Sharpening your Influence (Jonathan Altfeld)

[madali]

Sharpening your Influence (Jonathan Altfeld)

Hooray, this seminar on influence did not make me want to shoot my brains out. Congratulations to Jonathan Altfeld.

The material he talks about is actually good. Not very WOW, but it is nice to listen to things that seem common sense, but such things always help you anyway. Basically, Jonathan talks about the way we can phrase our sentences and questions to be able to handle people’s objections to things. If you tell a friend to come out and they say they don’t have time, how can you change that to influence them to come? Is it that they do not have time, or they don’t feel like coming? If it is time, can you put it in a context for them? Can you tell them that they will regret not coming, in relation to the time they can use? Can we make the frame of the time bigger, making “not enough time” seem like nothing compared to the years available to him. And so forth.

Unfortunately, the audiobook is a recording of a seminar, and like all of these seminars, the presenters sound like such douches and the audience members are sound like douches and he stretches everything he teaches to milk maximum amount from the attendees, so I had to swim in a cesspool of douchary to find the crumbs I liked, but I’m now almost immune to the crappiness of a lot of these audiobooks, so I am able to grab what I want, and professionally dodge the rest like a true ninja.

3/5

[X.]

I am enjoying your reviews of self-improvement books and audiobooks; so keep posting them. That is not to say I trust such material, because from personal experience I've found the effect of self-help books similar to drinking booze -- it wears off after sometime.

For real change: get married or join a war. It will either kill you or make you a man. And isn't men what we want to be?

[madali]

I think I'd rather read abut getting married and joining a war.

[sulphurhead]

I think I'd rather read abut getting married and joining a war.

After 6 months of marriage I can tell you they're both the same thing

I think marriage for most people is a pretty personal and private thing, something they don't want to (risk) talking about publicly. Only a few brave, stealthy or stupid married men, and of course veterans might care to share.

[ozzylogic]

I think I'd rather read abut getting married and joining a war.

After 6 months of marriage I can tell you they're both the same thing

I think marriage for most people is a pretty personal and private thing, something they don't want to (risk) talking about publicly. Only a few brave, stealthy or stupid married men, and of course veterans might care to share.

Now I recall the gems you passed on to me yesterday

[theoddball]

I think I'd rather read abut getting married and joining a war.

After 6 months of marriage I can tell you they're both the same thing

Haha! Never before a truer thing has been said.

...and of course veterans might care to share.

Three words: Don't do it.