“Talent can bring you success, but it takes character to keep it.”

–Seth Czerepak

Hey ! Welcome to the August issue of Genius in Leadership and the 21 Immutable laws of persuasion. Ok, so we’ve talked trance breaking and curiosity and now we move on to the third forbidden law of persuasion: hope. Why? Well, because a persuasion is dead without some kind of an action being taken as a result of the persuasion.
So many people attempt to persuade but fail to give their “target” some REASON to be persuaded. This means some kind of benefit. People simply do not make any investment …

How you like would to be able to speed read anyone and nail their personality within less than thirty seconds? You know, when I first started coaching a lot of my colleges actually used to make a joke of how easily I could read people. I kind of toned it down because I somehow acquired the nickname “Hannibal Lector”. No , I never bit anyone’s face off. 
Anyway, while I definitely spent years marinating in human behavior to learn this, I have managed to come up with a simple …

Ok , it’s time to work on breaking out of your comfort zone again. This is going to be a real challenge. But you’re up for it right? Ok, here is what you are going to do. Walk up to someone who you don’t know and just start talking to them as if you already know them. In fact, pretend that they are someone who you know and just start talking to them about whatever you would talk to that person about.
The point of this is that we have a …

You know , something that I have been teaching for years as a crucial principle of Value Driven Transcendence is that our perception of value builds as we invest in something. Whether it has true value or not doesn’t matter. Even been in a bad relationship that you just couldn’t let go of simply because you had too much invested in it? Or what about that beat up old car that you used to drive that broke down all the time?
Why wouldn’t you get rid of it? Well, a lot …