Keeping it Simple: Persuasion for Beginners

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."-Henry David Thoreau

My daughter, Victoria, is a pianist. As with any instrument, beginning students have to learn a complex body of knowledge before they are able to play an advanced composition. There's music theory, hand position, foot pedals, tempo. . .and then there are the intangibles, the depth of feeling and passion that make a piece what it is. You can't simply expect a beginning student to put it all together and play a Beethoven Piano Sonata.

Many advanced pianists learn complex pieces one hand at a time putting them together once a degree of fluency is learned in each.

Most people require hundreds of hours of practice from beginning student to Beethoven Piano Sonata.

Breaking things down to their element and practicing, practicing, practicing... that's the goal with learning anything, from the piano to persuasion.

Simplicity is powerful. Building on simplicity is how people become great.

There are many people in the world of persuasion who have not succeeded--trainers and teachers, speakers and students. I believe the reason they weren't able to succeed is because they didn't break things down to the simplest form and practice.

So what I started doing is going back to the real basics, to the real simple things and say, 'I've got to master this basic idea until I can do it in my sleep, blindfolded, when I'm exhausted, in the middle of my dreams, in the middle of my third dream, I want to do it that way.'

When I started getting back to the fundamentals a funny thing happened. . . more and more complex things just started to naturally and easily happen.

Well now I get it, and I'll tell you something, the most profound things in the world are that which are really simple. And when you get really good at it, the big things start coming together more and more.

Take a few moments and evaluate the core of what you're persuading people to do. What are the simple principles? Focus on these, and watch your results begin to climb.

Article Source: http://www.rightbiz.com

Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs unique public and private seminars and offers home study courses, audio/visual learning tools, and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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