• GrymEdm@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago
    • Being able to choose to be so good at talking to people that you have a significant chance of bringing them around to your point of view when you try.
    • FateOfTheCrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      IRL, the trick is to only bother if you know they’re very open-minded or are part of a tight-knit open-minded community. But that would usually mean you’d have to find a solution to the “making close friends as an adult” part too.

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        10 months ago

        Nah, the trick is being good at manipulation to the point people don’t even consider the fact you’re gaslighting them, they actually think you’re helping them. Granted, it takes a certain amount of natural charisma to pull this off but it works.

        Source - just some guy I know who is really awesome and totally has his shit together for real. Believe me, he told me.