Preamble: The Day My Reality Split Into Two p. xi
Introduction [Where I Prime You for the Rest] p. 1
Part 1 Why Facts Are Overrated p. 13
The Most Important Perceptual Shift in History p. 15
About Facts p. 19
Persuasion Vocabulary p. 27
Part 2 How to See Reality in a More Useful Way p. 31
The Myth of the Rational Mind p. 33
How Strong is Persuasion? p. 36
The Persuasion Filter p. 38
Cognitive Dissonance p. 48
Confirmation Bias p. 60
Mass Delusions p. 62
When Reality Bifurcated p. 67
The Making of a Hypnotist p. 71
Part 3 How President Trump Does What Others Can't p. 82
The Time of Kings p. 85
President Trump's Talent Stack p. 90
Trump's Rosie O'Donnell Moment p. 94
The Persuasion Stack p. 99
Setting the Table p. 116
Go Bigly or Go Home p. 120
Is President Trump A "Natural" Persuader? p. 123
Part 4 How to Use Persuasion in Business and Politics p. 127
How to Design a Linguistic Kill Shot p. 129
How to Use Visual Persuasion p. 137
How to Make People Imagine You As President p. 143
How I Got the VP Prediction Wrong p. 148
How to Persuade By Association p. 151
How to Create Effective Campaign Slogans and Logos p. 154
Godzilla Gets in the Game (or Does He?) p. 162
How to Get Away with Bad Behavior p. 169
How a Trained Persuader Evaluates Scandals p. 174
How to Win By a Hair(cut) p. 187
How to Create Two Ways To Win, No Way To Lose p. 189
How to Use the High-Ground Maneuver p. 194
A Grab Bag of Trump's Quickest and Easiest Persuasion Tools p. 198
Part 5 Why Joining a Tribe Makes You Powerful and Blind p. 205
How I Used the Persuasion Filter to Predict p. 207
Why I Endorsed Clinton (For My Safety) Until I Didn't p. 217
The Third Act p. 235
Was I Predicting or Causing? p. 243
Election Night p. 253
Acknowledgments p. 257
Appendices p. 259
Appendix A The Persuasion Reading List p. 261
Appendix B How to be a Better Writer p. 265
Appendix C How to Find Out if You are a Simulation p. 267
Appendix D Trump's Many Mistakes p. 271
Notes p. 275
Index p. 281