102: Chase Hughes | Why Authority Is More Influential Than Skill
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Chase Hughes (@thechasehughes) is the top behavior profiler in the United States and author of The Ellipsis Manual: Analysis and Engineering of Human Behavior.
What We Discuss with Chase Hughes:- Why authority is a weightier force for influence than any social skill in the book.
- What you can do to bolster your own authority -- and resist manipulation by the authority of others.
- The five factors that measure your ability to persuade and influence on a level that surpasses mere inspiration.
- Why your patterns of behavior that happen even when no one is looking can make or break your life's outcomes.
- Top authority killers and how to avoid them.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason de |
| 0:04.6 | Philipo. Today we're talking with my good friend Chase Hughes. He is the author of the number |
| 0:09.8 | one bestselling book on behavior and influence the ellipsis manual. The elite units and |
| 0:15.1 | companies he works with rely heavily on his expertise and research into persuasion, |
| 0:20.1 | influence human behavior. We work together on some stuff. I'm going to have to leave it |
| 0:24.1 | there for now, but you've heard from Chase before from us. He's really innovating in this |
| 0:28.5 | area, which not many people are doing. That's what makes it so fascinating. He just crushed it |
| 0:35.0 | whenever, when this guy presents people, listen, he's been in the military doing this and now he's |
| 0:39.6 | entering the civilian world. Well, one foot and one foot out, we might say. Today we'll discover |
| 0:44.4 | why authority matters more than influence and how we can create authority, whether that |
| 0:49.4 | be for a job interview, dating, relationships, leading a team. We'll also learn why with |
| 0:54.6 | so many companies and websites selling external tactics and techniques, your behavior while |
| 0:59.6 | no one is looking can make or break what outcomes you have in life and will explore how we |
| 1:05.3 | unconsciously scan for authority figures all day long and how we can use a few simple |
| 1:10.1 | behavioral changes to leverage this. Of course, we'll also uncover some top authority killers |
| 1:15.7 | and how we can avoid them as well. There's so much in this episode. Of course, we've got |
| 1:19.8 | worksheets for today's episode. So you can make sure you solidify everything we're |
| 1:23.6 | talking about here with Chase. That link is in the show notes at JordanHarbinger.com |
| 1:28.8 | slash podcast. And if you want to know how I meet and manage to book all these great |
| 1:32.8 | people and manage my relationships with these people using systems and tiny habits instead |
| 1:37.4 | of just spending hours and hours a day on the phone, check out our level one course, which |
| 1:42.6 | is free over at advancedhumandynamics.com slash level one. That's advancedhumandynamics.com |
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