The Power of “I’m not Interested”
“I’m not interested”. “I love your energy and you’re doing a great job selling, but I’m not interested, mate.” “I can tell you REALLY want me to, but not interested. Thanks though! Happy travels!” “No, zero interested”. There’s magic in those phrases. There’s abundant, liberating, FREEDOM in those phrases. What [...]
Want to Mate, Men and Women? Be Confident for a Change!
I stumbled across a flirting, date “tip”. This was phrased as a tip and it was about self-touch. It detailed that if a woman is interested in a man, she will touch her chest, leg.
I know (because I’ve dated women and we’ve discussed how they don’t subscribe to that) that some women do [...]
Wanna Observe like Sherlock? Holmes’ Elementary Meta-Strategy!
Holmes’ Meta Strategy!This is the transcription and reflection on Robert Dilts’ Strategies of Genius.
Perception of Clusters of Details —> Behavioral Observations + Environmental Observations —> Inferences —> Combinations of inferences —> Conclusions
Cultural Assumptions & Facts are matched up with the observations to draw inferences, then the inferences are “compiled” to generate conclusions.
Why is Holmes Strategy [...]
4 Methods of Responding to Questions.
“There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should [...]
Easier exercise, better temperature, smoother reading, and improved home. How? Law of Contrast!
Question. You’re drinking a cup of lukewarm tea? You want to have it taste warmer. How do you make it taste warmer without a stove, microwave or anyway to heat the tea??
Think about this. It’s a riddle.
Now the answer to our riddle as you may have guess. Answer: You [...]
Analysis of Persuasive Closing Techniques
Most of these were galvanized from changingminds.org, a fantastic site (listed in “choice linkage”).
Yes set close is actually asking a series of 2-3 “definite yes” answers. “You’re alive right?” Right. Now, you’ve slept in the past 48 hours right? Right. You remember what the face of your Parents look like right? Right [...]
Wanna Read a Person Like a Book? Two Words: State Callibration
State Calibration
Body language can never lie; words and statements, however, can. Learning to calibrate increases your ability to know what a person is feeling. This becomes extremely potent when trying to eliminate confusion in communication and also to avoid getting deluded with words.
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, State Calibration is just “indicators” of a person’s [...]
Personality Types — Driver, Amiable, Analytical, Expressive
Very Cool list of 4 Personality types on persuasion blog. This article covers the driver, which may be my personality most often. Although I can definitely relate to amiable, analytical and definitely expressive, too. I may be analytical; highly likely with a few expressive or driver traits. My brother James [...]
Phone Conversations – The Best Ones and How to End on a High Plateau!
we talked about the like design of our diploma, thomas being a doctor, my awesome NLP stuff I loved, That felt like a REAL conversation. A great and valuable and meaningful conversation, too! Because we talked about something obscure (a lot of my conversations are like my reciting some blog post [...]
Creating Rapport by Matching Representational System Predicates and Voice Tone and Speed Journal and then Mismatching!
The Assignment:Practice Rapport and Mismatching!!! — 2 Phone Convos — in phone call observe auditorally the quality of the conversation with matching voice tone nad language rapport and then see how easy (hopefully) it is to end the call when you mismatch rapport (speaking loud if voice is soft, soft if loud slow if [...]
The Danger of "Why"
When we ask “why?” to a friend, we must carefully choose our intention so that it is only derived from a genuine source of energizing grace. “Why?” frequently can insinuate covert aggression, harbor anger destructively, and it can imply dubious lack of faith in a person. Why BLANK? Why not? Why [...]
Heating up the conversation, getting loud, intense, guttural, and very charged comes when you speak with your intention from the lower chakras. You can really start cooking if you put your intention on the orange chakra; and you’re an unstoppable ball of screaming energy when you focus on the root chakra. Then if [...]
Chronicle out Loud
Ideas get old fast. Putting your ideas in a book and publishing it is a great way to etch some of those mental connections on paper. But because the writing, editing, publishing, and distributing process is anything but instantaneous, many of the ideas or outdated, compared to the everchanging contemporary zeitgeist. The [...]