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 becoming a beautiful pianist. Beginning piano students have a huge body of knowledge to learn-how to read music, hand position, tempo, foot pedals, where on the keyboard to place their hands. It takes lots and lots of effort to make a piece sound effortless. Students are not simply given a Beethoven Piano Sonata and expected to put it all together at once and play it.

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

For most, there's a lot of practice involved between beginning student and Beethoven sonata.

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

I think everything is powerful in its simplicity and when we start junking it up with too much complexity, that's when it goes awry.

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.

Even to this day I drill myself on the basics. Mastery of the simple details, the patterns, the embedded commands, the pacing, the leading. . . these are all ingredients that when combined become delicious persuasion.

So I started working to do that and I started to put those things together. But all of a sudden the more complex things just started happening.

The most profound things in the world are very simple. When you master the simple things, more and more you'll find the big things come together with ease.

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.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent clients 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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