The Power of Suggestion (a true short story) A lesson I learned a long time ago came from a co-worker early in my career.  I remember it fairly well, because it was significant to me, and I asked her to repeat the details a year or so after she first told me about it so I would remember them (the important ones).  I thought it would be useful for understanding how easily the human mind can be persuaded to act in a certain way.   It's not always a bad thing, but it's good to be aware of it. My coworker was just a couple years out of college, and she told me about the project her team did for Psych 101 class.  The class size was over 300 students, and the teams were 6-8 students.  I seem to recall hers was 6 or 7.  It might have been 7 and then dropped to 6, but whatever, it was a small team.  Her team decided their project was going to be their goal to make the professor stand on a specific spot on the stage.  He would walk from side to side across the stage, so they picked a spot that was off to one side, a bit 'out of the way'.   Enough to make it obvious that he was being influenced. So their little team spread themselves out across the auditorium in various places.  As the professor got closer to "The Spot", they would perk up, sit forward, take notes, and be more attentive as he got closer to the spot.  The farther away he got, they would slouch, relax, and appear to go to sleep.  She said it only took 2 weeks to get the professor to stand on the exact spot, and he taught the class the rest of the semester from that location.  If he ever ventured away even a bit, they did the routine to nudge him back onto "The Spot".  They got an "A" for the class. So, a simple little lesson in human psychology.  I never forgot it, and it made me much more aware of the MSM's attempts to "influence" people to act in a certain way.  Think about it - how many MSM corporations and outlets are there?  6? 7?