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    I’ve studied Psychology, Neuroscience and Human Behavior for 10+ Years. AMA.

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    You know it's amazing how much we've learned about the brain, and how much we are still learning now... and how the stuff we're trying to explain... things like consciousness, feelings, experiences, free will... is ancient, pre-modern stuff. It's like expecting our best current physics to...
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    What's the difference between Slackers and Go Getters? The answer may have to do w/ brain chemistry.

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    Neuroscience also relies on psychological concepts to form its theories and make its explanations of high-level human behaviors. There is no "behavior" or "go-getting" in the brain or its parts. That requires neuroscientists who theorize about action or consciousness or motivation to...
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    Building and monetizing an email list

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    Watching this one! Good luck moving forward.
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    Is your customer service working for your competitor? If you're making this mistake...

    It's a good question. I like @Walter Hay 's suggestion. I've been on the (wrong side) of the mystery shopper when I worked in retail as a shifty college student many years ago. If nothing else you'll see who is and isn't trying. Dan Kennedy recommends the pitiless use of surveillance cameras...
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    Tony Robbins Fans? Unleash the Power?

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    It's interesting to read this thread because in the skeptical posters I see so much of myself 10 or even 5 years ago. A switch flipped in me a couple of years ago and instead of outright condemning everything as charlatanry, I decided to give everything a fair shake. To see for myself before...
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    Is your customer service working for your competitor? If you're making this mistake...

    ...then you can probably say "yes". Earlier today I had two remarkable customer service experiences. One of them isn't the kind of remarkable you want to brag to your friends about. The other one, it was just about perfect. Like night and day, all in the space of about 10 minutes. Let's back...
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    How deep does this "FAKE GURU" market actually go?

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    Watching the guru threads go on around here is like listening to Art Bell at 2am
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    How to learn to sell?

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    Seconding this. Most of my jobs when I was younger involved retail or low-key B2B selling. Back then I hated it and thought I sucked at it (and I probably did suck at it). You know what they say about practice and failing and all that. If you've never closed a deal face to face or over the...
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    What's the difference between Slackers and Go Getters? The answer may have to do w/ brain chemistry.

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    Yeah. There are three takeaway lessons from this kind of reporting: 1. It is pop-science reporting, which means it is inevitably wrong or misleading, and drawing conclusions from it puts you further down the path of wrong. The Gell-Mann effect is real, folks. 2. The replication crisis that...
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    Are we living in an advanced simulation?

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    Berkeley is the better option for an IV-drip of pure unrefined Idealism. Spinoza is harder to nail down on this (he is arguably not affirming either idealism or materialism in the ordinary meaning) and he's not nearly as accessible to a lay reader. I'm not sure what you mean by "way to true...
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    Are we living in an advanced simulation?

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    Honestly I think that most of you reading this, if you're actually interested in the ideas, would do better to read the original philosophers and scientists on this topic instead of speculating about whatever cutting-edge stuff is getting play on Youtube this week. There are whole lifetimes...
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    Author spent 5 years interviewing 177 selfmade millionaires to find their secrets. Findings inside.

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    Oh I wasn't meaning to say I got into it as detailed as @Real Deal Denver does. My planning is only about as granular as the weekly level, and I keep a rolling list of 3-5 main action items on a daily basis. As long as the highlights get checked off I'm happy. I guess that's a kind of a daily...
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    Amazing secrets?! Desperate Nerds?! Does this shit actually work? I’d never buy from these guys.

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    Well, that's part of it. The marketplace has gotten more savvy to this stuff since Halbert was writing -- remember that most of these ads predate the internet, some of them by decades. The other thing to keep in mind is that direct response ads are aiming at a particular audience. You aren't...
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    Amazing secrets?! Desperate Nerds?! Does this shit actually work? I’d never buy from these guys.

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    A Fortune 500 company will have deeper pockets and a recognizable product compared to most startups and solo entrepreneurs, for one thing. Direct marketing is a way of helping to reach the people you want to reach and keep your attention on the positive ROI of your ad dollars. Branding ads and...
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    Author spent 5 years interviewing 177 selfmade millionaires to find their secrets. Findings inside.

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    I've only started doing this in the last 2 months. It seems like a small thing but holy hell at the difference it makes. It is one of those things where you trust the process, see it working, and think to yourself, "boy, I was pretty stupid for not trying this out in the past when all these...
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    FU Money by Dan Lok, must be MJ's twin brother

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    John Carlton is an underappreciated gem. He and Halbert (whose still free website can teach you more than most current marketing gurus, because most all of them are cribbing off him) are still the real rainmakers. Cashvertising is a good book because it compacts a lot of information in one...
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    Fiance is calling my business "his/our" business, threatening to sue me

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    This is great advice. I am routinely floored by how often people fall for obviously manipulative and abusive people, and it's been a life-long interest of mine as to why and how this kind of dynamic comes up between people. It isn't just in romantic relationships either. People in general (at...
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    Are we living in an advanced simulation?

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    You're right in the spirit, and I agree with you though I try to be more charitable about the argument itself. It isn't science or even a scientific argument, since it isn't a result of observation (how you'd observe this I have no idea) or a part of any scientific theory. The simulation...
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    Redesign of a Ferrari product page. My first time writing Ad copy. I impressed myself. Thoughts?

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    Benefits are always there in an ad, otherwise it's just pretty pictures. Nothing against art, but it isn't selling your product. Benefit isn't "this cool widget does XYZ" Benefit is "if you buy this cool widget, your wife will love you again" or "you won't feel like such a loser" or "you'll...
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    Redesign of a Ferrari product page. My first time writing Ad copy. I impressed myself. Thoughts?

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    It's a pretty piece of design. Does it sell?

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