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Understanding Patrick Clair

Ever wonder what makes Patrick Clair’s work so darn good? Nol Honig sits down with the Emmy Award-winning title designer to find out. Hint: it’s more than just talent.

Game theory: Two key principles for winning negotiations | Kevin Zollman


f you want to be an expert negotiator — or even a savvy game theorist — you must master one thing. Patience. Kevin Zollman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the leading game theorists in America today, offers us some insight into how to gain the upper hand when it comes to negotiating, well, just about anything. Game theory comes in handy in a whole range of activities, from buying a car to asking for a raise. Zollman even goes as far to tell us not only how to attain negotiating power but how to sustain it, by simply telling the other other party to “take it or leave it.”

Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/kevin-zollman-take-it-or-leave-it-how-to-control-a-negotiation-like-a-game-theorist

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Game theorists have spent a lot of time analyzing various some models of negotiation. The idea is that you take what feels like a complex interaction, distill it down to it’s very simple elements and then you model it using the tools of game theory.

One of the things that game theorists have found is that in negotiation, especially in negotiations where we’re debating how to divide up some resource—classic example in game theory is dividing up a pie, but it could be anything, like money or some time with a toy, or anything where we have to decide how to divide it up.

Game theorists have discovered a couple of central principles that make a big difference to who does better in those negotiations.

One of the critical things is how patient you are, how willing you are to stay and continue to negotiate.

So if I come in in a rush to a car dealership and I say “I need a car right now,” everyone knows that the car dealer is going to try and take advantage of the fact that you need a car right now and say, “sorry, we can’t give you a discount.”

But if you come into a car dealership and you say “I don’t need a car anytime soon… if you give me a good deal today I’ll take it, but if you don’t I’ll leave, maybe I’ll come back tomorrow, maybe the next day, maybe a month later,” then you’ll get a better deal. So patience is very important.

If you’re trying to win in a negotiation you want to try and find ways to make it so that you are more patient than the other person—that is you have less to lose from letting the negotiation drag out than does the person you’re negotiating with.

So don’t wait until the last minute to buy a new car, don’t run into the bosses office right before you need that big raise. Always choose situations where you just suggest it. Say “No urgency, but I can come back later.”

By doing that you create this situation where the other person can’t take advantage of your impatience, they can’t give you a deal that is effectively a “take it or leave it” deal.

Another important thing in negotiation that can lead to better outcomes for you is: you always want to be in the position to be able to offer take it or leave it deals to the other person.

So if you can say to somebody else “here’s the deal, take it or leave it,” now they’re put in a position where they take it or they get nothing.

Now it’s tricky, of course, because I can say to you “take it or leave it,” but that doesn’t mean that it really is that way.

So by creating situations where it really is a take it or leave it situation, that can help you, but it’s also nerve-racking and dangerous so it’s a strategy that you have to be very careful about. But if you can be in a situation where you can offer somebody a true take it or leave it deal, that can often times improve the outcomes of the negotiation for you.

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Cairo’s Underground Sounds – NOWNESS


Mahraganat—meaning ‘festivals’ in Arabic—is a street music style which has quickly emerged from Egypt’s more deprived districts, rapidly embedding itself in Cairo’s urban culture. Directed by Wael Alaa

국민체조 "National Gymnastics"


국민체조 “National Gymnastics” RISD graduation film 2017 —– Welcome to my Hometown! 고향 방문을 환영합니다! This film is not meant to be interpreted but rather experienced visually and audibly, as if you were in a slow car ride back to your childhood home. Take a journey through the nostalgic, yet bizarre visual landscape of my memories and imagination. “National Gymnastics (국민체조)” is the name of the Korean national morning exercise routine invented by the government and practiced in schools since the 70’s until the early 2000’s. —– Screenings 2017: Animation Block Party Bucheon International Film Festival Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival. Fall Edition Los Angeles Cinefast

The xx visual reel


www.davyevans.co.uk All visuals have been created in camera to relate to the organic nature of the record. Visuals for each track were used for online presence, the xx app and projections at live shows.

Etsy – Valentine's Day


It’s always a good idea to make something beautiful, and gift it to a loved one for Valentine’s Day. Here’s to the craft artisans that provide us with all the necessary materials to make for inspiring romantic gifts. Smooch. For full credits visit buck.tv

One Tin Soldier – The Original Caste [Original]


A video of one tin soldier by its original singers, the original caste. I think they sang it the best. I took the music from the original caste, and synced it with cher’s cartoon video.

4-2: The History of Super Mario Bros.' Most Infamous Level


https://www.twitch.tv/summoningsalt

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Thanks to andrewg1990 and kosmic for research help! (also I asked xx_420_blazit_xx about a couple of things so shoutout to him too!)
Music Credits-


https://soundcloud.com/henrikjonssonmusic “mystical digital”
https://m.soundcloud.com/the-rain-sword/t-800 (the intro music)

I’m working on making a music list for the VGM used in all of my videos.
But for now, if you’re wondering what a particular song is in this video, it’s probably from either-
Waterworld SNES OST
Top Gear SNES Track 1
Check Mii Out Channel
Wii Weather Channel
Wii Sports Boxing

Patrick Lemieux’s video- https://vimeo.com/84148499

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