2 Essential Skills to Add to Your Talent Stack ft. Unhumans Interview — Daily Persuasion Ep. 182

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What if just two new skills could 10x everything you already do?

In Daily Persuasion with Joshua Lisec Ep. 182: 2 Essential Skills to Add to Your Talent Stack ft. Unhumans Interview, bestselling author and persuasion expert Joshua Lisec reveals the two most underrated yet powerful tools you can learn to supercharge your career, credibility, and influence.

This episode of Daily Persuasion is more than advice—it’s a wake-up call.

Whether you're building a brand, leading a team, or trying to persuade someone to do something important, Lisec argues there are two essential skills that—when added to your existing talents—work like multipliers. And no, they’re not what you’d expect.

The first? Hypnosis.

Yes, hypnosis—not the woo-woo, swinging-watch kind, but the practical art of speaking to the subconscious to unlock behavior change. In this episode, Lisec shares how hypnosis, especially when used ethically, can deepen your impact and expand your influence. He explains that hypnosis is a kind of applied persuasion psychology, one that goes beyond surface logic and taps directly into your audience’s internal wiring.

Want to learn it? Lisec recommends starting with the book Reframe Your Brain, his collaboration with Scott Adams. Though “hypnosis” is rarely mentioned, it’s packed with persuasive techniques that anyone can use. This reframing book teaches you to see life through more productive mental models—perfect for influencing yourself and others. Once you finish that, Lisec suggests moving on to the cult classic Monsters and Magical Sticks to understand the theory behind the practice.

From there, you’ll gain real-world persuasion techniques you can use immediately—whether in a sales pitch, a marketing campaign, or even a difficult conversation at work. If you’ve been wondering how to persuade someone to do something, you’ll want to take notes.

The second essential skill? Standup comedy.

Surprised? Don’t be. As Lisec explains, doing standup—or even just training in improvisational comedy—builds quick-thinking, resilience, and unmatched audience sensitivity. When you’re in front of a live crowd, every moment is a feedback loop. You learn which lines land, which fall flat, and how to adapt in real time. That’s persuasion in its rawest form.

Lisec shares his own experience performing at dinner theater shows across Southwest Ohio before transitioning into larger public speaking gigs. Today, he draws on those skills at conservative political events, and even in tense media settings—like his Nathan Robinson interview for Current Affairs, where he stayed cool under pressure discussing his bestselling Unhumans book.

That Unhumans interview is a masterclass in calm under fire. Robinson, a socialist editor, had previously written scathing critiques of Lisec and his co-author Jack Posobiec. But in the interview, Joshua Lisec never flinches. That ability—to take heat and still be persuasive—is the result of years spent mastering attention, timing, and delivery through comedy.

“Attention is influence,” Lisec says. And it’s true. If you can keep someone’s attention, you can guide what they think, feel, and eventually do. That’s the cornerstone of effective persuasion—whether you’re writing an email, pitching a product, or ghostwriting a book (as Lisec has done more than 95 times).

This episode also touches on how hypnosis and comedy fit into the broader picture of examples of persuasion in advertising and techniques of persuasion in writing. As the only certified professional ghostwriter and hypnotist in the world, Lisec brings a uniquely effective blend of strategy and storytelling to everything he teaches.

If you want to build a talent stack that makes you unstoppable, don’t miss Daily Persuasion Ep. 182. Learn how Scott Adams, Unhumans, Reframe Your Brain, hypnosis, and humor all come together in the most powerful, persuasive way possible.

🎯 Watch now, and add hypnosis and standup to your stack. Because the best way to influence the world… is to stack the odds in your favor.