Reddit mentions of Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

You need to get to a doctor, so that they can properly diagnose you and get you better meds. Maybe talk to your school nurse and try to convince her to write you a note that will help convince you parents to take you to the doctor. Maybe read some books on persuasion, to help you get what you need out of others. I liked Influence and have heard good things about Presuasion. You unfortunately will have to start taking care or yourself now. That might mean earning money so that you can pay for a doctors appointment, or figuring out how to get on medicaid. Sorry for your suffering.

Like with everything, the reality lies somewhere in the middle.

I am voting for Trump but let me agree with you, he definitely had a tendency to ramble during his rallies. I attended one and it was a little disconcerting.

I don't hear war-mongering or bigotry, however. Maybe I'm privileged. I hear someone who desperately loves his country and has seen it fall prey to politicians that don't seem to understand the consequences of their actions. He's been railing against bad trade deals like NAFTA for decades.

Read his book, the Art of the Deal. Read some Cialdini while you're at it, just so you can better understand the tools Trump is using to win. It also wouldn't hurt to entertain Scott Adam's blog (he endorsed Clinton) as he's been pretty spot-on with his analysis thus far. While you may not appreciate Trump's policies, you can at least find something to respect in his technique. He's effectively exposed the establishment for the out-of-touch elitists that they are, and the OP subject of this thread is proof perfect of that.

Hands down that would be Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini. I bought it on audio so I could listen while doing other things ... But that failed, cause I kept pausing it to take notes and bookmarks. NEVER have I taken so many notes on an audio book on my life!

Maybe it's cause I hate selling my own stuff, yet have a solid 20 year career background in how the subconscious mind works, and resonate best with understanding why something works ...whatever the reason, I was able to glean many MANY "aha! Moments" that made me feel i could comfortably employ/keep in mind pretty much every principle Cialdini covers.

And he covers them in step by step, sequential order, with each aha! leading to a pre-understanding of the next.

After all, u/ridge9 ... what is negotiation if not selling your viewpoint?

Love to know what you think in a future update, if you decide to give it a look!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1501109790/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521071657&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=pre-suasion&dpPl=1&dpID=51JkmF0D-PL&ref=plSrch

It was pretty good... sunny three of the four days, and I went for a swim on the 4th day anyway. I've only started reading books for pleasure in the last year. I'm trying to work in fiction but even when I was little I was drawn to non-fiction books and that's still true. The last book I finished was Apollo: The Race to the Moon... excellent read, surprisingly compelling. Before that I read Pre-Suasion, a book about influencing people, Roger Ebert's memoir, and a book about Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign.

The later would be safer for the preservation of life. The former just kicks the can down the road, I support CalEXIT for the former reason, but they're going to be in the same spot they're in now in another 30 years if independent.

People are genetically more pre-disposed to trust and be drawn to people they are physically similar to. Many social psychologist experiments have confirmed this. I listened to the audio book, so I cannot provide the root source, but they're referenced in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revolutionary-Way-Influence-Persuade/dp/1501109790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1468962502&sr=8-2&keywords=cialdini

I would suggest Influence and Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini. They both do an excellent job explaining how people make decisions in the heat of the moment. He includes lots of stories and examples so they are both a very interesting read.

For a start Frame, Anchoring, Congruence etc which are used freely in many PUA talks and videos all come from NLP terminology. It's worth studying the basics to know what people are talking about.

Robert Cialdini’s new book Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade is probably a more modern scientifc approach to the same end.