Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This is episode 006 of the Argument Ninja podcast.

In this episode I take a look at persuasion through the eyes of seduction experts and the pickup artist community.

- why critical thinking educators need to talk about persuasion

- why scientific rationality is a social achievement that takes effort and vigilance to maintain

- preparing students for life outside the dojo

- summarizing our list of persuasion topics

- Ross Jeffries as pioneer of the seduction community

- NLP, hypnosis and “speed seduction”

- Tom Cruise, Frank T.J. Mackey, and “Seduce and Destroy”

- the seduction community’s approach to the science of persuasion

- the difficulty of answering the question “does it work?”

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