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What’s the point of a “nuh-uh!” comment like this?

The forest ain’t there. It’s a PR/advertising illusion that vanishes as soon as you engage critical thinking.

That’s my opinion. You disagree. Ok.

“How can I see the forest?” LOL.

[edit] for others reading this: it’s not that I didn’t find anything useful in the book, just that the useful bits were rare and most of the book is unrealistic BS about how effective the techniques are, which were either made up (the “true” truck-buying negotiation story, oh man, what a whopper) or omitted other factors to make the advice from the book seem to have saved the day all on its own. You’ll get the wrong idea if you take the book at face value, plus you’ll have wasted a lot of time reading a whole book that could have been a couple pretty-decent blog posts.



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