An A-type person’s fear may be more associated with looking weak or a B-type person may be crushed by the thought of losing a friend. Diving into the twists and turns of the personality traits is productive, fun, and intriguing.
Hiding behind emotions is a more elusive factor. It’s manipulation. Like the magician’s sleight of hand, it makes the manipulator’s actions vanish in plain sight.
This site teaches you how to spot manipulation using back-door techniques, and provides some fun quizzes with real life situations.
There are tricks to understanding certain fears. For example, when you hear doom and gloom on television, do the following: First, ignore the content for a moment, and look for key words. Words like:
- everyone agrees,
- science, or
- it’s undisputed.
These words are classic fallacies. Now go back and consider the content. This time look for evidence. Usually, there won’t be any. That’s because those key words are used to avoid showing proof. This is when you’ll know that the doom and gloom story is nothing more than the smoke and mirrors used at a carnival.
The last factor relates to treatment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, i.e. repeated exposures to the fear triggers, is the go-to treatment. But this site shows some hidden techniques.