5 Ways To Win Any Argument

Provided by the masters of modern thought

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1. Freud

When anyone disagreed with Sigmund Freud, he simply told the person they were repressed. The reason someone is not agreeing with you isn't your fault, it is the fault of the person’s unconscious inability to let themselves understand your argument. The confrontation with the information hits a bit too close to home in relation to the dark forces that govern the other’s personal reality. With more work, perhaps one day they will understand, but it’s going to take time.

Freud really became the king of gaslighting when he invented the unconscious!

2. Jung

Carl Jung once said, “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

Thinking is productive and beneficial, judgement is static and negative.

If someone is determined to hold onto a stance, you can argue that they’ve made their mind and they are done thinking, thus implying that they give up.

Thinking is the honorable thing because it continues to try to figure a problem out, and resigning yourself to some solution that’s just good enough is intellectual laziness.