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Can I Guess What You Might Think?

Can I Guess What You Might Think?
[This is part of the series: 31 Persuasion Tips That I Learned From Scott Adams]

If I could guess what you might think – what you are thinking – that would be amazing, right?

It would probably even make you reflect that you and I consider things in the same way.But here is the awesome part.

If I do guess what you are thinking, and I guess wrong, you won’t dwell on it very much.

It’s nearly a win-win to give it a try.

Take this post for instance.

I shared a passage and said that after I read it, there was “one issue I had.”

Well, if you had the same issue too – the same thought that I did – you now identify a little bit more with me.

If you didn’t have the same thought as I did, you probably just read right over the passage and went on with your day, no harm done.

It happens to work.

And, if done right, can be incredibly effective.

Now I know what you are thinking.

You are still skeptical.

Just give it a try on your own, and try to spot it coming from others. You might be surprised how often it is being used, and how often you are falling for the technique.

PERSUASION TIP 11: Guess what people are thinking—at the very moment they think it—and call it out. If you are right, the subject bonds to you for being like-minded.
-Scott Adams, Win Bigly

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