My Amway experience in the early 90s ended with me out over $7,000 plus having wasted hundreds of hours of my time. But I did get a valuable lesson in mind control, things like:
+ use sleep deprivation to break down people's defenses
+ use the big lie
+ lies. if repeated often enough, come to be believed
+ shower public praise on those who are doing what you want
+ ignore those who are not doing what you want
+ talk about the potential rewards, but never the probability of that actually being achieved
+ imply that others are having success even when they are not
+ engage those being manipulated in the manipulation of others
+ regardless how bad an idea is never concede that
+ mask your intention to manipulate as intention to help
+ avoid rational thinking by constantly appealing to emotion
+ ridicule all alternative courses of action
+ argue that it if enough people accept an idea that makes it right
Are there any that I missed?
2006-07-26
00:18:14
·
2 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous
in
Psychology