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For example if I am a programmer and I make an app and start a company and I tell my customers that my company will reinvent X & Y, then even if nobody believes what I say it only matters that I planted that seed in people’s minds. I am now attributed with doing X & Y because nobody has countered what I said. It’s a sales pitch and that’s why Tolstoy never understood it because he was too honest for sales