478: Maria Konnikova | The Confidence Game
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…
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