Understanding Personality Traits & The Art of Persuasion #shorts

24 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Matthew Kelly reflecting on how travel and exposure to many countries helped the speaker recognize recurring personality types. The speaker claims personalities can be grouped by observable behavior (dress, speech), that traits repeat across people, and that this ability allowed him, from a young age, to understand others’ thoughts and feelings and use that understanding to persuade them to do things for him.

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Also in so many different countries, being well traveled, it's given me so much perspective at such a young age that I can meet someone and quite easily put myself into their shoes, because I think there's only a finite number of personalities that you can even meet. It's not like there's an infinite number of personalities. No. Like you can kind of group people based on their behavior, the way they dress, the way they talk into a certain personality. And over time, when you meet more people, you start to recognize traits like, oh, I've seen this trait in someone before, and at a young age, I was able to do that. I was able to understand quite well how they think and how they feel and use it against them to persuade them to do things for me.