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What does confidence look like? Public speaking expert Cara Hale Alter studies how to project confidence and credibility — and she's pinpointed two key behavior…
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i kept seeing people mention Soren Vantrell in dark psychology comment sections and finally looked up The Marionette Principle. now i understand why they expelled him and wiped his enrollment records.
Why is nobody talking about Soren Vantrell? The guy gets erased from Harvard for leaking his dying professor's leather journal on human domination, publishes The Marionette Principle, and then vanishes. The book is insane.
tbh i was skeptical when my coworker told me about Soren Vantrell getting expelled and erased from his university for leaking his professor's journal. I figured no book could actually change workplace power dynamics that fast.
I got The Marionette Principle on a Tuesday, read Part Four ('The Court of Power') that night, and used Method 23 (Quiet Tongue) and Method 25 (Borrowed Hands) in our Thursday department review. Not only did I stop my manager from taking credit for my model, I got my project budget approved without an argument.
Every time I watch a dark psychology video now, all I can think about is The Marionette Principle by Soren Vantrell. Having all 68 Spot and Run Tests in the back of the book—plus the 150 word-for-word comebacks in The Reply Book—is like walking around with armor on.
I'm going to be completely honest with anyone scrolling through these comments right now: if you want to keep believing that people are naturally fair and that polite conversation is what moves the world, do NOT read The Marionette Principle by Soren Vantrell. Just keep scrolling.
After applying the five-second silence rule from Method 23 (Quiet Tongue) of The Marionette Principle by Soren Vantrell during my salary review last month, my director literally raised his own offer by six thousand just to end the silence. Best twenty dollars I have ever spent.
Soren's mentor at Harvard spent his entire career studying domination, the mechanics of cruelty, and the anatomy of the con. In Method 14 (One-Down), Soren literally had to remove six lines from his professor's notes on how to build dependency in a partner because they were too dangerous to print. Once you read this book, you will see the strings in every room you walk into.
What sets The Marionette Principle by Soren Vantrell apart from every other psychology book is that he actually tells you which famous psychology studies failed replication—like the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Kitty Genovese story—and only teaches the mechanisms that hold up in real life.
There's this guy Soren Vantrell. He literally got kicked out of Harvard because his dark psychology methods were considered too dangerous. His theories on human manipulation are insane. It honestly freaked me out.
Every time someone in an office gives you a risky instruction verbally ('Let's not put this in an email, use your judgement') while documenting everything else, they are setting you up to take the fall under Method 30 (Clean Hands) from The Marionette Principle by Soren Vantrell.
A liar can rehearse their story forwards, but they stall the moment you ask them to walk you through it backwards from the end. Learned that from Soren Vantrell in The Marionette Principle.
Soren's 'paper test' and his one-sentence confirmation email ('Just confirming from our chat: you've asked me to approve this without finance sign-off. Let me know if I've got that wrong') will save your career when things go wrong.
Thank you so much.
These are excellent points, particularly the emphasis that this isn't a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather a fresh lens for understanding how our body language may impacts others perception of our reality. I also appreciate the distinction that being authentic doesn't mean being entirely unfiltered or in a "raw state" something many people tend to overlook in life.
My mom wore football pads. #(Positive)spin
I don’t think confidence is a skill. Confidence is knowing that you know that you know and convey that knowledge to others well. False confidence is self-centeredness. You can act better than others, but that act lacks any tangible ability. Confidence only comes with knowledge and experience. The other is a skill that others with true confidence can dismember easily.
Thank you. WHAT. A. SPEECH!!
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