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ental retardation. Do you remember I talked about that yesterday? And I said to myself is that an Iranian word? Because that word is not allowed in this country. You're not supposed to say the r-word. And in fact the only reason I would say it is because a head of state allegedly said it. When I'm repeating it I wouldn't use that word. I agree it's not a word to use in public. I didn't used to thi…
← Previous segment →true it doesn't matter what reason you give. And since this is a region that is sort of trapped in history, they're sort of locked into little mental prisons because of things that happened in the past, a reference to history is more powerful over there because they really care about history more than we would here. And so he mentions history and he says here's my reason why it can happen again because it happened before. That's not a reason. It isn't. Do you know what was different before? Well there wasn't any Israel. That's pretty different. You know how different can you get? There wasn't ISIS. There wasn't al-Qaeda. There wasn't Iran sponsoring trouble. I mean nothing's the same. It is not a reason that because it used to be true therefore there's a good reason that it could
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be true in the future. But it sure works. It works very, very, very solid technique. You're actually seeing what I'm going to show you is some of the best persuasion technique you've ever seen in a little package. The other thing that Jared does which you would completely miss if you didn't study persuasion is that he does a trick that doesn't really have a name but the idea is that if you tell…
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