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61 frameworks

Influence6 steps

The Opinion-as-Norm Campaign Lens

Decode opinions as bids to reward allies and lower rivals' status

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Luck Surface Area

Create more motion and contribution so useful chance has more places to land

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Make It Easy

Change behavior by removing friction, not by adding motivation

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Getting to 'That's Right'

Summarize the other side's view until they say 'that's right'

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The Absence-Presence Dynamic

Alternate scarcity and visibility so people crave your presence

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The Fresh Start Effect

Time your ask to the moments people feel like a new person

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Key Person of Influence

Make the founder the visible face who pitches, publishes, and builds the product ecosystem

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Pre-Frame, Reframe, Deframe

Set the meaning of an experience before it happens, because prevention beats correction

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The Four Ways to Say No

Say no with escalating firmness so no one gets punched in the face

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The Noticeable Difference Flywheel

Make each opportunity visibly different so one crowd recruits the next

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The 'But You Are Free' Principle

Remind people they can say no and, paradoxically, more of them say yes

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The FEAR Brainwashing Process

The four-stage focus-emotion-agitation-repetition cycle that drives real brainwashing

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The Foot-in-the-Door Technique

Win a tiny yes first, then the big ask rides on their need to stay consistent

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The Four Hooks of Behavioral Addiction

Spot the four design hooks that make technology irresistible

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The Illusion of Control

Offer even a meaningless choice to make people value the outcome

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The Influence Strategy (Influence MOT)

Build a personal brand on purpose with a six-step influence build-out

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The Three Routes to Status: Dominance, Virtue, Success

Diagnose how any group awards status and play the sustainable route

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The Trust Battery

Treat every relationship as a battery that each interaction charges or drains

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Two-Tier Mentorship

Study your idols from afar and aim your real asks two levels lower

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Status, Desire and Fun

Deliver all three of what women want, or you're not a romantic option

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The Messenger Effect

Who delivers the message can matter as much as the message itself

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Answering the Bid

Relationships live or die on small daily bids for attention, not grand gestures

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Loss-Frame Messaging

Frame the same number as a loss avoided, not a gain won

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Respond to an Insult With Silence

Let the ugly words fall, then ask them to say it again

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The Three-Part Flirting Framework

Diagnose flirting failures as interest, standards, or sexual tension

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Market Yourself Authentically (Product plus Marketing)

Build a life worth wanting, then learn to talk about it so women can see it

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Resistance-Reducing Verb Choice

Swap the loaded verb for the traction verb to move a resistant person forward

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The Attraction Equation

Break lasting attraction into four buildable components you can actually work on

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The Five Types of Charisma

Pick the charisma style that fits you instead of faking one that doesn't

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Win the Mind, Not the Body

Change what they want instead of forcing what they do

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Credibility by Association

Borrow the trust of someone who already has profile by being seen alongside them

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Leaps of Faith

Trust first on purpose — social risk-taking is how you win at connection

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Reputation Is the Cornerstone of Power

Build one consistent reputation, guard credibility, exploit rivals' inconsistencies

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Use Absence to Increase Respect

Withdraw strategically to create scarcity, mystery and renewed demand for your presence

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Copy-Flatter-Conform

The instinctive strategy humans use to rise toward high-status people

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Cunningham's Law

To get the right answer online, post the wrong answer instead of a question

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Make Yourself Easy to Interface With

Build a body of work and give relentlessly so top people seek you out

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Mimetic Status Inversion

Change behaviour by flipping what counts as high status, not by moralising

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Reframe the Incentive as a Reward

Same price, different story — lead with the discount, never the surcharge

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The Intentional Misstatement

Elicit facts without asking a single question by stating something wrong on purpose

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The PCP Formula (Perception, Context, Permission)

Change what someone perceives, then the context, and the behavior becomes automatic

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The Polarize-and-Volume Dating Strategy

Lean into an extreme version of yourself, then ask out far more people than feels comfortable

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Sexual Escalation by Drip-Feed

Lace attraction triggers through the whole interaction, not a late switch

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The Four Charming Qualities

Make a man want to give by leading with charm, not take-energy

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Three Kinds of Reward

Toggle between reward, judicious punishment, and a dangled future reward to motivate people well

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Asymmetry Targeting

Find the 5% doing 90% of the work and put every resource there

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First-Weeks Precedent Setting

Set the standard sky-high in a relationship's opening weeks so it holds for the long run

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Make Your Signal Look Like a Cue

Win status by hiding that you want it — turn signals into unintended cues

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One Chapter Ahead

Coach the person you were a year ago and you're the expert

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The Eight Mile Approach

Disarm your opponent by surfacing your own weaknesses before they can

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The Hendersonian News Cycle

Spot the four-stage arc every narrative uses to deny, then reverse, a problem

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Good Guy vs Nice Guy Polarity

Blend opposite traits so you're not one-dimensional

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Shift Culture Through Story, Not Just Academia

Make an abstract risk mainstream by embedding it in vivid fiction

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The 5-to-7 Interaction Reset

Change a stuck relationship pattern by changing your own move and holding it for five to seven exchanges.

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The Charlatan Playbook

How grifters colonise any field that is gatekept, hard to understand, and full of desperate need.

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Authentic Creator Differentiation

Stand out in a saturated feed by picking a lever and being radically yourself

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Strategic Venting

Damage a rival's reputation without damaging your own

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Play The Game To Earn The Message

Satisfy the platform's rules first, then spend the attention you earn on what matters.

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The Costly Signal Test

Judge whether a belief is genuine by what it actually costs the person holding it

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The Domain of Competence

Win attention by displaying high value in a game everyone can score

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Call Out the Elephant

Name your youth first, then state your worth and demand equal respect

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