would put

• Word Hero by Jay Heinrichs as well.
  
• Verbal Judo by George Thompson
  
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
  
• Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini

I actually own a marketing agency that exclusively deals with distilleries and wineries, and there's a lot of research behind the psychology of this. A must read for anyone in sales/marketing/advertising

Not a video but the book Persuasion, The Psychology of Persuasion is a great read to understand how these non-verbal cues persuade people to act.

There's also the classic How To Win Friends and Influence People which discusses human nature and how to get on people's "good side."

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I never tried audio, I bought the hardback.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Selling-David-Hoffeld/dp/0143129325/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=science+of+selling&qid=1565117814&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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I thought it was quite useful all around guide to sales (buyer motives, 6 Whys people buy, company USP, closing). Interesting was the use of behavioural economics and psychology to inform the different techniques (such as innoculation theory). On that topic psychology and sales, the psychology of persuation and predictably irrational are both really great reads.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=predictably+irrational&crid=3UWT9GUFOSU8F&sprefix=predic%2Caps%2C151&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_6

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials-ebook/dp/B002BD2UUC/ref=sr_1_2?crid=16X7RHAWVI8QH&keywords=science+of+persuasion&qid=1565118078&s=books&sprefix=science+of+persua%2Calexa-skills%2C141&sr=1-2

This attitude makes me physically ill. As an apologist, you make the world a markedly worse place for the people you supposedly care about and you should be very ashamed.

All of you people clinging to Facebook's shit products are basically disease vectors. You enable the spread of a particularly dangerous social pathogen with your weakness, laziness and inability to learn how to influence the people closest to you.

I suggest you do the following in this order to stem the spread of the disease and redeem yourself as a human being:

• Stop acting like a fucking child
  
• Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials-ebook-dp-B002BD2UUC/dp/B002BD2UUC
  
• Use the information in said book to influence your circle to migrate into some innocuous social plasma like Telegram or Signal or literally anything else
  
• Delete your motherfucking FB accounts, so as to stop putting the rest of us at risk
  
• Tell other people how you did it so they can do the same