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Quick Grenade Trick Thingy Whatchamacallitabob: Bypassing Belief Shields by Invoking Belief

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Remember, the person with the best questions controls the conversation. Its a universal law of nature!

This is to reframe the nature of the belief without you having to challenge pre-existing ‘facts’ in the subjects mind.

Three questions that do it better than 1,000 arguments:

"When did you (first) start believing that?"
(Creates timeline fracture — cracks identity solidity.)

"Who benefits the most from you continuing to believe this?
(Externalizes the belief — weakens emotional ownership.)

"What would happen if we suspended this belief for just 24 hours?"
(Gives safe psychological exit without forcing abandonment.)

Try these, you don’t even need to be arguing or trying to convince someone of something, just casually use them with spouse, friends, colleagues in conversation. They are a subtle but powerful way to shift conversations.

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