Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova) shows us how we can defend ourselves against would-be con artists and use the same principles for more benign purposes in her new book The Confidence Game.
The Cheat Sheet:- As it turns out, you can fool an honest man. But cynics -- by their own overconfidence in being savvy and "scamproof" -- are just as susceptible to deception.
- Technology and the abundance of information most of us freely surrender to the Internet makes the con artist's job easier than ever before.
- What type of person becomes a con artist?
- How can we avoid getting scammed?
- Understand how belief works, why we over-believe in some things (even when we have no evidence for them), and how this plays into our susceptibility to deception.
- And so much more...
Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/maria-konnikova-the-confidence-game-episode-478/
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