Summary of Wladislaw Jachtchenko's The Manipulation Bible

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#1 You are a born manipulator. You have been manipulating people since you took your first breath. You are constantly manipulating others to get your own way, and you will continue to do so to the end.

#2 Manipulation is not to be confused with persuasion, which is openly influencing someone for a credible reason. It is typically a covert operation, in which you exploit the ignorance of a defenseless, unsuspecting victim.

#3 When people’s interests are in play, every interaction becomes a game of communicative chess. And there are always opportunities to checkmate your opponent.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540835

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You are a born manipulator. You have been manipulating people since you took your first breath. You are constantly manipulating others to get your own way, and you will continue to do so to the end.

#2

Manipulation is not to be confused with persuasion, which is openly influencing someone for a credible reason. It is typically a covert operation, in which you exploit the ignorance of a defenseless, unsuspecting victim.

#3

When people’s interests are in play, every interaction becomes a game of communicative chess. And there are always opportunities to checkmate your opponent.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Top 10 Manipulative Skills are: seeming confident when you haven’t got a clue, dazzling people with your appearance, building a quick rapport, telling the perfect lie, forcing people into agreement, steering the conversation with questions, overwhelming people with emotions, attacking the content and shutting down disagreeable conversations.

#2

To be confident when you don’t know, you must seem like you know what you’re talking about even when you don’t. This can be accomplished by maintaining eye contact with the other person, making active gestures as you speak, and standing up straight and directly facing them.

#3

When you can’t come up with an adequate factual answer to a question, one inconspicuous technique to make you sound smarter than you are is abstraction. You can avoid saying anything specific about the Bologna reform, and instead comment on the notion of reforms in general.

#4

A subtle trick that politicians use constantly is gradual digression from the original question towards a subject they’re more comfortable with. You can use this to steer the conversation away from a particular topic and towards something else.

#5

Point-blank deflection is a way of fending off uncomfortable questions and statements. If someone asks you a question, and you don’t have a answer, you can shoot back, That’s not the question we should be asking.

#6

To hide your own ignorance, agree with and approve of what the other person says. People are susceptible to flattery, and they'll forget that you