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That Big Orange Ball of Provocation, Donald Trump, is Actually a MASTER Influencer, with Weapons-Grade Persuasion Skills
I’ve got a book recommendation for you that’s perfectly suited to stretch your thinking, because it’s almost certain that you’ll disagree with large parts of it. Beautiful!
Win Bigly is a study of persuasion and influence examined through the lens of the 2016 American presidential election, where, according to Scott Adams, a certain Donald Trump put on a masterclass of persuasion.
See? I told you it would be controversial.
But even though Adams once described Trump as “an orange ball of provocation,” he also wrote:
“This book was not designed to change your mind about politics or about Trump. All I want to do is teach some things about persuasion.”
Whether we believe him or not — he does claim to be a “trained hypnotist,” whatever that means — this book itself is also a masterclass in persuasion.
It describes in detail some of the persuasion strategies that Trump employed during his successful campaign and contrasts them with the middling efforts of Hilary Clinton that always seemed to come up short.
Alright, so who is Scott Adams? He is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip (I know, I know…
