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701: How to Get People to Say Yes through the Power of Persuasion with Vanessa Bohns

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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When Should We Ask?

When we mindlessly just comply with a request, people's default is actually to say yes. We often don't have to put the kind of extraordinary effort we put into making those requests. People will write out this long winded emal laying out all these rationals for why they're asking someone for a favor and their friends re read it a thousand times. And so instead of negotiating ourselves down before we ask for something, we should really assume there's a good chance in get what i actually need or want. So i should ask for that before i start asking for less, before i even do the first ask yes.

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