The Power of Comparison To Create Enormous Influence You can dramatically increase your powers of persuasion with the simple application of some incredibly effective but not widely well known laws of persuasion and influence. These are not esoteric theories thought up by ivory tower professors, these are hard and fast rules proven time and time again by [...]
Read This Before Somebody Else Does! There are few things that work more to create a unconscious desire to buy or acquire something that scarcity. Even though scarcity is the oldest trick in the book when it comes to sales, it still works. Any time something is in limited supply, or the time is scarce, [...]
No Strings Attached? There is a proven law in the world of persuasion that is so effective, it allowed a cultish religious group to go from barely scraping by to raking in millions of dollars a year in donations. So much so that this particular organization was later busted for tax evasion. This simple law [...]
We Are Less Rational Than We Think We humans fancy ourselves as highly evolved animals that have rational minds, advanced language, arts, society, culture and a host of other advanced technologies. We don’t like to think of ourselves as irrational creatures that are at the mercy of ancient evolutionary hot buttons. The truth about us, [...]
Aren’t You Aware Of The Power Of These Patterns? Here we are with another article on the amazing linguistic presuppositions, those incredibly powerful language patterns that you can use to covertly and conversationally persuade others for fun and profit. Today’s pattern is the “Negative Question,” and is very similar to simple questions. For simple questions, [...]
Those In The Know Already Know This Stuff Here we are with another lesson in linguistic presuppositions, those powerful language patterns you can use to covertly and conversationally persuade and influence others to your way of thinking. Today’s pattern is the Selection Restriction pattern. This particular pattern has a wide variety of applications, both good [...]
It is your desire to improve that makes you so successful This is an article in a series on linguistic presuppositions. These powerful patterns can dramatically increase your capacity for covert, conversational persuasion, as they are structured to deliver ideas to your listener or reader that will bypass their conscious “critic” and go straight into [...]
After You Read This, You’ll Understand This is an article in the series on linguistic presuppositions. Linguistic presuppositions are powerful language patterns that can dramatically increase your ability to persuade others. Today’s lesson is on the subordinate clause of time pattern. A subordinate clause is when one idea in a sentence is linked to, or [...]
Powerful Covert Persuasion With Presuppositions The human brain is a wonderful computational machine that will likely not be understood for many years to come. Only now are scientists starting to scratch the surface of how the brain operates, and how the microscopic circuitry can give rise to complex emotional and psychological behavior. One thing that [...]
Oh Yea? Says You! So the other day I was having an argument with a friend of mine. Not really an argument, although it could have easily turned into one if either one of us had a hugely vested interested in our opinions, which we both agreed were merely opinions. We’d argued/discusses several issues at [...]