Pagina principaleGruppiConversazioniAltroStatistiche
Cerca nel Sito
Questo sito utilizza i cookies per fornire i nostri servizi, per migliorare le prestazioni, per analisi, e (per gli utenti che accedono senza fare login) per la pubblicità. Usando LibraryThing confermi di aver letto e capito le nostre condizioni di servizio e la politica sulla privacy. Il tuo uso del sito e dei servizi è soggetto a tali politiche e condizioni.

Risultati da Google Ricerca Libri

Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts…
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter (edizione 2018)

di Scott Adams (Autore)

UtentiRecensioniPopolaritàMedia votiCitazioni
2741096,042 (3.27)10
Politics. Psychology. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestseller that explains one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind


Scott Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Donald Trump??s election. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a lucky clown, but Adams ?? best known as ??the guy who created Dilbert? ?? recognized a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. We??re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason, and Trump knew exactly which emotional buttons to push.
 
The point isn??t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Adams goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting??the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago. Win Bigly is a field guide for persuading others in any situation??or resisting the tactics of emotional persuasion when they??re used on you. 
 
This revised edition features a bonus chapter that assesses just how well Adams foresaw the outcomes of Trump??s tactics with North Korea, the NF
… (altro)
Utente:PrueGallagher
Titolo:Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Autori:Scott Adams (Autore)
Info:Portfolio (2018), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages
Collezioni:Mind, Behavior, Ideas
Voto:****
Etichette:non-fiction, US politics, art of persuasion, Trump

Informazioni sull'opera

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter di Scott Adams

Nessuno
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 10 citazioni

I learned a few things but just a few. I was overwhelmed by the distasteful content and it felt like Adams was simply apologizing and not calling it an apology but an explanation: "Don't blame me!"

Three big failings:

1) Too repetitive. Book should have been 100 pages. Maybe 25 pages would have been sufficient. I fault his editor for this.

2) I don't believe his thesis: That Trump is a natural persuader in a world where facts don't count. I don't believe anyone was persuaded. People who voted for Trump weren't "persuaded" but just voted for him on straightforward reasons: hated Hillary, shortsighted self-interest, racism, etc. None of these required persuasion.

I was also astonished by the author's own claims such as:
3a) He was dismayed by bullying of anti-Trumpers. (It was Trump that encouraging his people to bully.)
3b) He supported Trump because he believed Hillary would tax his personal assets. (He was willing to disbelieve Trump's statements but not Hillary's?)
3c) He disagreed with so many of Trump's positions and yet still ultimately went on to support him.
3d) He says that he and his readers are not smart enough to assess climate change and other issues that our politicians face. (That doesn't mean we should let them get away with spouting nonsense. We have experts for a reason.)

I've probably said enough so I'll stop pointing out the problems.

I have read several of the author's other books (and I'm not talking about his cartoons) and I like the way he writes. In fact, I aim to write using the same persuasive style that the author explains. But wow, that doesn't mean I agree with him or found his book enjoyable. Ugh. It was awful. (And yes, I did read the whole thing.) ( )
  donwon | Jan 22, 2024 |
I enjoyed Adams’ previous book “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big”. It was down-to-earth, insightful, and humorous. That enjoyment led me to read “Win Bigly”.

Bigly mistake.

This book reveals Scott Adams to be an out-of-touch, thoroughly average apologist for gut-level chauvinism and the deterioration of our collective respect for education and cultural decency.

Adams repeatedly self-identifies as a “trained persuader”, yet I remain utterly unconvinced of any of his arguments - that Donald Trump is a “master persuader” and that Adams is one of very few people clever and informed enough to recognize Trump’s exceptional and admirable skills in the art and science of persuasion.

Maybe it’s because - as Adams reminds us again and again - he’s a rich, famous cartoonist with a lucrative speaking career? When he mentioned these attributes in “How to Fail...” I thought, “Well, isn’t he a cool dude who worked/lucked into a cool career. Good for him!” In the context of “Win Bigly”, though, he comes off as a spoiled, entitled, self-satisfied jerk.

And for all the time and analysis that Adams has devoted to Trump, the 2016 election, and its aftermath, he has the audacity to admit that HE DOESN’T VOTE. He states that he supported Bill Clinton and Al Gore, but he can’t even remember if he actually voted for them.

I gave this book every chance to change my mind about Trump and the author himself, but that moment when Adams revealed his willingness to profiteer from our political process but not engage in the most fundamental aspect of it - voting - was when I decided this is, at best, a 1-star book. ( )
  jeneralinterest | Dec 11, 2021 |
About a year before Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016, Dilbert cartoonist and author Scott Adams predicted Trump would win the election. He based that prediction on his assessment that Trump was the Master of Persuasion. Adams, in his analysis, credits Trump for using skillful tricks to persuade voters to key in on his messages. Adams is not the first to feel this way. A small handful of other observers have made similar observations, noting that Trump unabashedly makes outrageous claims, takes liberties with facts, and uses hyperbole to a fault, all the time knowing that people will only remember the basic ideas of what he is saying and will tire hearing from critics and fact checkers.

