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728: Maria Konnikova | The Confidence Game

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Limit Setting

One of the things that i learned from people who were professional cult infiltrators, because they went into cults to try to extract people who had fallen for the cult leaders. In a way, cults are kind of the ultimate kon because they really prey on your deepest beliefs in what they told me. You always have to go through an exercise where you try to visualize everything that could possibly happen in the encounter that would make you go beyond what you're comfortable doing. That will prevent you from going beyond your comfortable limit. It's kind of the opposite technique, but it also works really well.

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