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The Science of Persuasion | Vanessa Bohns

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

Are We More Helpful Than We Think?

The things that we kind of want to influence people to do are actually more within reach than we tend to think. That tendency to be helpful is exploitable through abusers and con men. We tend to have this default assumption that other people don't want to agree to the things that we're going to ask them. And so it's something, you know, it's a very Spider-Man-y sort of conclusion where it's like with great power comes this responsibility.

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