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253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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The Gift of Intuition

The con man has the advantage of a massive asymmetry. He or she gets to spend a lot of time crafting this initial first impression. The mark gets what Gavin De Becker calls the gift of fear. We have a very finely tuned sense of intuition when it comes to danger.

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