Either you realize it or not, want it or not, your mind is being manipulated and controlled by others each and every moment of your life. In fact, your mind is being controlled by me at this very moment. Wanted proof? You are still reading the text, aren’t you?
Even though I tried my best to come up with the best title for this post, it could still b
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somehow misleading. So, before we go any further, let me set the limit
to our discussion. No, we will not talk about voodoo-ish kind of mind
manipulating. Maybe more like science-based psycological-ish kind. Not
to the hardcore level of brainwashing, but simple tricks people use
every day to their peers or even their larger environment – mass mind
manipulation.
You see, human mind is full of loopholes. There are lots of scientific experiments conducted to proof this. One of them is Solomon Asch experiment in 1957. People who know and understand about this can (and surely will) take advantage of their knowledge, while the unknown are sitting ducks – ready and able to follow every ‘command’ given to them. From a simple ‘do this’ to the level of ‘kill them’. Some for the ‘good cause’ (or at least that is what the do-ers believe), some for ‘other causes’.
I have demonstrated one of the mind control tricks clearly from the very beginning. If you are reading this far, then the trick works. They say curiosity kills the cat, but this time it keeps you reading. Mind can be
control by other by showing different movements, talking, showing symbols etc. A person (first person) can control another person to art a human sketch based on the first person’s wish, though this first person will not interrupt during the sketch or tell him/her anything about the sketch. A person (first person) can control one’s mind to shoot on a specific director that the first person thought. Those can be possible …
Emotion is the easiest pick. Make people (believe they would be) very happy and they would do anything for you. Make them feel guilty and they would do anything for you. You can also use fear – fear of losing or fear of not getting something they want – to achieve the same goal.
Everybody have their own authoritative figures: parents, kings, ugly boss who always shouts, religious leaders, celebrities, cool guy on the basketball team, society, gods, prophets, Bill Gates… You can use people’s obedience to authoritative figures to make them taking – or not taking – some actions. No matter how absurd it is. Something like, “Build the pyramid!”, or “Finish this 3 thousand pages report by tomorrow morning, you @#$%^&*!!”, or “Love thy enemy.”, or “Don’t hang out with them. Those geeks will have a successful life.”, or “Everybody else use this bloated – resource hogging – virus friendly OS, so you should too!” (No offense. Peace, Bro!)
If there’s any field where human mind is most manipulated – in the largest scale, it would be marketing. Those sleazy marketers are using every tricks they know to sell you something everything anything and dried up your wallet. But the good news is, the mind controlling/manipulating process will have less effect if the person being manipulated knows it. So the best way to protect you against mind manipulation effort is by learning more about it.
All in all, knowing mind control tricks is not always about bad things. Besides learning how to protect yourself and your loved ones, you could use the tricks to do good things: create a better world, improve wealth, building a saver environment, campaign the global cooling, made your kids eats vegetables. (Notice how I use authoritative figure to do persuade you do good things).
You see, human mind is full of loopholes. There are lots of scientific experiments conducted to proof this. One of them is Solomon Asch experiment in 1957. People who know and understand about this can (and surely will) take advantage of their knowledge, while the unknown are sitting ducks – ready and able to follow every ‘command’ given to them. From a simple ‘do this’ to the level of ‘kill them’. Some for the ‘good cause’ (or at least that is what the do-ers believe), some for ‘other causes’.
I have demonstrated one of the mind control tricks clearly from the very beginning. If you are reading this far, then the trick works. They say curiosity kills the cat, but this time it keeps you reading. Mind can be
control by other by showing different movements, talking, showing symbols etc. A person (first person) can control another person to art a human sketch based on the first person’s wish, though this first person will not interrupt during the sketch or tell him/her anything about the sketch. A person (first person) can control one’s mind to shoot on a specific director that the first person thought. Those can be possible …
Emotion is the easiest pick. Make people (believe they would be) very happy and they would do anything for you. Make them feel guilty and they would do anything for you. You can also use fear – fear of losing or fear of not getting something they want – to achieve the same goal.
Everybody have their own authoritative figures: parents, kings, ugly boss who always shouts, religious leaders, celebrities, cool guy on the basketball team, society, gods, prophets, Bill Gates… You can use people’s obedience to authoritative figures to make them taking – or not taking – some actions. No matter how absurd it is. Something like, “Build the pyramid!”, or “Finish this 3 thousand pages report by tomorrow morning, you @#$%^&*!!”, or “Love thy enemy.”, or “Don’t hang out with them. Those geeks will have a successful life.”, or “Everybody else use this bloated – resource hogging – virus friendly OS, so you should too!” (No offense. Peace, Bro!)
If there’s any field where human mind is most manipulated – in the largest scale, it would be marketing. Those sleazy marketers are using every tricks they know to sell you something everything anything and dried up your wallet. But the good news is, the mind controlling/manipulating process will have less effect if the person being manipulated knows it. So the best way to protect you against mind manipulation effort is by learning more about it.
All in all, knowing mind control tricks is not always about bad things. Besides learning how to protect yourself and your loved ones, you could use the tricks to do good things: create a better world, improve wealth, building a saver environment, campaign the global cooling, made your kids eats vegetables. (Notice how I use authoritative figure to do persuade you do good things).
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