How to persuade anyone

Persuasion power can help you have more of the things you want faster than anything else you do

It can mean a difference between success and failure. It can guarantee you progress and enable you to use all of your other skills and abilities at the very highest level. Your persuasion power will earn you the support of others.

Now you have two choices, either you persuade others to help you or you can be persuaded by others to help them. Most people are not aware that every human interaction involves a complex process of persuasion and influence, and being unaware they usually the ones being persuaded to help others rather than the ones doing the persuading.

The key to persuasion is motivation. Every human action is motivated by something. Your job is to find out what motivates other people, the reasons, and then to provide that motivation. People have two major motivations a) the desire for gain and b) the fear of loss.

The desire for gain motivates people to want to do more of the things that they value in life. They want more money, more success, more respect etc. Human wants are limited only by individual imagination. No matter how much someone has, he or she wants more and more, When you can show a person how she or he can get more of the things he or she wants by helping you to achieve your goals, you can motivate them to act on your behalf. You need always to be thinking about how you can get people to want the things that you need them to do to attain your own personal objectives.

People are also motivated to act by fear of loss. This fear in all various forms, is often stronger than the desire of gain. People fear of financial loss, loss of health, anger, loss of anything that they’ve worked to accomplish.

Use dual motivation. Whenever you can show a person by doing what you them to do, they can avoid a loss of some kind, you can influence them to take a particular action.

There are two things you can do to put these ideas into action:

Before trying to convince someone for something, take a little time to think and ask questions to find out what it is that he/she really wants, then motivate them to act by showing them that you can help them to get it.

Remember, people are motivated for their reasons, not yours and you have to find what the reasons are before you try to persuade them of anything.