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Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

Today's episode requires a little bit of explanation, I think.

I'm working on a series about Adolf Hitler.

Perhaps you've heard of him.

Austrian fellow.

I'm sorry, it's been taking a long time.

I just want to do a lot of research, cover all the angles. And one of the interesting things about Hitler is that he was so limited in so many ways. He wasn't necessarily a great strategist. He was quite lazy. He was smart, but he wasn't brilliant. And one biography points out that he was so limited in so many ways and that the one thing that he was truly exceptional at

indisputably was his ability to speak to a crowd he was an unbelievable public speaker that's how he

came to power the biography says that he quote literally spoke his way into power so of course

i wanted to see how he learned to do that in one source that I saw mentioned multiple times is this guy, Gustav Le Bonn, who did

pioneering research on the behavior of crowds.

And apparently Hitler studied his work.

So I went through and read LeBahn's work on crowds.

And I found it really, really interesting as a manual on how to really engage, persuade,

and motivate people in a crowd.

For example, like a big speech to an auditorium or at a protest or political rally or anything

like that, right?

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