Дмитрий Коренев

Where does any speech, flirtation, conversation or suggestion begin? It begins when the other person - the manager, the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the audience, the man - finds out that you exist and focuses their attention on you. It sounds obvious, but there is no point talking to a hall that is staring at its smartphones out of boredom. How do you get someone's attention?

Trolling online, mobbing at work, bullying at school - these are forms of harassment, of psychological violence, expressions of deliberate verbal aggression directed at us. Harassment has many names and one and the same essence.

How do you win an argument? It is worth remembering that proving your point head-on provokes resistance, and that there are almost invisible ways of nudging a person towards what you need. The ones described in the article "How do you get someone to act, without proving anything? Through the control of concepts!", for instance. But covert persuasion takes time, a latent period, until the suggestion surfaces in the other person's head as their own)

You have surely met people like this - clever, well educated, great-looking, fairly young, most often without a family and without a steady job. And the question always comes up. Why? Can this person really not find work? Why can’t they start a family?