Persuasion in Your Everyday Life

Persuasion in Your Everyday Life

When was the last time one of your children tried to get you to go watch the latest movie release, or buy them their favorite cereal? These gestures were their attempts at persuading you to do something that they wanted.

There are actually different methods of persuasion that can be used to get what you want and these include:

• Creating a need – use the person’s love of something

• Appealing to something which is popular or trending – social influence

• Using certain words or phrases – this is often referred to as using loaded words

While you definitely don’t want to start persuading your family to do things they don’t like or want to, you can use persuasive tactics when faced with objections. You could put your new skills into practice when your child doesn’t want to try a new food.

Or you could use your power of persuasion when they put up a fuss about going somewhere new. Start off by simply discovering what their objections are and then dismissing them in a logical manner one by one.