Quand quelqu’un te fais une remarque, tu peux désamorcer très simplement avec cette technique qui apporte de l’Humour absurde. Elle est utilisée pour combattre les Shit Test.
Agree and amplify is the usage of the logical fallacy reductio ad absurdum (Latin for: reduce to absurdity.) What you do is you take someone’s criticism and nonchalantly imply it is absurd by exacerbating what they have said. So in relation to the shit test at the beginning of this section: “Yeah I literally wake up in the morning covered in bitches it’s that effective.”
Exemple avec une femme qui te dit que tu es trop petit :
Agree and amplify is especially efficient because, instead of going in the opposite direction, which gives a polarizing power to her tease, you go in the same direction which leaves it in the middle of the spectrum, mediocre and useless. For example if she says ‘you’re short’, if you respond with ‘no I’m not I’m actually average height blabla’ you go in the opposite direction and you give value to what she said. You acknowledge that she found a limit where you’re uncomfortable. If you respond with ‘yeah I used to work in a circus as a midget, this is how I paid for college’ you’re going in the same direction and now her tease seems lost in the middle. Being short has lost all its negative power.
So agree and amplify shows her that not only are you not affected by this poke, you’re comfortable going way further than that. It also gives her tingles.
Si le contexte s’y prête, tu peux aussi “disagree and amplify” ou même “interpret and amplify”.
Exemple : “Tu es petit” - “En fait je suis le plus grand de ma famille donc je suis surpris que tu dises ça”