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Direction Matters Too, Not Just Where You Are

Direction Matters Too, Not Just Where You Are

[This is part of the series: 31 Persuasion Tips That I Learned From Scott Adams]

Saying that direction matters is another way of saying that progress matters.

This progress makes more difference, in a psychological sense, than where you currently are.

How so?

Take my blogging as an example.

I would prefer to have a small blog with growing traffic to a large blog with shrinking traffic.

The same is probably true for all of us in regard to income.

I would prefer to have a small income with 10% growth to a large income falling by 10% per year.

It does not matter if things are good or bad – per se – it matters if they are getting better or worse.”

Or, said yet another way, flow is more important than stock.

PERSUASION TIP 8: People are more influenced by the direction of things than the current state of things.
-Scott Adams, Win Bigly

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