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The book talks about Victor Lustig, a con artist, who was famous for selling the Eiffel Tower, and lists the Ten Commandments of Con Artists. One of the commandments is that a con artist is not a good talker but a good listener. Maria, the guest of the podcast, thought that this was applicable to debates, as listening to the other person is how you can get them and trick them.
And he wrote something called The Ten Commandments of Con Artists.
— Episode: Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnik...
Episode: Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnikova
The book talks about Victor Lustig, a con artist, who was famous for selling the Eiffel Tower, and lists the Ten Commandments of Con Artists. One of the commandments is that a con artist is not a good talker but a good listener. Maria, the guest of the podcast, thought that this was applicable to debates, as listening to the other person is how you can get them and trick them.
And he wrote something called The Ten Commandments of Con Artists.
And one of those commandments is something that just came to mind immediately, which is that a con artist isn't a good talker, a con artist is a good listener.
Listening to the other person is how you get them and is how you trick them, is how you take advantage of them.
And so it actually, that's what came to mind when I was listening to this debate.
And I thought, wait, a debate is a con in a lot of ways.