558: Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part Two.
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jack Schafer (@jackschafer) is a retired FBI special agent, current assistant professor at Western Illinois University, and co-author of The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Catch up with part one here!]
What We Discuss with Jack Schafer:- How undercover cops get made just by the way they look at people.
- The spotlight effect: why we all overestimate how much other people notice about us, and how we can use this to our advantage when trying to spot a lie (or not get caught in a lie ourselves).
- What Jack has to gain by making minor mistakes deliberately when he's teaching a class.
- What people are really telling us when they're angry, and how we can stealthily defuse them before they go off.
- If you make people feel good about themselves, they will seek to be around you to get those feelings again.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:03.0 | Basically what it does is I'll make an innocuous mistake. |
| 0:07.1 | I'll mispronounce the name, deliberately, a malaprop, |
| 0:11.0 | just say something that's a little off to students will inevitably because there's a |
| 0:15.5 | pre-disposition to correct others so they will correct me the first thing it |
| 0:21.4 | does it makes me human doesn't hurt my credibility, but it makes me human. People like when people are human when they're presenting to them. |
| 0:30.0 | And the other thing it does is that if I made one or two mistakes early in the lecture, |
| 0:37.0 | then the students are more likely to contribute without the fear of being wrong, |
| 0:42.0 | because I've already been wrong so it gives them a |
| 0:46.8 | comfort zone to be wrong so they contribute more. secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
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| 1:44.5 | Today, part two with Dr. Jack Schaefer. |
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