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Don’t sound weak. Use negations (ariyh.com)
9 points by tdmckinlay on Aug 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


JFC that website makes me want to pluck out my own eyeballs.


WTF was this written by an AI?


I learned in linguistics that brains can't think in negations and at first understand the unnegated and then negate it. Popular example: "Don't think of a pink elephant." And you'll think of a pink elephant...


You don't even need to use words. A car that runs off a road into a field has a higher than random chance of hitting the only tree in the field.


> The effect is stronger for people that have a high need for status (e.g. buyers of luxury products or people in high power distance cultures such as China, Egypt, Brazil, and India).




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