Status Updates From Influence et manipulation

The two signs of unhealthy automatic consistency are:
1. Uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach (intuiton), knowing that you are trapped by your mind
2. Connect to your “heart of hearts”. Ask the question: knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Although consistency is generally good, even vital, There is a foolish rigid variety to be shunned — the tendency to be automatically and unthinkingly consistent.

Internal consistency is a hallmark of logic and intellectual strength. well it’s lack, characterises the intellectually scattered and limited among us

Self image and self perception is essential to sustained long-term commitment

To influence a child’s behaviour, use a reason that will initially produce the desired behaviour and will at the same time allow a child to take personal responsibility for that behaviour.

When people feel they have free, will they’re more willing to make a choice aligned with what you want