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From: Blue Chip
Date: Wed Apr 9, 2003 12:33am
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] persuation skils (a genitic trait?)
>I have never failed a job interview or lost a competition in my life!
>Admitedly sometimes i didnt win the competion first attempt, but i never
>have lost the second time round. I found that even from the age of 4 i
>could manipulate people into giving me the prize and would watch their
>every move during the judging of the first compition to access exactly
>what impressed them and what would win the next time around! Even
>sub-contiously predict what theyd go for the following year when i
>re-entred. This started at the age of 4 with piano and colouring
>competitions and recently i won an artistic entrepreneur prize from a
>major bank in the city! Obviously if i dont think im talented enough to
>win a prize or con them, i dont enter. I always have used pacing and
>leading, anchoring, accessing cues etc.... i just never knew the correct
>terminology!
>
>I also have never lost a game of pass the parcel! I figered that if i sat
>and looked depressed and as if i were about to cry i'd win, since no
>parent wants a depressed kid at their childs party ( and the parents
>controlled the music!)
>
>The point is i've done this for as long as i remember, so is it a genetic
>thing?
Cool isn't it :-))
Nature? Nurture? Who knows! What we do know is that Bandler didn't work
this out on his own - he analysed people who were natually good at these
things and found a good way to word the commonalities he found.
It was from analysing the group of 'people like you' that he worked this
stuff out :)
