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632: Chase Hughes | The Behavioral Table of the Elements

The Art of Charm

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Skills Don't Trump Authority

In a Yale study, 80% of people shocked another human being to death because a guy in a lab cot told him to. The only person that was a volunteer for the experiment was the person delivering the shocks. Yikles: What do you mean that skills don't trump authority? Are we talking about the ability to persuade someone using little techniques and tactics is dwarfed by the results when somebody just has a higher level of authority? Yes, ok. Let's go over it.

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