Welcome to today's episode of The Mindset Mentor Podcast, the Number One Mindset Podcast, the entire world. I'm your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode. Today, we're going to be talking about how to be more persuasive.

I'm going to talk about a powerful persuasion technique

that you can use in your life that will make you more of a powerful

communicator, we can say.

But you must promise me that with what I'm going to teach you,

that you will use it for good and don't use it for bad.

Because before we talk about how to be more persuasive let's talk about the word

persuasion because it can have a really bad connotation but it doesn't really have to

you know we are always trying to persuade people that is actually something that's very natural for a human you know if you look at a four year old a four year old is constantly trying to persuade you into something into giving them candy before dinner or letting them go outside when they

and play when they just took a bath or whatever it might be. It is very natural for

us to try to persuade, try to get somebody else to do what we want them to do or what we want

to do or to see our side of whatever our perspective is.

Persuasion, what it really is more than anything else.

It is just the art of helping other people understand

and hopefully embrace a new perspective in some sort of way. And so today we're going to talk about

this thing that's called, it's a psychological phenomenon that is called the anchoring effect.

And the anchoring effect, really what it refers to is the tendency for people to rely heavily on the first piece of information they receive and that information they receive

the first piece usually changes their decisions on anything else that comes after it based off of the first

thing that they learn about something which is the anchor that's why they call it

the anchoring effect and the effect significantly influences a person's judgment and

their behavior based off of the first thing that they learn.

So today we're going to talk about basically the psychological mechanisms

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