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4 Useful Psychology Tricks You Can Use To Your Advantage

Lukas Schwekendiek
5 min readApr 20, 2021

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1. If you want others to open up to you or like you, make them the most important thing in the world. In Psychology this is referred to as “Active Listening”. All you need to do is give your entire attention to some when they talk.

There are various ways you can easily implement this:

  • Imagine that you have to give an hour long presentation on what they talked about the next day.
  • Act like they have something to share that will be worth a million dollars.
  • Listen like you would if you were talking to your hero or heroine.

Doing so will make sure you pay full attention to what they say. The difference is minute in your eyes, but the subconscious effect it has is massive!

People will feel it and will love to talk to you, because you make them feel like they matter. Which is one of the most sought after feelings in the world.

Try going an entire day with paying full attention to everyone and get their responses the next day. You will be surprised by the difference it made to them.

2. You see what you think about. Let’s use an example for this. A driver who believes the false stereotype that women are bad drivers will see both bad drivers that are men and women, and good drivers…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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