You don't need to argue that something is false.
You don't need to argue that something is right.
There is a way to win any verbal confrontation by leveraging human nature.
You can just use this science-backed hack:
You don't need to argue that something is right.
There is a way to win any verbal confrontation by leveraging human nature.
You can just use this science-backed hack:
Before being right or wrong, people have the opinions they have in search of social status.
Opinions have become the flag bearers of a certain social group membership.
The truthfulness of what they express is not really important.
This is the lever we are going to use.
Opinions have become the flag bearers of a certain social group membership.
The truthfulness of what they express is not really important.
This is the lever we are going to use.
You don’t need to argue that something is false.
You just need to show that it’s associated with low status.
Also: You don’t need to argue that something is true.
You just need to show that it’s associated with high status.
You just need to show that it’s associated with low status.
Also: You don’t need to argue that something is true.
You just need to show that it’s associated with high status.
In his book "The Social Leap", psychologist William von Hippel writes:
“a substantial reason we evolved such large brains is to navigate our social world… A great deal of the value that exists in the social world is created by consensus rather than discovered in
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“a substantial reason we evolved such large brains is to navigate our social world… A great deal of the value that exists in the social world is created by consensus rather than discovered in
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...an objective sense… our cognitive machinery evolved to be only partially constrained by objective reality.”
This means our brains process information not only by examining the facts.
It primarily considers the social consequences of expressing our beliefs.
This means our brains process information not only by examining the facts.
It primarily considers the social consequences of expressing our beliefs.
People have a mechanism in their minds.
It stops them from saying something that could lower their status, even if it’s true.
And it propels them to say something that could increase their status, even if it’s false.
It stops them from saying something that could lower their status, even if it’s true.
And it propels them to say something that could increase their status, even if it’s false.
When low-status people express the truth, it sometimes becomes high-status to lie.
Opinions can confer status regardless of their truth value.
Opinions can confer status regardless of their truth value.
This is why the use of contempt remains one of the most used weapons in public debates.
The aim is to show that only rednecks think like that.
You have to remember that a debate's purpose is NEVER to convince the opponent of anything.
The aim is to show that only rednecks think like that.
You have to remember that a debate's purpose is NEVER to convince the opponent of anything.
A debate aim is to gain an audience on your side.
So you have to make them believe that your opinions are those of people with high status.
Any contrary opinion makes you a hobo.
So you have to make them believe that your opinions are those of people with high status.
Any contrary opinion makes you a hobo.
Supporting you therefore becomes an act of social status and tribal affiliation rather than a search for truth.
Humans don't care about abstract truths.
Humans don't care about abstract truths.
The only truth humans understand is that they need to be sheltered from social exclusion, preferably as close to the elite as possible.
This is how you are never wrong, and your opponents are never right.
But there is a condition to this.
This is how you are never wrong, and your opponents are never right.
But there is a condition to this.
The condition of using this technique successfully is for you to be perceived as having high status.
You can't convince people that your ideas are associated with high status if you are not perceived as such.
You crucially need to create that halo effect.
You can't convince people that your ideas are associated with high status if you are not perceived as such.
You crucially need to create that halo effect.
The second condition for this to work is that your audience perceives itself as people of high status.
Status answers to different vehicles depending on the setting.
Diplomas in academia.
Palmares in sports.
Titles in the military and corporations.
Money in everything else.
Status answers to different vehicles depending on the setting.
Diplomas in academia.
Palmares in sports.
Titles in the military and corporations.
Money in everything else.
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