Reddit reviews How to Argue and Win Every Time

Personally I've found there to be few helpful books which directly relate to management consulting / business strategy. The only one that I've found really helpful is:

• Winning - an overall look on business strategies and philosophies used by Jack Welch (former CEO of GE)
  
  But here are some books that are very helpful in developing people / soft skills essential to effective consultants:
  
  
• Getting to Yes - an incredible book on negotating skills.
  
• How to Argue and Win Every Time - not as argumentative as it sounds, this is a great book which is hugely helpful on how to present your positions and how to get the best outcome for everyone in a situation.
  
• Influence - brilliant book on the ways in which we are influenced to do things.
  
• The 48 Laws of Power - a very Machiavellian put pragmatic look on the ways in which personal power is gained / lost.
  
• Vital Lies, Simple Truths - how to recognise self deception that we're all prone to and how to overcome its limitations
  
• The Blank Slate - a mindblowing book on human psychology and what we're naturally predisposed to be. Helps you to better understand people and their motivations in not just business but all aspects of life. Read from Part 2 onwards.

I'm not for you creating news, then crossposting it here. It's just noise.

You got 90+ comments. A few people agreed with you. It reads like it went OK, given initial conditions. I don't know if you'd believe me, but for the most part, libertarianism isn't completely bankrupt, you just can't apply it to absolutely every part of society. I've read the Ayn Rand set, I like parts of the philosophy, but I also understand there is a place for government, regulation, taxes, and polite society.

Some guy wrote a great post about "going to die on the hill" when people bring up private roads. Libertarians want to deregulate drugs, get us out of foreign wars, and reduce regulations that monopolies use to stay monopolies.

There should be a common ground.

You going over there to deliberately post what is essentially garbage about a dictionary definition of "tyranny" isn't going to build consensus or get us any closer to political utopia. You're just making enemies.

I think in the end many of us want the same things, but starting out from the paradigm of "we are enemies, here are some shitty goalposts, let's debate", (Jesus Christ, there is a /r/AskLibertarians/) ... it's caustic.

Real people don't run on "logic, reasoning, and unambiguous verbiage". You're thinking of robots. I would recommend some books on Debate.

No amount of "being right" will make up for "being respected". If you want to win people to this position, I'd work on the mechanics of convincing others.

(I feel for you, this is a problem I'm very aware of myself, but you need honest feedback, not a circle-jerk.)

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How to argue and win every time, by Gerry Spence. A great book for everyday conversations.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Argue-Win-Every-Time/dp/0312144776/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450385947&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+argue+and+win+every+time

A People's History of the United States,
Lies my Teacher Told Me,
Fair Game,
Anything by Noam Chomsky,
Garbage Warrior,
The Corporation,
The Men Who Stare at Goats,
Generation Kill,
Jesus Camp,
Super Size Me,
Control Room,
Century of the Self,
Connections,
How to Argue and Win Every Time,
How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Shock Doctrine, Network, Trade, Traffic, Lord of War, Blood Diamond, The Dark Side of Chocolate,Spin, Bullworth, Collapse, Guns, Germs and Steel, Bill Hicks: Revelations, Why We Fight, Hotel Rwanda, The End of Poverty?, Food Inc., Occupation 101, The Hunting Party, The Power of Nightmares

https://www.amazon.com/How-Argue-Win-Every-Time/dp/0312144776/ref=nodl_

This book is a pretty good crash course.

Sorry. It's unfair, but many things that aren't fair are also legal.

Start a student organization to protest this. Get a petition, bring it to the principal. Explain your case intelligently and in a mature manner. If you have trouble with this part, read this book.

If that doesn't work, have everyone take the $20 they would have spent on pictures to print an unofficial yearbook using photos you snapped yourselves.

I love it, I could go on and on until the other person starts freaking out then I know that it will be easier winning then because they always end up freaking out hahahaha.
The only way to improve is talking and laughing with people, is really great man, just keep practicing and you will get there.
Three years ago I read this fantastic book and I leant a lot, https://www.amazon.com/How-Argue-Win-Every-Time/dp/0312144776%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0312144776, hope it helps.

Try this

It's about "arguing" but it really gives some good deflection tools.
Also, I would recommend something on negotiating, like this one