Comments on: How to trick dumb kids into eating less Halloween candy

By: Kim - inspirational thoughts

Kim - inspirational thoughts — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:11:10 +0000

First of all, the title of this post made me chuckle and intrigued me. I found the article interesting. It reminds me of a similiar technique I use with my employees. I set them up by conveying my thoughts about them. It works. They often live up to the expectations I set, because of how I perceive them.

By: Credit Card Chaser

Credit Card Chaser — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:31:04 +0000

Haha love the title of this post and I actually didn’t even remember this study until you went into detail and now I actually do remember hearing about this study in a class once (yes, I was one of those people that would work on their laptop during class a lot – even or especially I should say during my MBA lol). I know this isn’t really an exact real life application of this principle but maybe you should print out a bunch of credit card sized pictures of yourself waving your finger in a “tsk, tsk” motion and then send it to all of your readers so that we can place them right by our credit cards in our wallet….

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:04:37 +0000

Nice one, Ramit!

Increase consequence awareness!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:09 +0000

For some awesome ideas on how to influence your own behavior the same way advertisers do, check out http://www.takebackyourbrain.com/

Lots of ideas on the website about putting up pictures of yourself looking sexy / happy / confident / etc while doing things you want yourself to do.

By: prufock

prufock — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:05:47 +0000

You’re about thirty years late to the party.

By: Snowballer

Snowballer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:39 +0000

See this is IWTYTBR at its best.

The worst, hardest, and best thing you can ever do is look at yourself, what you’re doing at any moment in time, or anything in between.

Artificial accountability mechanisms and self trickery for the win!

By: Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:03:22 +0000

Look at the table…the answer is right there.

By: Lund

Lund — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:06:23 +0000

Poor choice of controls… What happened with mirror only (no verbal warning)?

By: Sunday Link Rodeo 6 « Evolution of Wealth

Sunday Link Rodeo 6 « Evolution of Wealth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:59:05 +0000

[...] How to trick dumb kids into eating less Halloween candy from @ramit Makes me ask, have you looked at yourself today? At the very least, it definitely sounds like a useful trick for those of you with kids. It just might be more than that though? [...]

By: Kristen from FiLife

Kristen from FiLife — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:46:36 +0000

Hey Ramit,

is boot camp happening in a house of mirrors? sounds like it should!

Kristen