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Persuasion Or Sneakiness?

A student of mine recently called me out on an example of presupposition I used wherein I used the relationship between a student and teacher to illustrate my point. She suggested (nicely) that maybe my use of the student/teacher relationship was a little sneaky and maybe I was trying to persuade my students.

It's kind of interesting in life how when people know that I'm an expert in persuasion; they assume I'm using my persuasions skills on them all the time. That's been something that I've struggled with my whole life. People actually say, 'Well, I don't know if I can really trust him, because, after all, he's one of the top persuasion experts.'

I've gotten used to this sort of thing, though at first I'll admit it upset me. People will believe what they want to believe.

I operate from a place of integrity and I'm just genuinely myself at all time. It has been a struggle to remain un-jaded. I tend not to have ulterior motives.

Ulterior is what lies beyond what is obvious, evident and apparent. This can be framed as negative, especially if the motive is deceptive or concealed, but ulterior motives don't have to be sneaky.

When an ulterior motive is supportive, I have no problem with that. An ulterior motive, in a sense, is behind the scenes. If I were to use skills to help people to stay involved with me, provided that I'm really giving them value, I find no problem with that whatsoever.

For my suspicious student, I would suggest that people find I'm providing value regardless of me attempting to install it or not. And you'll find the same is true for you.

This is sort of humorous to me and I just thought I'd show a little bit of what goes on in my mind and how I deal with unique problems I deal with all the time.

When I was younger, I'd often find myself asking the people I was studying under if they were using persuasion on me. I wanted to see how they made decisions.

This doesn't mean that I am attempting to persuade my students actively, though my intention, obviously, is to keep them in my program.

These are my intentions. And my intention is to help and help and help some more. As long as that is recognized then I feel really satisfied and I think this is something you might want to examine in your own life because it will be something that comes up from time to time and it's nice to have thought it through so that you know where you stand on it.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.

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