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Portugese Surfers
Organized Randomness So the other day I was out riding my bike, and I took a wrong turn. I was in my old neighborhood, but it had been a while, so I was busy kind of looking around and not really...
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How To Learn Anything
Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? The other night, I decided to go out for a walk. I recently moved to new part of town, and decided to go and check things out. The sun has been setting later and later...
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The Secret Behind Human Intelligence
Captain, That Is Illogical Here’s an interesting mind experiment. Ready? Here is the situation; you have four cards, with the following faces showing. D, 7, 3, F. You are told that each card has a...
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The Hidden Secret Of Knowledge
Can You Repeat That Please? I remember once I played a game with a group of highly educated, professional ESL students I was teaching. I’ve heard this game called “Chinese whispers,” or the “telephone...
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Beware Of Ancient Fears Infecting Modern Language
Pistols At Dawn I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and I noticed something interesting about her speech. She had always spoken like that, but I hadn’t talked to her in quite a while. Last...
View ArticleCovert Persuasion: Presuppositions – Generic Noun Phrases
Leading Experts Agree This article is part three in a series on using presuppositions to covert persuasion and influence. Presuppositions are one of the most powerful yet least known about methods of...
View ArticleCovert Persuasion With Presuppositions – The Pseudo Cleft Sentence
What’s amazing is how powerful these patterns are This is another article in a series on how you can use linguistic presuppositions to easily and naturally persuade others to your way of thinking....
View ArticleCovert Persuasion with Presuppositions – Stressed Words and Phrases
The AMAZING power of presuppositions This is another article in a series on linguistic presuppositions, those powerful language patterns that can easily give you the persuasive power of a Jedi Knight....
View ArticleCovet Persuasion With Presuppositions – Comparative As
Do You Know Anything As Powerful As Presuppositions? Here we go with another article on linguistic presuppositions, the powerful language patterns that you can use to easily, naturally, and covertly...
View ArticleConversational Persuasion With Presuppositions – The Spurious Not
Are You Not Aware Of The Massive Flexibility Of Presuppositions? This is an article in a series on linguistic presuppositions, those powerfully effective language patterns that you can use...
View ArticleHow Many Levels Is Your Communication?
The Depth Of Perception I was riding my bike downtown yesterday when I bumped into a friend. Not quite a friend, but an acquaintance. Some people have hundreds of people that they could consider...
View ArticleOne World, One Culture, One People?
We’re the Same, You And Me Recently I’ve been reading this fascinating book by Steven Pinker, called “The Language Instinct.” If you are at all interested in language, psychology, or how the human...
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Pure Randomness I used to have this neighbor that was quite eccentric. She had all these different hats that she would wear for all different kinds of occasions. I don’t think I ever saw her wear the...
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Beware Of Equality So the other day I was waiting in line at the movies, which was surprising. Not that I was at the movies, but that I was waiting in line. I don’t particularly like crowded movie...
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Love The Plateau
The Juggler I had this friend once that was really into juggling. He wasn’t that good, but for some reason he had always wanted to become a really good juggler. The kind of guy that would be able to...
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