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The art of making your idea feel like their idea all along.
means The act of cleverly handling people, situations, or objects to steer them toward a result you want — sometimes innocently skillful, often quietly underhanded.
from From Latin 'manipulus,' a handful — literally 'a hand-full,' from 'manus' (hand) plus a root tied to 'plere' (to fill). It first described physical handling, the way pharmacists and craftsmen worked things by hand; only later did it slide into the figurative sense of working people the way one works clay. The same 'manus' gives us 'manual,' 'manufacture,' and 'manage' — a whole family of words about getting things done with the hands, before this one learned to do it behind your back.
- word origin
- From Latin for handful, literally working by hand
- foot in door
- Tiny first request makes huge ones feel reasonable
- sunk cost
- People stay loyal to what already cost them
- mirroring
- Copying posture and speech builds instant fake rapport
- scarcity trick
- Limited supply makes brains want things harder
operation mockingbird — cia program that manipulated major us media outlets from 1950s-1970s
tuskegee syphilis study — us public health service withheld treatment from 399 black men for 40 years starting 1932