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How to deal with a manipulative person without arguing
You cannot win an argument with someone who is not having one. Five moves that end the exchange without raising your voice, and the one that ends most conversations on its own.
How to shut down gossip without becoming the difficult one
There is a moment in every gossip conversation where you become part of it, and it is earlier than you think. Five ways out that do not involve lecturing anybody.
How to read someone quickly: five signals that are hard to fake
You can learn more about someone in five minutes than in five conversations, but only if you are watching the right things. Five signals nobody thinks to manage.
Seven habits that make you hard to manipulate
The people who are hardest to manipulate are rarely the guarded ones. Seven small habits that make the usual approaches stop working, none of which require you to be suspicious of anyone.
Five sentences that end a manipulative conversation
Short, complete, and deliberately unremarkable. Five sentences that close an exchange without an argument, without raising your voice, and without giving anyone a story about how you overreacted.
Why confident, capable people get targeted
The people who get worked on hardest are usually not the fragile ones. Six reasons it keeps happening to people who are nobody's idea of a pushover.
How guilt-tripping works, and the one question that stops it
Guilt-tripping only works while the request stays blurry. The two components it needs, and the boring question that is almost impossible to answer if guilt was doing the work.
Nine manipulation tactics too small to complain about
The tactics that work do so precisely because they are too small to object to. Nine of them, with a specific block for each, most of which is a single sentence.
What to say when someone tries to provoke you
Seven things people who stay calm do in the two seconds after a jab lands, including the exact sentences, and the one to practise first.