Hello, hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. Today we're doing more

of a forward thinking episode because I want to talk about the psychology, the manipulation of Disney

parks because, you know, I remember as a kid in my AP psych, not to brag, but yeah, my AP psych class, one of the things we were

learning about, you know, all these different ways to kind of manipulate people and psychologically

alter them was Disney Parks. And they would say that one of the things employees at Disney

are trained to do is they never point

because pointing is kind of threatening or warning or very aggressive. So instead they would do this

kind of open palm, four fingers altogether gesture to where the bathrooms are or the exits or

where you need to go. And I remember my teacher saying that

Disney parks have put so much time and energy and effort into all of these little psychological

hacks on how you can manipulate people and crowds of people. So I put together this fascinating

little research doc on it. And then we're also going to spin out and kind of talk about how Disney is that girl

because they've impacted, you know, casinos and malls and grocery stores and all of these

ways on a daily basis that we are basically being manipulated.

And I'm fascinated by it.

I think that it's so very cool.

I remember, too, even in that EP site class, you know, got to throw the AP in there,

my psych class.

My teacher was saying that Bill Clinton, you know, the way that he kind of shakes his fist or he puts his thumb

over his fingers. And I think Obama maybe would do that too. It's not pointing to the audience

because that's kind of aggressive. But it's this motion that kind of engages someone and you're

powerful without being too aggressive. And I just think all of that stuff is so very cool.

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