Protection against manipulation

Pressure from the outside can come down on us, anywhere: in relationships with family and friends, at work, at home or on the street when communicating with strangers. Without even pursuing serious malice, one way or another, others may want to get something from us without worrying about our opinion or the desire to play someone else's game.

Here are some simple examples of possible manipulations in everyday life:

For some reason, you begin to help a friend, although an hour ago they were not going to solve other people's problems.
After a meeting with the authorities, for some reason you are not doing what is part of your direct responsibilities, and for you it is very important.
After talking with someone from your family on the phone, you go to the Internet bank and send this person money, although you know that your budget is strictly limited.

As we have said, we will not consider all the variety of manipulation situations and the whole arsenal of methods against it. In this article, we will look at a few general situations related to manipulation, and tell you how to successfully exit them. All that you learn will serve as an excellent defense against manipulation in business communication and ordinary communication.

A good beginning of the main topic will be a video from the candidate of psychological sciences and psychotherapist Viktor Semenov, where he tells how to communicate with manipulators.