What Happens When You Make Wrong Unconscious Assumptions

By persuasion news August 9th, 2011 Social Persuasion 3 Comments

This morning, I came across a very interesting article.

In part it says:

You can read more about it here if you’d like: http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/08/blockbuster-planetary-temperature.html

First of all, reading and understanding this does not make me anti environmental. Reading it made me realize the power of assumptions and beliefs.

Let’s say for a moment that your “style” of influencing is simply what you have done for years. Contributing to your “style” might be things you saw as a kid, the influence of your parents, experiences you’ve had selling or persuading, maybe a few classes somewhere along the way.

Yet this “style” causes you to make assumptions that simply may not be right. Like they are discovering in the article, many have believed that our emissions (gas, coal etc) cause problems with the ozone layer. Yet new research is showing that may not be true. Yet for the mistaken beliefs, look at the tons of things that have been imposed on nearly everyone in the form of rules, regulations and the like. Heck, soon you won’t be able to buy a plain ol’ light bulb in the USA – you’ll only be able to buy one of those new curly ones.

What if your “style” works in some cases but not in others? You might come to the conclusion that some types of people aren’t to persuadable. Or you might determine that you are not good enough, or any one of a number of conclusions that are less than helpful.

So my question is, when was the last time you really examined your “style”, meaning how you influence, what your beliefs about it are and whether or not they could use some updating?

It’s easy to go through life and think you are acting from a place of wisdom and knowledge. But it could well be that you are acting from a model not very conducive to getting what you really want.

I’m writing another blog post on the “styles” of persuasion I’ve come across lately and I think you will like it.

In the mean time, tell me your reaction to the idea that our models may need reviewing, even overhauling from time-to-time.

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By Jared April 28th, 2011 Social Persuasion No Comments

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By Jared April 27th, 2011 Social Persuasion 1 Comment

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Pounding things into someone's unconscious mind

By Kenrick Cleveland December 8th, 2010 Persuasion in Politics, Social Persuasion 9 Comments

Hi Persuader,

Is it possible to pound something into a person’s unconscious mind?

By “pound” I mean, force something in.

Well the answer is‚ ABSOLUTELY.

Have I got your attention?

But to understand that answer, we have to delve much deeper into the realm of Evil Persuasion.

Let’s look at this from both sides of the interaction.

Person A wants to get something into the unconscious of Person B. If Person A sets off alert bells in Person B, most likely nothing much will happen.

But what if “A” can create both fear of something AND a sense of trust going from his mark back to him. Would that work?

Let me give you a quick example:

There is a supposed war on terror being fought. Evidence is stacking up in the collective mind of the world that this is true. The news media dutifully talks about it incessantly. You remember 9/11. You hope it won’t happen again. You have a general fear.

But then, you are told that in the interest of “national security” they want to act powerfully to keep this from happening again. You immediately reach for the hope that is being offered. You even feel it is worth suffering a loss of your rights to have a bit of hope that all will be well in the future. (i.e. being groped in airports, being stopped and ordered to produce your papers and much more.)

So let me ask you, did you have something pounded into your unconscious?

Of course, there are a lot of presuppositions in this example. Many don’t want to believe their government would do anything like this on purpose. And that is all fine. But, open your mind to the example as a starting point and you will understand how this can happen.

Ok, but you ask, what can I do with this information.

And that is a GREAT question.

First of all, you can take your mind back! You can learn how to defend yourself. And believe me, you will want, even need to know how to do this. Sooner than later.

Due to the changes and uneasiness that is being felt by all of us, it is easier than ever before to fall victim. Have you felt worry recently? A deep unsettling feeling at times about the future? Sure, anyone can have these kinds of thoughts from time-to-time, but if you look around you, it is happening more and more – on a global scale.

This flings the doors open wide for any evil manipulator (or would be evil manipulator) to seize the opportunity.

Change is upon us. The waters are murky. It’s harder and harder to tell friend from foe, good from bad. And the last frontier that exists, is your mind. And there is a battle being waged for it on many fronts. From governments to big business to people you’d never suspect – all are going after this biggest and most lucrative of targets. The fact is, it isn’t that hard to do, if you know how.

