The podcast “The Influence You Have” argue in the uncommon way in which The Milgrim Shock experiment is typically argued. In the experiment the main focus is on the “teacher” who is still admitting the electricity to the “student” because they are just following orders even though they know that the student could potentially be seriously injured. Typically this experiment is used to show how people are easily controllable and that they can be made to do things by people with little effort at all, and that they can be controlled like sheep. However the way that the podcast explains the experiment is by looking in the perspective of the experimenter. That to understand how they are able to control the teacher and continue to make them do the things that they know they should not be. Furthermore it details how putting people in a situation without much time to think about the decision usually allows them to make the decision within the masses. Lastly, when people are faced with uncertainty they are more easily able to go in the direction of the popular decision with the masses. This is why dictators and evil people have been able to take control of the surrounding people around them multiple times throughout the course of history.

A time that something I said to someone had a bigger impact on that person than I thought it would was the time I indirectly forced my friend to get a job. I was working and at the place of my job there is one of the coin machines that will count your change for you for a percentage out of the total. My decent friend came in and he was going to use it. All he had on him was about 6 dollars in quarters. He told me he needed to use it to buy lunch that day. I know he’s not struggling in anyway and that his family is very comfortable so I begin to insult him on how he could be that broke. I told him to get a job and stop scavenging through his car for loose change. Then I told him that he was even more of an idiot for using the machine when he was too lazy to count 6 dollars worth of quarters. A few weeks later I saw him again and he told me that he got a job because of what I said to him and he was not that broke anymore.