Did you just buy something in one
of the festival flash sales and repented your decision because soon after the
purchase you realised that it wasn’t something that you really needed? Wondering how it happened! You just
fell prey to one of the weapons of influence-‘Scarcity’. Dr Robert Cialdini, a
professor of Psychology, in his book ‘Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion’,
lists out six powerful weapons of influence that are employed by people around
us including salesmen, teachers, parents, children etc to persuade us and
surrender to their requests.
Have you ever felt like banging your ahead against the wall for any decision you made, going by your intuitive judgment? Have you ever thought why a single failed decision of a successful person tumbles his/her reputation like a pack of cards? Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate has answered them all in his best-selling book “Thinking, Fast and Slow”.
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