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@VictorB02 @MilenaS @flowboy @Loba @Gianna thank you everyone, glad to have had such helpful responses for my first post! there's a lot to implement here notes to myself to summarise: believe in the message and the audience will feel that too, but you can't force insight (only influence). they'll resonate with the message if they're ready. influencing: persuasion - saying yes. tell a true story. ask unbiased questions. use certain techniques to make sure my inner and outer expressions align, visualise talking with confidence and the audience being inspired. I'll be checking out Influence by Cialdini and learning about coaching thanks again

following advice from the 4 hour work week: if there is someone out there that knows something, ask them! the direction i'm going with my life purpose means I will need to learn how to inspire people to take action and make a change to their lives in the direction of actualisation. while I know you can't change somebody, I know you can influence them. has anyone out there found a way (maybe a style of speaking, words you can use, the approach you take) that the majority of the time leads the listener to specifically have an aha moment or deep insight? i know this may be related to persuasion techniques and charisma (something I will be reading about) but might there be another way? and i know there will be manipulation techniques out there and, while I'll avoid using them, they are useful to know all the same. can you point me to any books? also, i want to take a more subtle approach to persuasion - I'm not a very pushy type, nor do I want to be. the medium for this will be some sort of weird hybrid of poetic sounding talking, coaching and counselling, writing and art! for now just imagine it's through conversation or speeches i will be contemplating this myself but in the meantime does anyone have any thoughts? i hope by looking for specific techniques I'm not glossing over something that is actually fairly obvious! thank you!