ITL297: How to Convince Someone to Change Their Ways
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we answer a listener's question on how to convince someone to change their behavior.
The concept of change is often misunderstood.
- There are 2 elements required to get someone to change:
- They need to understand the effect change will have in their life.
- They need proof beyond a reasonable doubt that change will help them.
- Society has 3 main misconceptions about change:
- It takes time to change.
- Someone has to want to change.
- Someone needs to hit rock bottom before they change.
The elements of change can be used in every area of your life.
- Knowing the 2 elements of change can help you in everything from sales to relationships.
Tune in to hear specific examples of these elements in action.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Thanks for being with us this week. Andy, how are you? |
| 0:20.2 | Good, David. How are you, man? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm doing very well. Matt and I are outstanding on this side. How is Matthew? Matt, are you there? |
| 0:27.6 | He's here. I'm here. Yeah, you can hear him shouting in the background. There you go. Yeah, he's doing great. Our team's doing great. We are obviously a few hundred |
| 0:40.7 | miles away from you, but always happy to be a part of In the Loop. So thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:48.4 | All right. We've got a, you know, the feedback we've been receiving, Andy, and you see this, you see a little bit of it, |
| 0:55.6 | because really there's a lot that comes in. |
| 0:58.4 | You're doing a lot of different things. |
| 1:00.5 | But the feedback that we receive from listeners to In the Loop is really a, it's just an encouragement. |
| 1:07.1 | And I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of the weekly listeners, the loyal listeners out there of In the Loop. |
| 1:15.2 | Not only are they with us every week, Andy, but it really feels like people are sharing this with their friends and their coworkers and people are finding value. |
| 1:24.9 | And so I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to our listeners. |
| 1:29.9 | Obviously, the show is not possible without you. |
| 1:33.3 | And we greatly appreciate all of the support that you give to Andy and to our entire team through this show. |
| 1:40.1 | So thanks for being here with us. |
| 1:41.9 | Andy, I know you really enjoy doing these episodes, but it's always nice to. |
| 1:47.5 | I really do. Yeah. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah, I do. |
| 1:48.9 | And I appreciate so much, people sharing them with their friends and turning them on to this and getting on that list where you get the email every Saturday. |
| 2:00.8 | And, you know, because without the listeners, Matt and David and I could just, like, go to a |
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