About This Episode
Being Manipulated
On a scale of 0-10, 0 being “not at all” and 10 being “ridiculously easy”, how easily do you think you could be manipulated into buying something you didn’t actually need?
It’s an interesting question, isn’t it?
Recently I asked the same question across multiple social media platforms to see what people thought.
Overwhelmingly the result was that people scored themselves mostly in the 0-2 range, commenting adamantly that if they didn’t need something then nobody could make them buy it.
Unfortunately, the evidence from the Real World is that most people massively over-estimate their ability to resist!
Why the disparity, and does it really matter?
That’s what we explore in this episode, as well as in the forthcoming book AntiManipulation.