I found it interesting to see that this Scott Adam's book was mentioned in Bob Woodward's 2020 book about the President, "Rage". In trying to explain Trump to Woodward, Jared Kushner told Woodward that to understand his father-in-law, reading Adams' book "Win Bigley: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter" would help. Trump's clever use of exaggerations, hyperbole, misstatements, lies, etc. are not ethical lapses or regrettable errors. They're part of a technique of intentional wrongness persuasion. Adams argues that Trump can invent any reality for most voters. All that Trump's supporters will remember is that Trump gives his reasons, doesn't apologize, and Trump's opponents will simply call the President a liar as they always do.

An example of using this technique can be applied to Trumps Feb. 4th State of the Union speech in which he claimed that the U.S. economy was the best it had ever been. The economy was indeed very good, but has been stronger at many times in the past. But, as Kushner notes, controversy elevates message, and supporters won't care about any controversy, they'll simply remember that the economy is good. This is at the core of Trump's communication strategy in the age of the internet. In this example, a controversy over the economy only helps Trump. It reminds voters that the economy is good, and any hair-splitting, fact-checking debate in the media about whether the numbers were better decades ago is irrelevant.

There may well be other examples and clarifications in "Win Bigly", but I put the book aside after getting about half way through, and never picked it up again. I grew a little weary of Adams, citing his own expertise in the art of persuasion and in hypnotism (ad naseum), and felt there was little more to gain from reading the rest of the book. ( )
  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
I have enjoyed reading some of Scott Adam's blog, and so I thought I would enjoy reading this book. Unfortunately, some of the worst parts of what I found on his blog permeated the book, at least the beginning. I find some of his ideas interesting, but others to be naive or dismissive. I decided to stop reading after about 40 pages. ( )
  quinton.baran | Mar 29, 2021 |
I don't recommend reading this book if you're looking for an in-depth analysis of Trump's political style and past speeches or policy decisions. Based on his flip-flopping on candidate endorsements, the book as a whole comes across as Adams' way of back peddling and trying to explain his present into his past to salvage his career after the decisions he made.

I don't care that Adams supported Trump during the election cycle. I care that he presents himself as a mystic visionary and uses a lot of mystic-sounding language in the book to try to present his contemporaneous opinions and predictions as more significant than they actually were. The tone is very off-putting. The author constantly trots out his qualifications and talks about how his "brain" is special and has special "filters". The language used makes the whole book sound really hokey, like it's some back-country hocus-pocus.

I would have preferred a straight-up analysis of how Trump's policy positions evolved throughout the election cycle without the author constantly inserting himself into it in such a poorly crafted way. I gave this book two stars because there are a few bits of information in here that are worth hearing for a broader understanding of the events leading up to Donald Trump being elected in 2016. For example, you can get a barebones outline of most of the scandals during the election cycle and some insight into how and why Trump might have come up with his nicknames for other candidates and political figures. But the author constantly inserting himself into the narrative felt poorly done and sometimes out of place.

Now that we're getting closer to the 2020 elections (and in the wake of Russiagate and the fact that Trump was right all along when he called it a "witchhunt"), I'm getting more interested in how Trump has actually performed both before and since the election. When I picked this book up, I got the impression that the author was sympathetic to Trump and I'm ok with that. I'm not sure there's such a thing as a balanced book written about Trump. It seems like most every book that has come out (based on covers and titles and skimming jackets casually) has a heavy anti-Trump slant that slants into unreality and derangement. I was hoping this book would be different, and it was in how it presented Trump, but it just wasn't written very well. Or maybe it wasn't what I hoped it was going to be, and that left me feeling fairly disappointed when I finished the book.

( )
  SGTCat | Feb 25, 2021 |
nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.
Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.
Titolo canonico
Dati dalle informazioni generali svedesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Titolo originale
Titoli alternativi
Data della prima edizione
Personaggi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Luoghi significativi
Eventi significativi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Film correlati
Epigrafe
Dedica
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
For Kristina, my love and my muse
Incipit
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
In February of 2016 I began to experience two separate realities at the same time.
Citazioni
Ultime parole
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
(Click per vedere. Attenzione: può contenere anticipazioni.)
Nota di disambiguazione
Redattore editoriale
Elogi
Lingua originale
DDC/MDS Canonico
LCC canonico

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

Politics. Psychology. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestseller that explains one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind


Scott Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Donald Trump??s election. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a lucky clown, but Adams ?? best known as ??the guy who created Dilbert? ?? recognized a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. We??re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason, and Trump knew exactly which emotional buttons to push.
 
The point isn??t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Adams goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting??the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago. Win Bigly is a field guide for persuading others in any situation??or resisting the tactics of emotional persuasion when they??re used on you. 
 
This revised edition features a bonus chapter that assesses just how well Adams foresaw the outcomes of Trump??s tactics with North Korea, the NF

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

Descrizione del libro
Riassunto haiku

Discussioni correnti

Nessuno

Copertine popolari

Link rapidi

Voto

Media: (3.27)
0.5
1 7
1.5 1
2 7
2.5 1
3 9
3.5 3
4 20
4.5 2
5 7

Sei tu?

Diventa un autore di LibraryThing.

 

A proposito di | Contatto | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Condizioni d'uso | Guida/FAQ | Blog | Negozio | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteche di personaggi celebri | Recensori in anteprima | Informazioni generali | 203,193,814 libri! | Barra superiore: Sempre visibile