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be their friend and then using information shared in confidence against

them.

Whether in our personal or professional lives, there is one fact which

remains. No one likes knowing they have been manipulated. No one. With

such negativity associated with this hard, it becomes almost impossible to
believe that there is a possibility manipulation could be used for a good, or

even that it could possibly bring about change for the better.

As surprising as it may sound, manipulation is not all bad. Manipulation

exists all around us, and you often don’t have to look very far to find
evidence of it. Take marketers and advertisers for example, with their

constant messages telling us to buy this, buy that, stop doing this, and stop

doing that. They’re all trying to manipulate our decisions in one way or

another. Which forms of manipulation though, are in fact trying to get us to

change for the better?

Ads that tell us to stop smoking and eat healthier are trying to manipulate

our decisions, but in this case, they’re trying to do it to incite positive

change. Quitting smoking is for your own benefit. So it eating healthy. If it

is for your own good, doesn’t that make it a positive form of manipulation?
Governments around the world manipulate their people. So does religion.

Yet, we sometimes choose to ignore it because it comes from a more

“authoritative” source, so to speak. Businesses manipulate their customers

all the time, by creating products to boost their sales figures and then telling

consumers “they cannot live without it”.