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Persuasion Tactics: Covert Psychology Strategies to Influence, Persuade, and Get Your Way (Without Manipulation)
When I was in third grade, a fitness craze swept the nation.
In hindsight, it must have been related to the appointment of Arnold
Schwarzenegger to the President’s Council on Fitness, and the country was
overly excited to have the Terminator in a position of actual authority. Of
course, this was before the Terminator became the Governator of California, but
I digress.
The reason I remember this so vividly was because my third grade teacher
wholeheartedly embraced the fitness craze and had our entire class run a mile
(1.6 kilometers) every day for a period of three months.
Corralling 30 hyper, obnoxious, and unofficially ADHD-diagnosed eight-year
olds was a tall order, especially for a purpose that we had no concept of. Fitness
to us as children was as abstract as a home mortgage, and we cared just as much
about it.
Leading a class of children to a hot track on days where it was up to 90 degrees
Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) could take some serious pleading, and in fact I
do remember some pleading on her behalf for the first few days.
Kids, not unlike adults, rarely react well to direct and forced persuasion. We’ll
go along grumbling and dragging our feet if we’re commanded to do something,
but sweetening the goal with other incentives is how society actually functions.
In other words, finding motivation was key, lest my class unintentionally reenact
Lord of the Flies.
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