How Do You Get People to Share Your Enthusiasm?

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CNN's John Sutter talks to the author of a new book, "Frenzic" He says he tries to make people feel comfortable when they say no. The most common reason is that they don't have anything else coming up at the same time as what you're interested in doing. You can wear someone down to a stub by reading them their own work and making it seem like an actual finished project.

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."

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