“Listen, nod, smile, and then go off and do whatever the f*%k you were gonna do!” ~ Robert Downey Jr.
Dear subscriber,
The topics I teach (persuasion, sales, negotiation, etc) are, on the one hand, very niche.
However, my Dear Watson, upon deeper consideration, one may discern their far-reaching applicability across a multitude of circumstances.
You see, in almost every interaction you have you are trying to get your way, achieve your objective, or further your cause, right?
Just nod and smile, Freckles.
Now, I wanna drive the following fact deep into your cranium:
Every single person regardless of their age has their own agenda. A newborn baby has its agenda – feed me, change me! A senior citizen at a nursing home has their agenda: Actually, it’s pretty much the same thing really. You know, full circle and all that.
Well anyway, the point is, we quickly learn that to get what we want, we must learn to intelligently negotiate instead of relying on our caveman instincts of “Me want, me take!”
You can witness this realization happening right before your eyes if you have kids. I’ll never forget when I saw my two-year-old son take a toy truck off another kid only to see the other slightly bigger kid deliver a right hook to my boy’s face. Got him real good, too!
It was the first time my son realized that not everyone’s on board with his master plan.
Priceless.
I’ve always said, the best teacher of all is Life.
Well, seeing I’m talking about family members, let me talk about my older brother and my mother for a moment.
Well, I excelled. I never argued with my mother, yet I always got my way. How is that possible? Simple: I took Rober Downey Jr.’s approach: nod, smile, and then go and do what you were going to do.
Deal with the blowback later.
It worked for me.
OK. So, we have two approaches to trying to get your way: (1) My brother’s “argue and argue and argue” method. Terrible idea. And (2) Papa Maverick and Robert Downey Jr.’s method. That’s better, but not ideal either. There’s always that annoying little thing called “consequences” that seems to come and bite you in the arse just when you think you’re in the clear.
So, obviously, you should avoid both of those methods of persuasion.
The best approach, of course, is to actually persuade someone to willingly give you what you want, and…
… Have Them Think it Was
All Their Idea!
Now that’s high-level persuasion, my friend, and that’s what a big chunk of the January issue covers.
Now, think of the last time you failed to persuade someone to your way of thinking or someone denied you a favor you were asking. It kinda sucks, doesn’t it? Perhaps if you had more persuasion tools in your belt, you would have got your way.
Maybe not.
Maybe you would have failed no matter how persuasive you were. That’s life. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you can be as smooth as silk and still get the big “L”. Yup, life many times has no rhyme or reason to it. And (and this biggest “and”) some people are just downright stupid.
That all said, whoever is lucky enough to read the January issue will be armed to the teeth with proven persuasion methods and secrets.
I mean, why not stack the odds in your favor, huh?
The more persuasive you become, the more of what you want can come!
If you’re curious about how these monthly issues work, step into my virtual office here: https://kelvindorsey.com/mavericks-inner-circle/
Your friend,
Kelvin
Email Marketing Maverick
