012 - Trump, Persuasion and Hypnosis

In episode 012 of the podcast I take up the question that Scott Adams has framed for us: is Donald Trump some kind of "master persuader" who uses persuasion techniques familiar to anyone trained in hypnosis? And is this the reason why he won the election?
In this episode:
- A plug to help me build the Argument Ninja Academy
- Scott Adams on Donald Trump: Master Persuader
- "Pacing and leading", Milton Erickson and hypnosis
- Confusion and hypnotic suggestibility
- Confusion and self-defense
- Confusion and the "Chewbacca Defense"
- Derren Brown: how to steal with hypnosis
- Hypnosis stage acts and the spectrum of hypnotizability
- Why Scott Adams was confident that Trump would win
- Is Trump a master persuader?
- Thinking critically about persuasion schools and persuasion science
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