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Let me save u 10 minutes and get to the punchline.

"Eventually, it clicked, and I learned one of the bedrock principles of salesmanship: Whether you’re peddling long distance over the phone, Bibles door to door, or your own political candidacy on live national TV, it doesn’t matter what you’re selling—it matters how you make people feel. If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes. If you don’t, you could be selling a pill that reverses male-pattern baldness and makes you lose weight without exercise, and they’ll still turn you down flat."



> a pill that reverses male-pattern baldness and makes you lose weight without exercise

Sadly only one of these exists.


I asume that you mean only the weight loss pill exists? Would that be something like manjaro (inhibiting the desire to eat) or one of the few _actual_ metabolism boosters in existence (which all make you produce insane amounts of heat and have fairly high fatality rates -- not necessarily a bad thing given their other side effects)?

Assuming that's what you mean, reversing has spotty success, but prevention is easy for most men if you can tolerate the side effects. Just take your favorite testosterone-blocker.


I assume they were referring to semaglutide.


>If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes.

You could really generalize and say this is about relationships in general. If people leave interactions with you feeling good about themself, it will be a relationship they want to continue and grow.

And the ratio of good interactions to bad needs to be at least 5X (at least that's what the Gottman Institute found with romantic relationships)


My 10 minutes aren’t actually worth that much (and thus not worth saving). So for me it was fun to read the entire article.




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