Bringing this home, right now, let me point you to the hopefully more obvious. Every day you have to make decisions. Who should you trust with your finances? How much should you trust a new employee? Is the person seeking your affections honorable? And much more. Any of these transactions could forever change your life. If they intend evil and are skilled, it can be over before you wake up the next morning.

The good news is that I am going to help you see the manipulations. In doing so, I will have to show you how they are done. I hope you are able to resist the temptation to use the information for bad.

More coming tomorrow.

Kenrick

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Strippers vs. Church

By kim August 11th, 2010 Social Persuasion 11 Comments

Dear Persuader,

In today’s blog post I have a fascinating case study to share with you about the persuasive power of enemies.

The Columbus Dispatch in Warsaw Ohio reported on a story so funny that I could barely contain myself as I read it.

I’ll present the gist of it here for you along with my analysis. There are profound lessons in persuasion to be learned here.

For the past four years churchgoers from a local church gather approximately 7 miles from the church near a strip club. They videotape customers coming in and out of the club and post them online.  They use bullhorns and signs to try and dissuade customers from frequenting the strip club.  And of course they invite everyone, including the dancers to “come to church”.

This last weekend the dancers decided to take the church up on their invitation.  They showed up for church.  Only thing is, they came wearing see-through shorts and sporting super soakers.

They sat on the front lawn of the church and grilled hamburgers, corn on the cob and in general had a good time.  They waved at the passersby while waving their own signs.

Signs like: “Matthew 7:15: Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing.”  And–“Revelations 22:11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

If this isn’t funny enough, there’s more.

The strip club owner sued the church in federal court several years ago claiming a violation of his constitutional rights, but he lost.  So now he feels turnabout is fair play.  If they can come to his club, he can come to their church.

Several members of the church came and offered to pray for a couple of the dancers to which the dancers graciously accepted. One of the dancers said she was grateful for the prayers and went on to explain that after all the majority of the dancers were also religious.

One of the dancers, a 30-year-old married mother of six explained that she has worked there the last 10 years and does so to keep her home together and give her children what they need.

This story presents some powerful lessons in persuasion.

So tell me, who will win?  The church or the strippers?

Here’s the answer… Neither One.  However, both will probably help the other in powerful ways.

Do you believe the church will ever accept the strippers?  The problem is, that they really can’t – even if they wanted to.  Why? Because they’ve made the strippers the enemy… the devil incarnate.

The church, by creating this enemy and by publicly making a show of trying to shut them down has locked themselves into a position of having to defeat the strip club or accept defeat… something they can’t do.

Their choice of enemy has helped define who they are.

I asked the question above, ‘who will win?’  But a better question to ask would be, ‘who will benefit?’  And in this case, the very business that the church would like to run out, will probably grow in size and power because of the free publicity the church is ensuring they get.

The church may also grow in size due to the publicity.  But probably not.  The way in which they’ll benefit is having their membership grow even more committed to ousting this evil business.

We can only hope that the church will not cross the line and commit violence in the pursuit of their ideals.

This is a great case study in the use of enemies.  Your use of persuasion can be made infinitely more powerful if you have an enemy.  All companies and organizations can have enemies (real or imagined).  However, your choice of enemy helps define you – so choose wisely.

If the church had done this type of analysis, do you think they would have chosen this particular enemy?  All I can say is, they might have but they would have been much better off being a bit more general with this instead of so specific.  In this case they might actually be helping the very group they wish to hurt.

Enemies can be clearly definable or can be ideas.  For example, look at the “war on terror” or the “war on drugs”.  In these instances the enemies are terror and drugs.  These are both extremely intangible.  These “wars” have done nothing but line the government’s pockets with money.  Well that’s not true, they’ve given the drug cartels the capability of giant profits, thus ensuring that they continue.

These wars have also caused ongoing fear and unrest in the population at large.  Are they worth it?  Only you can decide.

So in your selection of an enemy, choose wisely.  It’s best if your enemy actually stirs up the emotion in the group you want to persuade.  But common sense dictates that you use discretion in your choice.

I hope this case study has been eye-opening.  And it would be great if you shared with everyone your thoughts on the use of enemies.

And why not post other examples of organizations and enemies as they come to mind.  It could be quite eye-opening.

I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Kenrick