The power of persuasion

We talked about how people have different feelings about power. Some think it is somehow unseemly, it means having undue control over others. The persuasion is not a choice, it is an ever present fact of life. Someone is always dong the persuading. People are sending millions and millions of dollars to get their messages out with ultimate power and skill. So either you do the persuading or someone else does.  If you want to have control of your life, if you want to be the most elegant, effective model for those you care about, you have got to learn how to be a persuader. If you abdicate responsibility, there are plenty of other ready to fill the void.

Many times we take sets of actions and turn them into nouns as if they were objects, when actually they are processes. As long as we represent human problems as if they were things. I believe we disempower ourselves but turning them into something big and beyond our control. If we as a country decide these tolls are not the most effective or healthful approaches to energy development and consumption, we can change our behavior. The way human beings behave is what create or prevents war. Famine is not the problem in Africa. Human behavior is the problem. Destroying each other’ land does not support the creating of large good supply. If food shipped in from other human all over the world is rotting on the docks because cannot corporate, that is behavioral problem.

So if we can agree as a useful generalization that human behavior is the source of human problem so that new human behaviors can solve most other problems that arise then we become quite excited because we will understand that these behavior the results of the states human beings are in and are their models of how to respond when they are in these states.

People do not overeat every minute of every day, only when they are in a state they have linked to overeating. If you effective change those association or the linked response, you can effectively change people’s behavior.

People were able to benefit on another but finding a win- win frame that helped them all. And they were able to develop a new sense of authority and security by learning to take action to achieve a desired outcome. We have more power now than ever before to shape the inner perception that govern behavior. There is not granted we will shape them for the better. But the potential is there and we should start doing something about it. The most important is image and mass representations we produce.

Remember the world is governed by the persuaders. If you can externalize on a mass scale your internal representations about human behavior about what is elegant, what is effective, what is positive, you can change the future directions of your community, your county, your world.

Sure, it is about maximizing your personal power, learning how to be effective and successful in what you try to do. But there is no value to being a sovereign of a dying planet. Everything we have talked about, the importance of agreement frames, the nature of rapport, the modeling of excellence, the syntax of success and all the rest, works best when it is used in a positive way that breeds success for others as well as for ourselves.

There is nothing in the world that will take the chip off one’s shoulder like a feeling of success. That is the real challenge of excellence, using these skills on a board level to empower ourselves and others in ways that are truly positive, in ways that generate massive, joyous, communal success.