Don't take the bait - the bait of someone's interest
Getting through to people - that’s been a major concern for years. Lately I’ve noticed that, these days, I’m taking it easy, and it’s been effective.
This isn’t my only approach. A couple of weeks ago, I went over 4 techniques for reaching people: drip drip drip, go for the gut, ask questions, and keep looking for more strategies.
Just now I’ve been listening to Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer vice president. He woke up, about 2 years ago, to what is going on and hasn’t stopped speaking out. I could hear the urgency in his voice - desperation, almost. He ended with a plea to all of us: speak out or the outcome is slavery.
Yes, the situation is very serious.
But my message, here, is, maybe it can help to: Calm down. Take it easy. Easy does it.
What I have for you here is not a new technique, but a warning. Often, with some people anyway, it helps to: GO SLOW. Don’t jump at the chance to tell everything to someone who, for example, watches a video or 2.
RELAX. Your task is to give a bit of information that fits. It’s up to the other person to take it, and hopefully come to questions that get them asking for more. You’re welcome, of course, after you send something, to follow up and ask what they think of it. In fact, following up is a great strategy.
About giving information that fits, I’ve found this important over and over. Someone injected mentioned having had the virus. I responded that it’s close to impossible for me to get it as I take ivermectin, which is way more effective than the injections. Ivermectin? He had never heard of it.
At that point, many of us give in to the temptation to go on and on. We know so very much. And whoever we’re talking to is likely to be shocked at the information we give, because they haven’t seen it on CNN, which they believe is a great news channel.
Again I say, GO SLOW. Offer a bit of information - just as the writer of a detective novel doesn’t solve the mystery all at once.
I sent the person who didn’t know about ivermectin a 15-minute video on its history. I sent it only, by the way, after checking that he was interested.
How was it possible, he asked when he called me a few days later, that CNN hadn’t covered it. CNN was usually so excellent. What could the reason be? How could it be explained? It made no sense.
I didn’t get into an argument about CNN. As for why he didn’t know of ivermectin, I said he was going to have to come to his own conclusions. I just care about facts. And I offered to send him one more fact - a recent study showing that ivermectin cuts the death rate by 92%. He was willing to take a look. I sent him 2 sources: one from Substack (2nd Smartest) and a second one.
I did mention some other stuff. But I didn’t sent 100 links.
I was - from my point of view, anyway - calm, easy-going. No arguing. Nothing heated. And I did not try to explain why CNN did not cover the amazing effectiveness of ivermectin. “The facts, nothing but the facts.” And I certainly did not even try to give anything like all the facts!
In my experience, flooding someone, overwhelming them, is an extremely common route to failure, in terms of reaching someone. Yes, some people - like those who dive into an icy lake in early spring, ice chunks floating all around - like being inundated with information they find shocking. On the other hand, a huge number of people inch their way into a lake, first just the toes, 5 minutes later the ankles.
Maybe when this person has had, slowly a bunch more info, and starts to be less enthusiastic about CNN, I will send him The NO TRUE NEWS Blues - a very different way of looking at the mainstream news. On top of everything, it’s light, fun - while also serious.
Can you remember failures in reaching people?
And what about successes in reaching people?
Posted September 20, 2022