Are You Not Aware Of The Massive Flexibility Of Presuppositions? This is an article in a series on linguistic presuppositions, those powerfully effective language patterns that you can use conversationally to persuade your listeners and readers. Today’s pattern is called the “Spurious Not,” and is similar in structure to both the rhetorical question pattern and [...]
Who Cares How You Use These Powerful Patterns? This is an article in a series on linguistic presuppositions, which are powerful language patterns that you can use to covertly persuade others either through simple conversation or writing. Today’s pattern involves the use of “Rhetorical Questions,” which are questions, which don’t require, nor expect, an answer [...]
Have You Begun To Realize How Powerful These Are? This article on linguistic presuppositions, those powerful and covert language patterns that you can easily use to conversationally persuade others, is on the “Factive Verbs and Adverbs” pattern. These are called factive verbs and adverbs simply because the way these verbs are used presuppose the factive [...]
Why You Should Study NLP Have you ever been window-shopping, and maybe decided to venture into a store to get a better look, and one thing led to another and you ended up buying something that you hadn’t set out to buy that day? Or maybe you were kind of in the market for something, [...]
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 [...]
“I just can’t do it.” “Can’t?” “Nope. Can’t do it.” “Why not?” “She doesn’t like me.” “How do you know?” “What do I mean how do I know? I said ‘hi’ and she totally ignored me.” “Uh huh. So when you said ‘hi,’ and she doesn’t respond, that means she doesn’t like you?” “Yep.” “Hmm. So, [...]
Or reality meltdown? What exactly is the “Economy” anyways? I suspect that definition number two(c) from dictionary.com is most appropriate: “The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.” Of course that doesn’t help much, since it is using a variant of one word to define another. The “Economy” is the range of [...]