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The Lying Professor Trick (plus an example) This is my first post on Reddit, so forgive any mistakes I may make. Here's the link: http://www.zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/ I stumbled on this a long time ago and took it to heart. The good part is the sixth paragraph from the bottom, where he tricks his students into studying the semester's hardest lesson like mad. I got to use something similar to this in an online conversation with a cute girl I was getting to know a few days ago. We'd seen each other at my school's salsa dancing club during the last semester, but didn't know each other too well yet. I used the technique to both get her thinking about me and to find out more about her (as a precaution against sticking it in crazy.) Here's how it played out: We were talking about a vacation she had just taken with her family, and the next logical step would be talking about her family. I introduced it this way: "Let me guess: you're the middle child?" Her: "Yes. How'd you know that?" It was a lucky guess. I knew she had at least two brothers, and that was about all I knew. But I remembered the technique and decided to try it out. Me: "I'm not telling you that easily. Guess." Her: "Is it my personality? Is it because I'm an extrovert?" Me: "No, guess again. It would be something I've observed in the few times we've seen each other." And this continued, with her rattling off her favorite characteristics of herself and me shooting them down. It served three purposes: it gave me an idea of what she thinks of herself, it made her feel good by talking about herself (a Dale Carnegie trick), and it got her combing through her memory and analyzing every single time we'd ever interacted. At the end of the conversation she still hadn't guessed it, so I told her I'd reveal it the next time we saw each other. This offered an incentive to meet up with me, and hopefully she's spent more time thinking about it since that night. This happened recently, and I haven't se

The Lying Professor Trick (plus an example) This is my first post on Reddit, so forgive any mistakes I may make. Here's the link: http://www.zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/ I stumbled on this a long time ago and took it to heart. The good part is the sixth paragraph from the bottom, where he tricks his students into studying the semester's hardest lesson like mad. I got to use something similar to this in an online conversation with a cute girl I was getting to know a few days ago. We'd seen each other at my school's salsa dancing club during the last semester, but didn't know each other too well yet. I used the technique to both get her thinking about me and to find out more about her (as a precaution against sticking it in crazy.) Here's how it played out: We were talking about a vacation she had just taken with her family, and the next logical step would be talking about her family. I introduced it this way: "Let me guess: you're the middle child?" Her: "Yes. How'd you know that?" It was a lucky guess. I knew she had at least two brothers, and that was about all I knew. But I remembered the technique and decided to try it out. Me: "I'm not telling you that easily. Guess." Her: "Is it my personality? Is it because I'm an extrovert?" Me: "No, guess again. It would be something I've observed in the few times we've seen each other." And this continued, with her rattling off her favorite characteristics of herself and me shooting them down. It served three purposes: it gave me an idea of what she thinks of herself, it made her feel good by talking about herself (a Dale Carnegie trick), and it got her combing through her memory and analyzing every single time we'd ever interacted. At the end of the conversation she still hadn't guessed it, so I told her I'd reveal it the next time we saw each other. This offered an incentive to meet up with me, and hopefully she's spent more time thinking about it since that night. This happened recently, and I haven't se