Watts Involved

This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.

A senior executive once told David he couldn't reach his audience, and the anxiety was crippling — so instead of drilling presentation technique, they worked on the neurology underneath it. This episode walks through three brain essentials from Chapter 2 of Cracking The Influence Code — mirror neurons, oxytocin and the amygdala — and lands on the CARE framework as the week's usable tool. Mechanism first, platitudes never.

This episode draws on Chapter 2 of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code: “Your Influential Brain – Neuroscience Essentials”.

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This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.

This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.

Looking back at Episode 163 of Watts Involved with Matt Brown — founder and CEO of Digital Kung Fu and Black Swan Technology Holdings — and his 36-month roadmap to a hundred-million-dollar valuation. David unpacks the mechanism behind imposter syndrome, why systems beat ambition, and what it takes to kill something you love when it can't scale. The episode closes with a practical NLP tool for turning down the volume on your inner critic, drawn from Chapter 9 of Cracking The Influence Code.

Hear the full original conversation with Matt Brown, Episode 163: https://wattsinvolved.com/episodes/matt-brown-scaling-a-business-to-100-million-in-36-months/

The Reset, a free seven-day course from Quantum Self Development: https://quantumselfdevelopment.com/

This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.

This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.

A surgeon told David's mother he might never speak again — and nobody ever passed the message on to the four-year-old lying in the hospital bed. Drawn from Chapter 1 of Cracking The Influence Code, this episode traces how a voice was rebuilt word by word, how late-night radio turned into a thirty-year obsession with how language moves people, and why influence is unavoidable whether you're conscious of it or not. The usable tool this week is the Afterwards Test — the one ethical measure David applies to every technique in the book.

This episode draws on Chapter 1 of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code: “My Story – The Power and Mystery of Communication”.

The Reset, a free seven-day course from Quantum Self Development: https://quantumselfdevelopment.com/

This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.

On the second of September I went in for a hiatus hernia repair and a Nissen fundoplication — a torn diaphragm patched up, a large part of my stomach retrieved from my chest, and a new one-way valve built from the stomach itself. Two days in hospital, home on the Friday, feeling rather pleased with myself. By the Monday I was blown up like a balloon and in pain I still can't properly describe.

What followed was a nasogastric tube down my windpipe, a second attempt that came out of my mouth, a cornered patient issuing fair warning to the staff, and my first introduction to ketamine. I'll tell you what I experienced after that — watching my own body being wheeled down a passageway from somewhere above it — with the honest disclaimer that I have no idea whether it was a near-death experience or the drug. Then it happened all over again on the Thursday, at a different hospital, with a doctor who refused me anaesthetic and a decision to tough it out.

So here I am, eight kilograms lighter, 59 years old and eating Purity, recording this from a chair in my bedroom despite the handsome background. Next gastroscopy on the fifteenth. After that, a hip replacement and the next round of treatment for the autoimmune diseases — now two of them, CIDP and dermatomyositis. Thank you for every WhatsApp and message. I'll keep you posted.

This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.

Rapport isn't charisma and it isn't a parlour trick — it's what happens when someone's threat-detection system stands down. David Watts takes the mechanism apart: why deliberate mimicry backfires, what NLP calls pacing, and the three honest behaviours that do the real work. Plus the single question that tells you whether you've crossed from connection into manipulation.

Read the full article on Quantum Self Development: https://quantumselfdevelopment.com/articles/how-to-build-rapport/

This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.