Margin of Safety Oct 22, 2026 Compounding Oct 8, 2026 Second-Order Thinking Sep 24, 2026 Incentives Sep 10, 2026 Inversion Aug 27, 2026 Charlie Munger's 25 Cognitive Biases Jan 15, 2025 Feedback Loops Sep 9, 2024 Market Awareness Jun 24, 2024 Hanlon's Razor May 1, 2024 Circle of Competence Mar 11, 2024 Occam's Razor Jan 20, 2024 Creating a Monopoly Nov 2, 2023 Simplicity is Simply Important Aug 14, 2023 Margin of Safety Oct 22, 2026 Compounding Oct 8, 2026 Second-Order Thinking Sep 24, 2026 Incentives Sep 10, 2026 Inversion Aug 27, 2026 Charlie Munger's 25 Cognitive Biases Jan 15, 2025 Feedback Loops Sep 9, 2024 Market Awareness Jun 24, 2024 Hanlon's Razor May 1, 2024 Circle of Competence Mar 11, 2024 Occam's Razor Jan 20, 2024 Creating a Monopoly Nov 2, 2023 Simplicity is Simply Important Aug 14, 2023 Margin of Safety Oct 22, 2026 Compounding Oct 8, 2026 Second-Order Thinking Sep 24, 2026 Incentives Sep 10, 2026 Inversion Aug 27, 2026 Charlie Munger's 25 Cognitive Biases Jan 15, 2025 Feedback Loops Sep 9, 2024 Market Awareness Jun 24, 2024 Hanlon's Razor May 1, 2024 Circle of Competence Mar 11, 2024 Occam's Razor Jan 20, 2024 Creating a Monopoly Nov 2, 2023 Simplicity is Simply Important Aug 14, 2023 Margin of Safety Oct 22, 2026 Compounding Oct 8, 2026 Second-Order Thinking Sep 24, 2026 Incentives Sep 10, 2026 Inversion Aug 27, 2026 Charlie Munger's 25 Cognitive Biases Jan 15, 2025 Feedback Loops Sep 9, 2024 Market Awareness Jun 24, 2024 Hanlon's Razor May 1, 2024 Circle of Competence Mar 11, 2024 Occam's Razor Jan 20, 2024 Creating a Monopoly Nov 2, 2023 Simplicity is Simply Important Aug 14, 2023
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

The six levers of persuasion, and why they work on people who know better.

Robert B. Cialdini · 1984

Cialdini spent three years inside sales, fundraising, and advertising operations and came out with six principles that reliably move people to say yes: reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity.

Munger credits the book for putting a structure on things he had only seen work in practice, and cites it directly in the psychology-of-misjudgment talk. Several models on this site — Reciprocity among them — trace back to it.

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