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Whether they are Young or Older,
People sometimes have some Problems -
A Trubble shared should be a Trubble halved
And not be a Trubble Doubled !
ALL people have Problems SOME of the time
SOME people have Problems ALL of the time
Everything goes into my Magic Hat
Where it will be SAFE

On another Page here Doc talks about
Groups and Cults,
how easy it can be
to get drawn into something,
and how hard
it can be to get away
from the pressures
or the environment itself
- even IF one is FREE to
Dissing has become a part of life, whether that
means
discounting someone, disrespecting, discrediting,
disregarding, dismissing;
or being rude or unsupportive
More on this HERE
Doc explains about Beliefs or Myths
we may use to help us understand and
get through things.
After all,
No-one has ALL the Answers do they! |
CON-TRICKS,
SCAMS & DECEPTION
BBC TV have been running 'The Real Hustle' in 2009, information at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8mf
If you can watch videos you can see the Top 30 voted
Hustles at www.bbc.co.uk/realhustle/besthustles/
& see YOUTUBE
BOOKS you may find useful are:
'Conned: Scams, Frauds & Swindles' by James Morton &
Hilary Bateson
'The Con Artist Handbook, the Secrets of Hustles & Scams'
by Joel Levy
'The Art of Deception' by Kevin D Mitnick & William L Simon
'More Scams from the Great Beyond' by Peter Huston
'The Art of the Steal' by Frank Abagnale
'The Sting - True Stories of the World's greatest Conmen'
by Nigel Blundell
'The Tourist Trap - when Holiday turns to Nightmare'
by Patrick Blackden
'The Body Language Bible' by Judi James
'The Book of Tells' by Peter Collett
'The Call of the Weird - Travels in American Subcultures'
by Louis Theroux
'The Dilbert Principle' by Scott Adams
'A Mind of its Own - How your Brain Distorts & Deceives'
by Cordelia Fine
'The Psychology of Self-Deception' by Daniel Goleman
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ADVERTISING & INFLUENCE
'Buy-ology' by Martin Lindstrom
'Decoding Advertisements - Ideology & Meaning in Advertising'
by Judith Williamson
'Emotional Design - Why we love (or hate) everyday things'
by Donald A Norman
'Of Cigarettes, High Heels, & Other Interesting Things'
by Marcel Danesi
'Predictably Irrational' by Dan Ariely
'Stack & Sway - the new Science of Jury Consulting'
by Neil J Kressel & Dorit F Kressel
'Techniques of Persuasion' by J.A.C. Brown
'We Know What You Want - How they change your Mind'
by Martin Howard
'The Want Makers' by Eric Clark |
DO OTHER PEOPLE LABEL YOU?
You really can Pick-Your-Own Personality Parts
or Roles rather than have
someone else
project their needs or Labelling onto you –
hoping that you will comply!
See DOC's WARNING LIST on the right
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WARNING !
'The Sociopath Next Door' by Martha Stout
'Without Conscience - the Disturbing World of the
Psychopaths Among us' by Robert D Hare
'Erased - Missing Women, Murdered Wives'
by Marilee Strong |
It's important to REALLY
THINK for YOURSELF!

DON'T GET
DRAWN
INTO
SOMEONE
ELSE'S
WEB !
People have a need to be A PART of what is going
on
around them, other People and so on,
and to keep themselves APART too
And it can lead us into Trouble! |
Remember that some people may genuinely
believe in what
they are telling you
Logical Fallacies - errors of reasoning or argument -
use a Search Engine or www.logicalfallacies.info/
which categorises fallacies of relevance, ambiguity, or presumption
Multiple Intelligences/ Aptitudes
Nidotherapy - changing someone's environment
rather than trying to change them
Ponerology - wickedness or evil
Psychohistory website of Lloyd deMause at www.psychohistory.com - the 'science of historical motivations';
the 'emotional origin of social/political behavior of groups & nations'
'Scapegoating, Abuse & One-upmanship' article HERE
Social Engineering for strategies from the computer environment and used more generally,
to gain information or to manipulate
- often via Social Compliance
See Public Relations, 'Spin', Salesmanship,
Anthropology, Memes - or start from your own interests
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