Archive for the 'Social Skills' Category
Those That Have Read This Post Know Its Power This is fifth in a series of articles regarding presuppositions, and how to use them to effectively and covertly persuade others. By consciously choosing your intentions, and then structuring your message using various language patterns, such as presuppositions, you will find that your ability to persuade [...]
July 1st, 2010 | Posted in NLP Tips, Persuasion, Presuppositions, Social Skills | No Comments
NEXT! The other day I was talking to a friend of mine from high school about this problem that she’s been having with her next-door neighbor and her daughter. She thinks that because they are not as quiet as they used to be, then that means that something has happened, and she is taking it [...]
April 21st, 2010 | Posted in Decisions, Metaphor, Model of the World, Social Skills, Stories | 1 Comment
Pistols At Dawn I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and I noticed something interesting about her speech. She had always spoken like that, but I hadn’t talked to her in quite a while. Last time we spoke was before I had become interested in language, having read several books on linguistics and [...]
April 18th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Language, Metaphor, Model of the World, NLP Tips, Social Anxiety, Social Skills | 1 Comment
Boom I was having this interesting conversation the other day with this girl that happened to be sitting at the table next to mine in this weird café/restaurant I went to for lunch. One of those things when you make some piece of small talk, not really expecting anything, and then the topics for follow [...]
March 18th, 2010 | Posted in Metaphor, Model of the World, Social Skills | No Comments
How To Master Body Language To Maximize Your Covert Persuasion With Seemingly Psychic Abilities Several people have emailed me asking to write more about creating rapport. So today I’ll delve a little bit deeper into exactly how to create rapport, and exactly what to do with it. Many people have a misconception about rapport. The [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Body Language, Body Language and Flirting, Communication Skill, Conversation Skills, How to Sell, Persuasion, Sales, Sales Skills, Social Skills, Techniques | No Comments
What The Creator of Conversational Hypnosis Can Teach us About Sales And Seduction Every time you open your mouth, you have an intention. Whether this intention is conscious or not, planned or not, automatic or not, realized by you or not, this intention is there. Perhaps if somebody asks you the time, your intention is [...]
November 1st, 2009 | Posted in Conversation Skills, Covert Persuasion, How to Sell, NLP Tips, Persuasion, Sales, Sales Skills, Social Skills, Uncategorized | No Comments
If you are single, then you know how incredibly difficult and frustrating it can be to navigate the uncertain waters of dating and seduction. Before we start, let me say that I’m not using seduction in any underhanded or manipulative sense. Whenever you are interacting with another person in hopes of eliciting any kind of [...]
October 28th, 2009 | Posted in Communication Skill, Confidence, Conversation Skills, Love, Magic, Shyness, Social Anxiety, Social Skills | 1 Comment
The other day I was eating a peanut butter sandwich. I don’t eat peanut butter sandwiches much anymore, but I use to eat them all the time as a kid. I even experimented with different ways to make them. Grilled, toasted, microwaved, roasted, I even tried leaving one outside on our backyard deck to see [...]
September 5th, 2009 | Posted in Perception, Social Skills | No Comments
I was taking a bus last weekend to a town not too far from here. It’s in another prefecture, and they have a really good museum there. They’ve taken five hundred or so of the most famous paintings from all time, and reproduced them using some high tech ceramic imaging. (Gotta love Japanese technology!) Supposedly [...]
July 20th, 2009 | Posted in Appreciation, Perception, Social Skills | No Comments
The other day I was talking to a friend on the phone. Actually we were talking through Skype. I don’t know if you’ve ever done this before, but it really is a great way to communicate with somebody. Especially if you are the kind of person that likes to make friend with a lot of [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Choice, Confidence, Fears, Metaphor, Social Anxiety, Social Skills | No Comments