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How to Spot the Games People Play Before They Work on You
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33 full audio lessons across 5 modules
The full course book, with chapter breakdowns you can read alongside the audio
Guided assessments that track your progress toward completion
A real Certificate of Completion when you finish
The struggle: Bosses, spouses, parents, friends. Everybody plays games. Some are obvious. Some are sneaky as hell. Dirty Damn Games teaches you how to spot what people are really doing before you get sucked into it.
The outcome: Catch the guilt trips, lies, power moves, fake kindness, moving goalposts, credit stealing, and other dirty little games while they're happening. Figure out what they actually want, quit falling for the same shit, and know when to call it out, shut it down, or walk away.
How a favor for a coworker turned into a course. Told by OB, in his own words.
How It All Began
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OB the Chancellor
Street knowledge meets serious thinking. Three things, every course.
Make more money
Spot the moves that decide who gets paid, and make them on purpose.
Save more money
Stop paying the tax on being the easiest person in the room to move.
See it coming
Read the play while it is still being run, not weeks after it worked.
Every lesson traces back to an established field. We take what actually happens on a sales floor, in a boardroom or at a family dinner, and connect it to the study that explains it.
How incentives, biases, scarcity, loss aversion and framing influence what people do with money.
How to recognize strategy, cooperation, betrayal, bluffing, leverage and the next move.
How status, groups, authority, conformity and social pressure change people's behavior.
How people misread reality, make assumptions and convince themselves they're right when they're wrong.
How to think about your own thinking, question your interpretation and separate what you know from what you assume.
How to weigh risk, reward, opportunity cost, uncertainty and the consequences of being wrong.
How leverage, alternatives, anchors, concessions and walking away change a negotiation.
How people signal money, status, competence, confidence, loyalty and intent, and when those signals are fake.
How knowing something the other person doesn't creates advantage, and how to recognize when you're on the wrong side of it.
How companies actually work: politics, incentives, unwritten rules, reorganizations and who really makes decisions.
Who has influence, who has access, who controls information and why the biggest title doesn't always hold the most power.
How incentives, people and systems interact, and why one move can create consequences nobody expected.
How words, framing, narratives and emotion are used to influence what you believe and what you do.
13 disciplines. No textbook for the sake of a textbook.
Two experts from opposite worlds. One brings the street, the other brings the study. Neither holds back.
OB the Chancellor
Official Spokesperson
Recognized community leader and living proof of the principles behind Self Made College. Went from minimum wage to multiple six figures and remembers every lesson it cost him.
Prof. Miras
Professor
Specializes in game theory, behavioral economics and power dynamics. Takes what OB lived through and shows you the mechanism underneath it.
Every one of them shows up in the courses. Each has its own voice.
OB’s Head
The inner voice that tells him exactly what he should do, right before he does the other thing.
Carmichael
Turns up singing, usually to remind him about the eggs.
The Rain
Has personal beef with OB and does not hide it.
The Co-Worker
Needed a ride. Right down the street, she said.
The Tow Truck
Two hundred dollars. Cash only. No ride back.
The Wife
Still waiting on those eggs.
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