What have you learned about mind control from Amway?

Question

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?

Answer 1

These are brainwash techniques. There are more.

- principle of social proof -
- psychology of compliance : everybody is doing it so you should be doing it too.
- Reciprocation: you accepted something so you must do something for return
- constant repetition:
Do you like apples?
No
So you like oranges then?
No
What do you like?
Pineapples.
Do you like apples?
No.
You must say you like apples. Do you like pineapples?
Yes.
Do you like oranges?
No.
Do you like pineapples?
Yes.
Do you like apples?
No.
Do you like oranges?
Yes.
Do you like pineapples?
Yes.
Do you like oranges?
No.
Do you like apples?
No
Do you like pineapples?

and so on and so forth, until the victim gives in.

Answer 2

Yes