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Arthur Schopenhauer,A.C.Grayling

The Art of Always Being Right

'Beware who you give this book to.' Financial Times 'I recommend that you keep this delightful essay at your side.' Observer 'Dryly witty essay' Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph We all sit through meetings with that one person who seems to be able to persuade everyone. What is their secret? Are they more gifted than we are? Or is it just that they are very skilled in the art of persuation? That is exactly what it is. They are people who use subtle tricks to convince other people to agree with them. Based on a lifetime of observing opinion-forming by two authors, The Art of Always Being Right shows you the 38 ways that will convince people that you are right. Master them all and success is guaranteed.
56 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
Publisher
Gibson Square
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  • b8453453735has quoted2 years ago
    Our innate vanity, which is particularly sensitive in reference to our intellectual powers, will not allow that our first position was wrong and our adversary’s right
  • b8453453735has quoted2 years ago
    So insistent is the human desire to win that almost as soon as the philosophers of classical Greece began to undertake serious enquiry into the nature of things, so also began the art of rhetoric, which is the technique of winning arguments independently of truth or merit
  • b8453453735has quoted2 years ago
    But the real world is anything but ideal, and in it people strive not to reach truth, but to win arguments

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