Danny Walsh explains why giveaways work: they tap into ego and the desire to win. When he asks audiences to choose between being a loser or winner, everyone picks winner, even though they claim they're not chasing freebies. The psychology of winning drives engagement instantly.
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is a giveaway. People love to win, right? And we dismissed some of the myths around this in, in the previous trainings and onboarding and different things. But for example, uh, people might say, hey, you know, people who want to win stuff are just freebie seekers. And I posed the question, are you a freebie seeker? And everybody said no. And then I said, well, do you want to win some stuff? And everybody said yes. So regardless of who you are, people love to win. Is there any losers in the chat right now? Put a 1 in the chat if you're a loser, right? You see exactly that. Put a 2 in the chat if you're a winner, right? You put a 2 in the chat if you're a winner, and we should see some 2s, like ego and all of the things come into play. And people want to win. People get excited. By the fact that they have won some stuff. Now put a zero in the chat if you have never won anything for a long time. If you've not won anything for a long time, you didn't win the lottery because you need to make some money, um, you've possibly not won a prize from anybody. Just put a zero if you, if you've not won anything for a while. Right, so imagine what happens when you're scrolling along and you see this crazy website appear that says win this thing that is