
Jay Shaw describes hypnosis as a form of influence woven through everyday interactions like romance, parenting, and persuasion. He frames manipulation as a skill and says people close to him must be able to influence him.
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Like, so you gotta understand the way that I see hypnosis. I see hypnosis as something that's continually going on. People ask me like, hey, do you hypnotize your girlfriend? Absolutely. And she returns the favor. I'm not gonna be with nobody who can't hypnotize me. Like, one time my friend asked me, he was like, hey man, do you ever use hypnosis to get women to, you know? I said, hey Zach, I didn't mean to say his name. I said, hey Zach, please don't tell me you out here like being intimate with women without using hypnosis. That's crazy. That's the definition of sexual assault. Foreplay is hypnosis. Getting like agreement, like, hey, do you want to— that's hypnosis. If you skip that part, that's sexual assault. You gotta use hypnosis, man. Like, so it's such a loaded question because hypnosis is in everything. If I go to a restaurant, I'm saying, oh man, D, you got to try this restaurant. Steak, man, the knife just fall through it. The music, the scenery, bro, it's amazing. And you decide to go eat at their restaurant, I just hypnotize you. Like, it's the same. It's— that's, that's hypnosis. So I'm using it in every— I'm using it to potty train my children. I'm using it to discipline my children. Me and my partner have a, a disagreement, or even just a conversation, even if we agree, it's hypnosis. Just like manipulation. And manipulation— so when you look up the word manipulate, manipulate means to handle skillfully. That's what it means to manipulate. My partner manipulates me and I've returned the favor. If I go home and my partner is in a bad mood and I say, come here, babe, let me rub your back, what's going on? Let's talk about it. And she go, thank you, I feel so much better. I just manipulated her. If I got this idea for a book and I've been talking about it and talk about it and talk about it, and she say, the man that I know, the man that I fell in love with would have been wrote that book. What you waiting on, baby? Clear your schedule for the weekend and work on that damn book. You got this. I'm going. You right, baby. I'm gonna go work on that. She just manipulated me. She's handling me skillfully. Like, so people in my inner circle— to be in my inner circle, manipulation is a requirement. You're not gonna be in my inner circle if you don't handle me with skill. You know, you— that's a requirement. You gotta handle me with skill to be in my inner circle. Now you could be in the outer circle, but the people in my inner circle, they manipulate me daily.










