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View submission: How to guard yourself against manipulation?
Learning formal critical thinking skills, like there are books about, is a great way to counter manipulation. For instance, advertising uses many types of lying arguments to trick people. If you can identify them, they don't work.
Another skill is figuring out the logic of events and being able to predict the future based on the probable outcomes based on the logic of current events.
Recently, my friend's daughter contacted me on facebook and told me I could make 1500 via cashapp but she needed some info from me. She is from a place where a lot of slang is used. She was not using it when typing. She wasn't responding to various references I was making. Also, I didn't believe she would know some scam and her nickname for me is Superman because I'm a noble person so she would know not the come to me with illegal activity. So, I knew it wasn't her.
If people come to you with an idea you have to know who they are and the outcome of the proposition must in all logical likelihood have positive outcomes.
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