Kniha YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS Malor Gielavien

YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS

THE OLDEST TRICKS WE KEEP FALLING FOR

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
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Everyone already knows the old stories. The wooden horse was not a gift. Flattery is bait. A seal ca...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2026
Stránek
298
EAN
9798184254722
Enbook ID
53017192
Hmotnost
403
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 16

Kompletní popis

Everyone already knows the old stories. The wooden horse was not a gift. Flattery is bait. A seal can be forged. The weak sometimes only look weak. The unbeatable usually have one quiet place where they end. We learn these lessons early and then file them where they can do no further harm and no further good: under myth, under fable, under the reading we were assigned as children.
We keep falling for the oldest tricks not because we forget them, but because we were taught the story and not the trick. The danger returns in a costume we were never trained to recognize - a letter from the bank, a cleared shipment, an official seal, a sanctions list, a confident voice, a small blue checkmark - and stops resembling anything we know.
Reading the present the way medieval teachers read likeness - by function, not by face, and with help from Vladimir Propp and the old craft of worked comparisons - Gielavien assembles a short field guide to recognition. The test was never whether you know the lesson when it is printed and titled. The test is whether you know it without the caption.
History does not make us wise. It only takes away our alibi.

Keywords: deception, persuasion, pattern recognition, cognitive bias, history of ideas, folklore, manipulation